New-York daily tribune., 1843-04-26

70 o officer, Of the State Prison Stag Sing e reference
was accidentally omitted
The RizI. OF Suffrage in this City-An hp-
peal 10 the State.
Prcsuming that the great maas OF the citizens
Of our State desire that their Government shall be
honestly constituted, and that the upright and m
dlstriMus citizens shall have at least an equal
.lare in It's direction with strangers, blacklegs and
fcons, VIC propose to make one earnest appeal 10
them IN the hope that they VIII discard al! party
considerations so Far rs to unite IN giving relief to
the now grossly wrongcd and abused legal voters
of New-York City.
Docs Ncw-Yorl need Registration OF Voters 2
We affirm that it does but, as this Is disputed,
we will adducc such evidence IN support OF our
position as must have weight with the Loco-foco
portion OF our citizens, not doubling that the
Wings arc already convinced.
why desire Registry for the City and not
fox the Country Z? IS often asked Now We do ""f
object to Registry for the Country. We believe
that Il universal Registration Of the Legal Voters
and final revision offle Lists PRIOR TO each Elcc-
tion. such as is now made in New hampshire
massachusetts aud other States, would be greatly
conducive to honesty and fairness IN Elections
But this is a matter OF which the State must Judge
We speak for the City, and cfthe City; and here
we believe the necessity OF Registry Is most obvi-
Gus, urgent, appalling Let us adduce some evil
dcncc on this head which Ioco-Foco cannot
gainsay.
In the State Election of 1888 this City went
for the Nhigs: the last time they ever did carry
it. The majority ranged from 200 TO l5oo; the
total vote, IN a most excited contest, was under
10000 or 5000 less than was cast in the late
Charter Election. Now, although the City had
poac for the Whigs at the three preceding cleo
,;ons. although the vote had increased hardly
! GOO from The less determined Spring contest !;
although the result here was in perfect harmony
with the popular feeling of the state as cvmced
IN that same Election, vet the Loco. Focos did not
hesitate 10 assert most positively and voccrously
that thea irers defeated by Fraudulent rot'ag-
that the decided Wing majority on all the candl-
dates was cheat, and that, bat for 'pipc-aylng
thcy would have carried the day And this state
,ncnt has been frequently and clamorously reitera
ted down to this dav Within month we have
heard Ely Moore (who ran lowest on his :mkct,
and was beaten some | 100 vs:esl declare that he
had a majority oI the legal votes cast IN that
Election.
Now we most undoubtingly believe all tins Ut
tcrly false we know that no shadow OF proof to
support it has been given Here were Steven
son, Glcntworth, and all the con'nvcrs OF The
Astounding Disclosures of 1910, with swear
crs at commands and yet not one OF them has
ever ycntured to assert on oath that five hundred
or even fifty, votes were cast by those whom they
stigmatizc as the Philadelphia Hcssians. They
say. indeed, that some twenty or thirty persons
came on here from Philadelphia that some OF
them were seen around the Polls bu, ,iat dozen
votes were cas-, bv the whole OF them no one has
yc, had the hardihood To swear ae 6eiiersd. The
men themselves swear that they Were told not
70 vote, but watch for aud detect illegal voters
from Philadelphia, and that they obeyed this M
junction.
But. leaving ont of view all the startling de-
vclopmcnts connected with subsequent Elections
the release Of City prisoners from b'ackwelt's
Island and bringing them down the night before
Election to vote in the most critical Nards-thc
habitual Colonization OF doubtu! Wards by
both partes-thc enormous increase OF votes al
the late Election particularly wherever Loco 70
coism specially needed an ncrcasc-thc circnm
stances connected with the Election OF ISIS are
conclusive The Ioco, Focos distinctly charge
that some 900 to 500 Illegal votes were then
cast IN this City without detection or hope OF re-
dress. We offer them as witnesses thai, IN The
absence of Registry, illegal votes nag be 50
thrown. Is mol their evidence conclusive =
Each party has IN turn charged the other with
,,r,6tino by gross frauds on the BaNoi-Bo1es.--
C,n any doubt remain that TIE OPPORTUNITY Tor
committing such frauds erists It's OF tins de
plorahle facility for perpstratng frauds 50 clearly
,,roved that VIC demand removal. Ought not
every homes. man and legal voter 10 unite with
us in securing II :
Bear IN ulind, Legal Voters OF every part OF the
State, tha, gotr rights are al stake as well as
ours. The same means that glvea Mayor nearly
5000 majority may intlict ON the State Gov,
ernment and Policy 10 which decided majority
Of lis citizens are utterly opposed In the same
way the II Electoral Votes may be thrown and a
President thereby elected in utter defiance OF The
Popular Viii Is this safe How could such
President administer the Government nSeiully
What rcspec, would be paid to his station and
authority What moral power would be welded
by his Administration
Remember, Loco Focos! that IL is not Hhigs
alone that complain OF these frauds. Your own
party solcnlnly aver that in most important con-
test the City was lost to them and You by illegal
votes. What has been may be again. The mis-
crean,s who would put in ten or twenty votes