New-York daily tribune., 1844-04-04

rnittee will be held at the Broadway House on FRIDAY
EVENING the 5th of April, Mt hall past O'clock
BY order, DAVID GRAHAM, Chairman.
G%nAn5Fs % X % %TAyroE }secretrries .,
JOHN l. LoRToN, > al
lF Whi9 Songs for S41 is the title ola large
compact collection of the best popular Songs OF time
which have just published in close neat pamphlet OF lt
pages the Of cents single 81 per hended
SIS per thousand We snail be happy TO send couple OF
copies as specimens Clay Club or Wing Journal Will
our friends be good to look at them and do farther
they think proper
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Our City-The Churter Elccti0n-Vhe Ma
tive Party.
We prefer to do one thing at time, SO far as
practicable and, feeling deep interest IN the
Connecticut contest, have not yet paid much at
tention to our approaching Charter Election
But now that the Connecticut battle is over and
the smoke clearing away, we shall turn our at
tention homeward, and we intend to take hold III
earnest II there be any Natives or Locos
who have imagined that we are only in fun in
our opposition to their respective parties, we think
they will soon perceive they have been mistaken.
We shall not war on their candidates person
ally. We detest scandal and the base means to
which Loco Focoism has resorted in Connecticut,
with such signal i'll success. Mr. Coddngton
and Mr.. Harper are each respectable men and
good citizens; the latter we may perhaps with
out presumption claim as a personal friend the
former we know and esteem. To neither OF them,
nor to their several partys Ward tickets do we
make any personal objection. 1t is to the princl-
piles on which they are respectively supported,
the oIjects which will be specially promoted by
the triumph ofether, that we entertain and shall
urge strenuous objections. Apart from these. either
would make a very good Mayer, though we think
hardly so good as, certainly not better thar,
MoRRIs franklin, whose experience in City AT
fairs is greater than that of either of his competl-
tors. But to their several principles we do cher
ish the most insuperable objections. Those of
Mr.. Coddington we are daily giving reasons Tor
opposing the Native tenets speak of less
frequently, since they do not come SO naturally
and frequently in review IN connexlon with the
events of the day. Yet in our mind Locofoco-
ism is not more hostile to Progress and the libe-
raj ideas which become our age-not more calcu
lated to foment and foster hatred, collisions and
heart-burnings among our Peope-not more promo
tive of Social discord and disorder in the country
than Nativism. In fact, our elemental objection
to the Jacobinism of the day, that 1t aims to cor
rect abuses by destruction, and not by creative,
Conservative Reform-that it vents its fury m
Discriminatory on things good and evil, aiming
to bury them in common ruln-that 1t tends to
weaken, not to increase, harmony, generous con-
6dence and mutual trust among men-applles
with equal force to Nativsm. 1t is a narrow,
proscriptive, intolerant spirit which cannot in the
nature of things survive the temporary excite
ment in which it took risc.
Does any reader demur TO this Ii so we ask
him not to take ou. wcrd for the principles of
Nativism, but to read the following official letter
of inquiry addressed to the candidates for its NOM
nations, setting forth the fact that their names
have been presented for consideration as candi-
dates, and proceeding to yoke and wiring them by
e1acting affirmative answers to the following
questions:
elected You will in your Official cpacity advocate and adj
here ,euonlousy the principles OF the American Reuo
2l That the individuals YOU appou, to Oss shall be
s,as. and be rm believers in The pf'nelpl- Of that party
honest capable deserving and Of coed and selected
ffi Of ths s' whHis Viii o; or Dtmoe@'ic Parties;
'9i That You will eudeavor bring about re-organiza
ton Of cur City Police. aad reduction of car City TX
sh win yOu If nominated, declare yOpssef The eandi
date of the American Republican Party Only =
1t is not deemed sufficient that the candidates
should adhere scrupulously to the principles O
the party-thcy must also pledge themselves tc
appoint to office none but natives of the United
States and firm beliepers in the principles of the
partv'-the latter condition, We apprchend, i
-scrupulously' adhered to,woud prove fatal to the
aspirations of most of the members of the party
and render its field Of selection for officers yer,
limited. Then all the Offices are TO be dividct
equally between the Wings and Locos who joir
in the foray, although the cne faction be thre
times more numerous and include men thre
times more capable than the other. If there ar
half dozen places to fill, and twenty cancl
dates to fill them, the appointing power must nc
consider which six OF them are most upright an
honorable, but which three Of each faction WI
best answer; ar if there be but three OF one sol
(Which, however, is not very likely TO happe
with the present Native' party those three WI
have to be appointed, though unfit, while doze
better men are competitors for the places An
even their own men will not answer unless the
expressly disclaim the support of any other party
But we have moi patience to dwell longer on thes
exhibitions of the serdid aims and narrow bigotr
Of this new party. Its incessant and savage a