New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-11-09
The Election and the Future.

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fully-throwing away the triumph which was 50
completely in our hands, and losing almost the
entire Wing ticket by some or 500 average ma
lority. A Senator for four years Is gone
| County Clerk and Coroner for three years WIN
all bat one Member of Assembly. we carry that
one with our Sheriff, who has decided majority
We might, if we pleased, exult over the reduc-
ton to 4 or 500 of the last Springs Loco-Foco
majority of $500 We might exult over the
valiant things the Wings have done, and the
trurnphs which surely await them. But we
shall do no such thing. The majority OF last
Spring was, tive-sixths of it, notorious paipabe
fraud, and amounted to nothing. There has been
for years only few hundreds against us here,
when the City was not on our side. Now the
chances were all in our favor. The Common
Council elected by the swindlng vote OF last
April had behaved so badly as to excite universal
disgust, and create formidable inveterate schism
in their own party. The Wings, as body, had
only 10 exercise moderate degree of energy and
common sense, and they would have swept the
I CITY, electing their whole ticket by Thousands
A part of them have chosen to do very differently,
and the result is defeat which we cannot but
consider disgracefu and injurious to the cause
Enough of the Past and now word tor the
Future We are within year OF the great Ere-
sidential contest. Meantime there Is to be a
Charter Election, and the born party styling
itself American Republican, is making great
calculations on so recruiting its ranks as to carry
that Election It may or may not do any thing
of the sort but it may be as well to give notice
that this paper, so far as it is OF party, Is WHIG
and cannot be drawn OF driven into any other
camp-certainly not before next November
We are not tenacious of party bonds CT party
names We seek Public Good by whatever means
NAV present themselves, and allow the same
liberty to Others But at the same time we have
little sympathy with those restless spirits who
must have new party as often as belle changes
her bonnet-who are eternally hankerlng after
some new misunderstanding after strange
gods-(the old Book expresses the idea more
forcibly)-and who, whenever any thing becomes
unpopular, must mount it as a hobby, to raise
dust with. The Wing party, for which we claim
neither infallibiity nor immaculate purity, IS
about as good one as we expect to find until the
world grows better. 1t is as American as we
want and as Republican, as any which makes
more noise about its Republicansm. We have
not yet found any party whose objects are more
comprehensive or benefcent, whose views are
more enlightened or practical, than that with
which we have hitherto acted whenever it has
been in the field.
And now, when we are on the eve Of the most
important Presidential Election-when every
thing smiles Oh our Cause-when we have raj
lied round Candidate who is emlnently beloved
and admired by one half the Country, and re-
garded with a proud respect by the other-a
Statesman who has served and honored our land
more than any other living, and whose Admins
tration may be confidently expected to highten
the Renown of our Land and the Prosperity of
its Peoples this time for the friends of such
candidate, opposed as he is by formidable and
vindictive adversaries, to dissolve then party
organization and enter into compacts with his
deadly foes to effect purposes entirely foreign
from the great result we aim at Can we fore
see or limit the consequences OF such move
1914 that we want to drive off few thousands
Let us think, then act. Rely on it, that If two
thirds of the new party are Loco-Focos, the mass
of the Adopted Citizens will some how be made
to believe that it is movement of the Wings.
For our part, we can know no associates III po-
litical action but those who are advocates OF the
election of Henry Clay and who are IN favor OF
those great distinctive Principles and Measures
| with which his name is indissoluby connected.
We have long standing regard for this sort, and
never learned to ask where they were born. We
see nothing but peril and probable disaster to the
Good Cause in the infusion into our ranks of the
new elements of acrimonious party strife embo-
died in this American movement. And beside,
there is no sort of excuse for it among Wings.
whatever there may be among Loco-Focos. Our
party is now based on genuine American princi-
pies, and devoted TO the maintenance of enduring
American interests. Let us let well alone
We CALL therefore, on the accredited organs of
the Wings of this City-upon the General Com
mittees-to take Immediate and energetic steps
lookins to the efficient organization and action of
the whole party with view to success III the ap'
preaching Presidential Election. Let US come
together in our Wards, perfect our organization,
chalk out our plans of operations, and take hold
in earnest to difuse information and gather
strength for the great impending struggle. live
do this promptly, zealously, unitedy, weshall give
our noble champion majority IN our City and
secure him the vote of our State if we let every
thing go at loose ends, and, as party, dabble in
all the local teuds which spring up around us, we
shall deserve defeat and probably secure it. Let
US fling broadly out the old banner, and call all
who are with us in heart 10 rally ropn6 " and ve