New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-12
The Election I'm New Orleans.

We have number 81 protests upon our table,
signed by our most respectable citizens, against
the wanton and outrageous dlsiranchlsement they
had 10 submit to on Monday last. They arc the
mementos OF as high.h handed and arbitrary Il pro
ceedng as ever petty tyranny Pcrpetrated for The
anna cement of mankind. Old citizens, natives
and others, were denied the right 10 exercise
franchise, which the very judges who turned them
away from the polls knew they had night to,
merely because the vote of one of the holders OF
4 fraudulent ELLIOTT certificate refused Just
II so, by Wing Judge. Ono whole Ward was
DISTINGUISHED in anticipation OF the lection OF
ELLIOTT cltizen-betore one OF these iraudulen,
and Illegal certificates was presented, the whole
Of that district was doomed
A repetition of such wanton violations Of the
rights OF legal voters will not and ought not to
he tolerated. There are times when patience
ceases tU be virtue-when torbearance, under
aggravated and repeated wrong, amounts to
surrender Of our dearest rights The law abiding
spirit of our people should not be an impunity TO
tyranny. In our vocation, it is fit that we coun.
sci peace and order and patience but we would
We sinnmg against our sense of right, our views
OF the hrmness with which bona fde Americas
citizens should support their franchises, were we
TO advise submission 10 such outragcs as were
enacted on Monday last. There must be an enc
10 such things.
The orderly and law-a5iding portion Of our
people have been threatened with draw. pins
and shillelahs before now, and resolutions.
couched in high-sounding terms, have been pro.
'nulgated at Loco. Foco meetings, menacng
those who should gainsay the right of foreigners
scarce a month old IN the country. to vote on
Judge Ell!ott's fraudulent certificates, with viz
ence and outrage. These have been considered
rather the ebultions of partv excitement than
evidence OF purpose to outrage the law. They
meant, however more than was attributed to
them. Though our citizens have not yet been
set upon with clubs and bludgeons, they have
been maltreated in particular equally as ohjec
tionabe-they have been defrauded of rights that
were guaranteed by the Constitution and law, for
which many of them and their forefathers fought
on the battle fields Of Liberty Are they to en-
durc such wrong always? Will they sub.n
TO such treatment for ever Is there to be 40
step put 10 outrage-no end to usurpation and
tyranny There Is something that whispers to
Us better things of the spirit OF the Republic
1t Is so easy matter Tor any foreigner claim.
ing 10 be citizen, under certificate of Judge
ELLIOTT, to obtain good, valid and indisputabIe
one. thai the perseverance Of these men in dis.
,urbing elections and throwing the community
into dangerous ferment, is without excuse.
Judge CARRIGAN, the successor of ELLIOTT. has
caused to be advertised in the newspapers Of the
city, that any persons who received certificates
from Judge ELLIOTT, entitled to be naturalized,
could, by making proper and legal proof of the
TACT, obtain new and lawful certificate, for so
Paitfy ana lnconslderabe fee, that those who