New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-10


Al 20 the recommendation OF greater safe
,n.urds to the secrecy of the Ballot, we have no
o.uence with it. There is not enc voter in
hundred who desires any secrecy absnt ii, and
that one is either cowardly hypoc'ite or pu'-
chased traitor. The secrecy Of the Ballo;, so
much iauded, covers frauds and treacheries. es-
pecially in our Town Elections, immense IN
msount and ruinous 10 public morals. Candi
dates for pety Offices (and often FOR those not so
5atty) are enabled to sell their ticket and elect
themselves by means OF this sec:ecy. AL man
nc. of frauds and corrup;ions are protected and
melted by it. And who knows an hoaest man
who ,rants 10 vote one way and have II uncer-
stood that he is voting the other? We know
none. Ard there is little secrecy ever observed
except by those who are conniving to cheat or
sc,ray. In our late Election, the Polk Ballots
had al! the picture Of Harp and a Hickory upon
them on purpose that they should be known
Blu, has the Governor no fears OF Ffaudu-
lent Voting and the facilities thereto afforded by
our iswsl No. whisper in all his fourteen
columns. The moTc Of that the better for MIN
and his party 60 we shall have no relief from 1t
this winter.
We come at last 10 speak of Mr. Wrights
remarks On National Politics That both he and
we rnay be fairly understood, we beg The reader 10
urn back to and consider the last five paragraphs
of his Message Then we desire him 10 answer
TO himself this question: Can the partisaus OF
Sis Wright beliepc him an honest man ~
With the intelligent among them We do moi think
II p.ssitIe. For do but consider his assertions
Seldom have the two great parties of the country auayed
taueve, distinctly the pncipes and OF
pury which divide them. more un-Gu,vccaly Shked the
result nsanal contest npnn the strength oi te Tepecufe
,.ii Great ses winch, heretofore. have been but
perfectly Joined sect,nay tired have been universally
The publ, ve. and known and acknowledged principles
q The lending Of The f B' y US e Thy
battle to be fought Those Candidates We're SUPPORTED
upon the principles and opinions which, Us statesmen iney had
moved und practsed.'
iar. Wright what are these great issues 80
unequvocally' presented aud universally re-
cognzed' in the lato contest Your frieods at
Washington assert positively That Teas was the
main question. But you voted at Washington
against Texas, canvassed in New York against
Texas, and carried New.York on the strength of
YOUR opposition TO Texas. The Convention that
nominated you was very careful not 10 name
io1as at al Your convenient comics, the Biz
ncyitss, kept up T. clamos that there was no es.
sent.al difference between Clay and Polk on this
subject, and SO led off Fifteen Thousand Anti
Texas voters and gave you the victory AMI on
this distinct unequivocal,' universally rccog-
nized' issue you triumphed, aud Texas is now TO
be pitched into the Union
Or was The Tariff one of these great issues
so lucidly presented You, Silas Wright! did
all that onc man of perverse and subtle ingenuity
could do to mysify and obscure it You voted
Tor the passage OF the present Tariff, though you
mad Just made characteristic speech against 1t :;
and u State Convention Of your party formally
approved your vote, saying nothing OF your
speech. Wherever the Tariff vas popular, there
your partsans said, We are for the Tariff, Sllas
Wright voted for it and passed it." la Pennsgl-
yania, your Honorables did not blush to assure
the People that Polk is morc Tariff mjn
than Claw" and their followers and presses bra
zcncd it out through the whole campaign. Your
Watertown Speech was expressly and adrotly
calculated 10 give the impression that there was
no principle or clear ground of difference on the
Tariff ut issue between the paries. And yet
you tell US that the great issues" " heretofore
but impertectly joined, or sectionally tried,
have now been universally recog niSed as pre-.
senting controlling questions in the canvass"
No, Mr. Wright, it was by cheating us out OF
these great Issues and lighting your battles
through your scavengers by personal attacks on
Mr.. Clay aud the base calumnits founded On the
Ciey Duel, that you obtained good votes enough
to enable your foul ones to ove-power us Let
us see the end before we rsshly pronounce yours
a rca! success.
There is GOODNESS in asking, on The strength
of such u victory, that the Wings shall allow the
whole policy of the Government to be consider
ed settled permanently on a strictly Loco Foco
basis, which must excite admiration. When in
1910 we carried every branch OF the Government
and nineteen of the twenty. six States, by thrice
as great popular majority, did Mr. Wright and
his friends surrender every thipg 10 US No!
not even the Sub Treasury They fought us on
every point to the last moment, and when Mr..
Wright voted for the Tariff on its final passage,
afer resisting it al every previous STAGE he did it
avowedly because the Government must have
Revenue, and not because the Wings should
bear sway.
Yet we doubt not Mr. Folks friends in the next
Congress will have full power to frame their own
bills and pass them aud if they have indeed
as Mr.. w. unqaaiiedly asserts" inte!ligibIy
defined" hep.incipie on which the Tariff is TO he
adjusted, they will OF course be unanimous in
conforming the law to that principle. If the
Country has really voted for Annexation Qhough
the Message is careful moi TO name or in any way
distinctly allude to Tcxasl she will be brought
into the Union Then with the Sub Treasury rees-
tablishsd and the Public Lands withheld from the
States to becoms the prey of spectators at twen-
ty.fvc cents an acre, we shall sec L3co.Foco;sm
fairly launched on its career of triumph AID glory.
But, MIR. Governor you must give us leave 10
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