The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-12-03
Bishop Observation-Disclosures of II Third
Party ia New York.

In looking over the returns of the late election
in New York, it has doubtless been matter OF
surprise to many that, whilst in every county in
the state the democratic gain has been immense,
in the city Of New York, where the democrats had
nearly always succeeded by large majority, they
have this year been able to elect only par, of
their ticket. Surprising as this result certainly is
brief explanation Of the matter will show that
the unhallowed means BY which it was brought
about are still more extraordinary and surprising
and such as to attract the attention Of every friend
OF our free institutions.
For the las. year or two dispute has been kept
up in New York city between the Catholics and
those who are not Catholics in relation to the
manner Of distributing the common school funds
OF the city, the former, who it appeals have their
children educated in schools TO which those of
Catholic parents only are admitted, Contcud!ng
that raiablc proportion should be expended Oh
those schools, and the latter opposing this claim,
mainly on the ground, We believe, that the law
authorizes no such distribution Of those funds, bu,
requires the whole to be expended on the schools
created under tho general school law, to which
all sects are indscriminatey admitted. This dis
pute, like all others in which religious secs come
in collision carried on with great heat on both
sides, and each party seemed determined not to
yield an inch to the last. "As to which side was
in the right, or which in the wrong, we have no.
thing to say that remains to be decided by the
New York legislature: but agains, the infamous
purpose to which this dispute has been made sub
seryicnt, we feel it our duty to cxclaim.
For some months before the late election in n
York it became apparent that the wings would be
defeated, in which event that notorious clique OF
political gamestcrs, Thurlow Weed & Co., whose
-high-handed proceedings under the Seward dynas-
ty have almost ruined that state, knew there would
be an end to their infamous practices, unless by
some means or other they could retain the wing
ascendancy in the senate. With that, tho Exc
cu,iyc would still have been able to dismiss juds.
cs from office without the form of trial, and the
state printer Weed, who was appointed for four
years by special law which, had the wings been
able to retain the senate could not be repealed -
would still be able to hold on to his SO, 900 per.
quistc per annum. The only way in which this
object could Big effected, this clique knew, would
be to defeat the democratic senatorial candidates
in New York City. Accordingly Weed was des.
patched to the city, and after doing all in his pow,
er to raise the school fund excitement to its high.
est pitch, had a meeting OF Catholics called at
Carroll lIall-prevailed upon Bishop Hughes,
who is wing, so far to forget his Tod and rel.
gion as to attend this meeting and haranguc it,
.pnd then got this meeting TO nominate third
ticket, placing upon it all the democratic eondi.
dates for assembly but three, to DECEIVE the demo.
cratic Catholics as to the real object OF the move
Ingenious and well.contriycd as was this "Ias
card Of the Seward clique, no sooner had the
amazcmcnt created by the annuncia,ion that TO-
iisious sect had entered the political arena in some
measure subsidcd, than the origin and object of
the move became a, once apparent aud the result