New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-04-14

late Session Of the Legislature, sec Last
Page.
Enormous Frand and Wronx-tsHrpntion
Of ikc Government OF the City
We announce. with sorrow and Indignation
tia, the Loco-Foco oice!o!dcrs of his city. fairly
and d.cisiycI,- beaten in the Election on Tuesday
have rcsolved TO uSurp tie Gorernmsnt Of Tie
CRY and. by .torcc and fraud. perpetnatc Meir
=y0lc for Ms cnsuio . year in defiance Of the
die, OF the People This i, their deliberate; rur-
pose whe,!.er they willcarry it intn full effect
depends on the iirmness and energy of indignant
resistance with winch will be me; By the outraged
Free:ncn Of New York.
From the very moment that thcirdcfcat became
known, this ncf1riou5 plot appears to have been
resolved on. Their first stand was made on the
return in tue Sixteenth Ward, where ,llcy deter
mined to deprive Alderman Wcs, Of lo9 voics on
the absurdy frivolous preteSt that the. were
printed " tildc,maa-EDwARn D. VEST, in
stead For Adernan" ard 50 of the other
candidates. W. haze been informed that MAJOR
lIo1r5& 7caS consulted ruth regard to=AiS base
c0at5ivaBce before dayiicht yes.erday morniac.
alsa=taat 1c dscilea Il ro4ld anSmer.
B1t TIM. llnssn been abandoned on discover
iTg iha, the Ziidcrmen OF tho Sixteenth alon e
would not save thc'n, and the conspra,ori have
struck ut highc, game They haze wantonly de-
prscea the ltlttg A!dcrmanof tie E1rbas Ward
ellis ,etul7. in the face of clear ma iorty of
the votes, after they had enormously coonized the
Ward, and they have Determined TO sci aside ami
Gan1S7 tie FIecti0u IN tie Sigth Ward oltoscthcr.
81. thus doing they p.rpose to hold new EIcc-
ton. c'iIcc their defeat of Tuesday, driliin their
warsing factions to the support OF single ticket
and elect 1t ,ousing Messrs CRoLlrs and A1wELL
from the seats in the Council to which the People
have beyond all cuyiI elected them Such is the
Democracy which nov misrucs and plumber.
New-lo rk. and threatens nov to rulebv opcntorcc
when the deiusion Of the ignorant is no longer
available
4; regards the Eighth Ward, tho case lies in d;
nutshell No man can deny that SYLvASus GED-
:gY has rece wed majority 81 the votes cast for
Alderman. There was no split lcre-no third
party or ticket, but fair, hand ,o-hand contest
Tie Ward was most atrociously colonzed by Loco
Locos from the Niuh easily bo from
the diminished Loco-to co vote i'll that Ward
How, then ca,. they dare to set at defiance the
Peoples decree! In this way: They had com
,nenced by printing their dollosS on c0lore@
and checked paper, which could not be i'm
ira,cd, in order that they might prevent any OF
their Corporation and other dependents from vo,
lur the Wing ticket. This net is in Itself fla
CRAM ol,ragc-;l violation Of the constitutional
guaranty Of the secrecy of the ballot, y portlono!
their srrfs were thus drivcnn,o suppro, the party;
Eut others procured these ballots and voted them
with the ,mmr. OF the Wing candidates. plainly
written on a piece of thin paper and pasted over
those of the Loco-f'oco candidates. These bal
lots. about tho intention and character of which
there can be no mistake, have been rejected By
the Loco-Foco canvasscrs.= and Mcir o7cn randi
dates thus declared elected. WHO will Justify
this outrageous decision
So in the Sixth Ward: The Wing candidates
are elected by a decisive ma oriiy-ther, can lie
no dispute of tiiat.Zl}ut was kicked up be-
tween two par1ics of Loco-Foco roWdcs ahou,
the close OF the poll, and this is to be made a pre-
text for setting aside the Election altogchcr.-
The specific excuse is az follows
IT will be rccollec,cd thai, the Wings have no
Inspectors or other officers of Elections, except
one SUCH Inspector us 1-cCo-''N"'S"' !"
- call a Wing and pu, an act OF special grace
in each District, We elected one Inspector of
our ow,. choice in every District and two in good
Znoct Of them. but these TUNED out by the
,,pcal of the Registry Act, and the appointment,
of INSPECTORS given unrescrvediy to the Common
Co;:uc. Now the Inspectors of the first District
IN the Sixth Ward we're interrupted after tho close
oi Tho poll and jus, they were beginning to
count, the MAYER votes by the furious attack of
PARTY |. mad rutlianS on the Sixth Ward Hotel,
in (which they were. They fed. leaving the Mayor
votes sc:ttcrcd thertable but the II ard box
unopened. They returned soon after, found no
appearance of any having been in the room,
though the Nayor votes had been struck bv u
stone thrown through the window and scattcrcl,
while the Ward box remained untouched. They
proceeded to canvass; the tickets outnumbcrcd
the names on The loll-s, by three, (by no means
unusual \ and VIC hear that Mr.. Henry Worrall
the Tam,nany-,naic Wing Inspector declined to
sign the return the ground that considering
how the ballotbox had been abandoned and left
ho could not stcear,ha the return exhibited true
s4tement of the actually caSt,=though he Dc
licrsG it did. And this is to be made a prctext
ior setting aside the Election in that ward
Now it is most pulpabl', that if defective re-
turn IN ore District can be held to vtiae the Elcc
ton in the Ward it vi,ia,cs that OF the City also ;
chosen Aldcrlncn Of the Sixth then Mr.. MoRsls
IS no, chosen Mayor OF the City. ia Ward Elsc-
ton IS viliatcd By Dis,yc, irreguar,v YOU can