New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-12
Let us Reason Together


mes, inquiry of thousands Of our citizens. There
hardly be doubt that If all our legal voters who
condenn the Texas iniguity and arc averse 10 the
restoration OF TammaRy rule could cast 'her votes
for the game tickets in their respective Wards the
resuI, wculd be an overwhelming Wing triumph |
And vet the prospec, s that, through the division
induced by Nativisrn, our adversares VIII reap oil
the substantial fruits OF victory.
By whose fault comes this! On every sac we
are met by lugubneus Natives, 1--WE don't Know me
salaries of some of them under the Corpofa'ion')
lamenting the infatuation Of those hard-heaf'eo
Wings who, as they represent 1t, arc oehl on sur
rendering the City 10 Tammany RUE. Lev u 'o'-
slider the matter:
Two years ago, the Wings OF our Ciy "eie
united, harmonious party, with clearly 'e"N7',
well known principles, struggling Tor common anu
cherished objects They were baby ne,'' IL, !" '.
Charter Election uSl3) by the most Paipaole ana
astounding frauds Our adversarles came INTO pow
., and soon fell into fierce quarrel about the dlvi-
mon Of the plumber. The native Loco-f ocos COM
claimed that their Irish conpariots obtained an I'M
due proportion of the Offices, and on Inns GROUND
many of them seeded from Tanmany and started
a new party, which they christened American he-
pnbican' This Loco-Foco split was originally |
about 5000 strong. il we Wings had had VIII
enough 10 lust let them alone they would inevita-
bly have been driven over TO is--lats, sreatpafl
of them would-for they had not force enough oil
themselves TO form party that would stand, ana
they were cast out OF Tammany. But part OF ouI
Wings were wise enough TO JON them, swelling
their first vote Gall Of i3) to 5000, and IN the
Spring these urgently appealed TO their late brethren
10 no with them and elect Harper and Native
n Il IL. .pI
anti ammany Inspectors and so TAR vote IN the
Fall; you secure, moreover, the future coopera-
ton of the 5000 Native seceders from Iammany,
'and SO an overwhelming majority Tor Clay IN NO
tvemberr We did not believe these representa-
tons, but large majority OF the Wings dtd pull
faith In them, and 50 elected Harper " Co. by an
overwhelming majority. The City ''"vern'neh'
was .r;atiye' all over. And ono surrender con-
PEELED another in the Fall, the same necessityre
cured 'You must vote Native nor, we were
told or your good .natured aid last Spring will avail
nothing Your ticket can't possibly be elected, but
you can put in the Native, and thus secure all The
Native votes for Clay, and Legislature that will
give YOU two Tariff, Ant-Texas U. S. Senators =
Noc there was no help for it, and nearly all OF us,
hating Nativsm like poison, shut eyes and
swallowed the Native ticket to elect Clay and keep
y out Texas.
Ia VIVA, was the result Is it not written on the
59heart of every Wing Some Of the very office
y holders under this Native Council that Wings had
elected were seen hauling up voters for Polk and
Dallas Clay was badly and Fillmore shameiuy
beaten in the City-far worse than they could have
been if Nativism had never been thought OF
while, all over the Stale, Adopted Citizens by
hundreds and thousands were turned against us by
o.. Of Natiy
In Eric, oswego, st. Lawrence, Lewis, Citation,
Tiosa, and many other Counties, our loss this
account was most disastrous Now look at the to-
tai vote of this City:
Senator Goreuoy Electors
whigSNavc. Loco Fillmore Wright Clay as: Polk Nh;
MAJ ramny s45. Do. Wright. S,5lo, Do.Polk 1917
Here we see that nearly 1000 of the Natives,
whose tickets we were s,raining every nerve 10
elect, were themselves going the whole hog for
Polk and Dallas, while over $500 OF them voted
for Wright and the rest of the Regency State
Ticket! And this when the very highest vote cast
for the regular Wing Ticket was under 1000
While our General and Ward Committees were
distributing none but Native County ballots, the
Natives were dealing ont Clay and Polk Electoral
and State tickets with oStentatious impartiaty
and Some of them, on an understanding with their
old cropies, were pushing in Wright State tickets
with practjced adroitness Wright went gu, OF the
City at least 1000 farther ahead than he could have
done if we had had fair play. Nativlsm took three
of the four congressman, the Senator and Assem-
bly,, and left us-a chance TO be fooled so again, ii
we like il But is it no, a little too soon TO be
done again this Spring!
- But says Native iunctonary this is plain,
that if Selden and Harper both run, the LocoF ocos
will carry every thing Well, gentlemen, whose
fault will that bel We oldlne Wings stand Just
where we did when you with us-you will
find us by nquiring where you LETT us, Do you
wan, to harmonic on fair termsl II yes, so do
we But il must be on grounds wherein are
agreed not those whereon we are al variance,
Suppose you had got up II Presbyterian or a Unita-
nan party could YOU reasonably ask 10 ION You
ON that platform in order te keep out the Tammauy
party from powerl Here are certain great prnci-
pies of public policy on which we think ahke-we
arc ready 10 unite with you on these, and advance
with locked shields 10 victory. But how can You
ask us to unite with you on principles whereon We
are NOT agreed-whch we believe wrong and IN
furious 10 the peace of Society and the best inter
csis of the Country! We tell YOU, men, that
victory is TO be gained not by narrowing but b.
widening the platform which we 10 stand.
Give us u creed so broad and hhsr~l 'lIaT we can
all heartily unite III 1t. and we are with you Bat
we cannot be driven into seeming sanction oil
principles which we cannot assent 10, Are we
unreasonable in this? Judge.
One word now, 10 those who honestly desire
Reform OF Naturalization abuses, and do mol
take up the cry for the sake OF Office. We are
ready to unite heartily in support OF any practical
measures having for their single object the coueo
ton of these abuses; but we insist that This can
never be effected by party with one idea, and
ima,ed by such Spirit as that of the Natives
Nativism Is no new thing has been Tried, off and
on, these ten years, aud has never effected any
thing beyond putting few noisy patriots into Office
1t has been tried in 81 Louis, in New-orleans and
other cities, before It's last outbreak here but
proved taking in the country. l, once elected a
aIauor In Nan, OrlnnnS hut Iii nothinr 70 rrsNenf