The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-30

tegrty, honesty, and patriotism OF the mass of the
people, these political Rob Roys may be well |
assured; and the sophistical malignant, and out
rageous ISLANDERS upon the sincerity and conserva-
tive spirit Of our people, will yet prove elements
for the destruction Of this mischievous pest to !
sociey-ths Fourierte, socialist, abolitonis wing
and pudding stone in politics-ths head of the
party of "scrupuous respect for the rights of other
countries, and very front Of the faction of unscru
pulous disregard for his own country and country
men, His agitation il one that costs him much,
and those who disposed to encourage his black
mail system, may give all due heed to the hint,
Sc "MoNEY MAY BE SENT THROUGH TIE Posi-
OFFICE AT THE RISK OF THE PUBLISHERS"
The PRIMARY MEETINGS = HORRIBLE De-
vELopEMENTs OF BRIBEnY, CORRUPTION, AND
FRAUD.-The primary elections in this city, for the
last few years, have developed a sum total of bnb-
cry and fraud which, if exhibited to public view,
would strike the world with amazement and hor-
ror. Occasionally, when disappointment and cha.
grin make men leaky, or when objects of pecunery
interest or personal ambition are to be served, a
corner of the curtain is maliciously raised and we
get glimpse of what is behind but, as general
rule, the wire-pucrs and agents in this ncfarous
wickedResss manage to conceal the proofs of their
guilt that nothing appears upon the surface of the
| stsgnant pond Of corruption but the results, and
! the community at large can only guess that some
thing is rotten beneath from the kind of men that
are thrown up. Now and then, however, the
naked vainy is revealed, and from such speci-
mems we are enabled to form pretty accurate
idea of the whole. The iniquity is not confined to
either of the two great factens which alternately
divide the spoils. Itpervades and ramifes through
the whole system of primary elections and nomi-
nations, both wing and democratic The wings
generally keep their own counsel better, but il is
notorious that they are just as deep in the mire as
their antagonists Never, in any former year, did
such amount of electioneering rascality exhibit
itself as during the present fall II has saked all
over the city like "the pestilence that walketh in
MONDAY"
The revelations made at the Congressional mass
meeting of the Fourth district, on Monday after
noon, in Madison street, and reported in yester-
days Herald alone, of all the city papers, are but
samples of every district and ward in the city,
and this humating confession was made by some
of the le aders themselves, who let the cat ont of
the bag, not perhaps 80 much from the promptln5s
of patriotism, from the desire to take down some
man who stood in their way, and to set up in his
stead another, not one iota better. There is an old
adage that "when rogues fall out, honest men come
by their own" or, at all events, they find ont who
| the rogues are, and can thus better protect them
selves from future depredaons. If they fail to do
| 60 the fault is their own, and they deserve TO be
plundered.
1t iea fixed fact, well established and known to
every man who has eyes to see and ears TO hear,
that the merchants, storekeepers and other re-
spectacle citizens are driven from the primary
elections, which are left in the hands Of the cor
! L. Tha rboIa ,ach ia
moved by the almighty dollar, and hired DULLES do
the dirty work, for which they are paid. Decent
men will not come INTO contact with them to gain
mere political victory, and the consequence is,
that they "rule the roast" with high hand The
most worthless characters, with exceptions, like
angels visits, few and far between, receive the
nominations, because they are able and willing to
eIpend money in paying rowdies and lighting men
to surround the ballot box, and allow only those
tickets to be polled which they know TO bear the
names OF their PaymastsrsJ and these men get
| themselves thus nominated that they may turn
every dollar they expend into ten or twenty dollars
| by bleeding the candidate for Congress, Assembly,
Msyoraly, Common Council, head of a city de-
parmept, any other Office in the gift Of the peo
pie. The nomination being once obtained, the rat-
fcation meeting is managed by the same agencies;
and the citizens who pay the taxes are driven
away from it. The electors, according TO the
usages Of the party" vote for the caud-
date thus nominated, and thus ratified, like
flock of sheep folio wing bell wether
and if he is elected, by way Of showing his
gratitude TO, the people, he plumbers them, not
only by rembursng himself for what his fraudulent
election cost him, but adding interest upon interest,
through dishonest contracts, and 4 thousand other
means.
Thus the round of wckedness goes on fromyear
TO year, and the people are feeeed under the de-
fusion that they hone patriots, and are serving
their party by voting for good wing, or good
Democrat Hence ignorance, incapaoity, blunjer-
ing of every description, the most disgracefu
neglect, and the most criminal fraud, sit in the
high places of the city government, the State
! Legislature, and the federal Congress; and the
party newspapers, who profess to be the watchful
guardians of the people, are like "dumb dogs
which cannot bark" because they are afraid of
each other. Conscious that those who live in glass
houses cannot safely throw s,ones both the whig
and the democratic organs shrink alike from ex-
posing the turpitude Of the faction leaders, either
on their own or the other side, and accordingly the
evil is allow ed to accumulate from time TO time.
There many good men Of the two great po-
liucal sections, who are beginning TO and to
feel the terrible realities of this system, and are
trembling for the consequences. They are medi-
eating upon the mode ard means OF overthrowing
II, but they have not yet put their thoughts in any
tangible shape. We would suggest that a noble
opportunity presents itself this evening at the great
Union meeting, to make beginning, for one blow
struck there would be half the battle. Let rcso-
luton to the purpose he drawn up and offered, de-
nouncing primary meetings in toto, and there is not
the shadow Of doubt that il will be carried by
the assembled people. Something must be done,
and that soon, 10 stem the tide Of political iniquty
that ads the land and threatens 10 engulph
the dearest rights of free9en, togetherwh the glo
rous constitution itself"the envy Of surrounding
nations, and the admiration Of The world"