New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-19
aspec,s and Prospects.

The Wing Primary Elections IN our City
Yesterday were quiet, regular and harmon
ious in some Wards, while in others they
were signalized by scenes of disgraoeful
fraud, rioting and disorder. Those of the
With and XVIth Wards especially, as
represented to us by many intelligent eye
witnesses, were the grossest farces, no more
indicative Of the preference Of the Wings
of those Wards than riot in Japan would
be. A friend who was in the room at the
With Ward throughout the meeting said
he never heard an Ineligible sentence
heard no question put at any time and Is
certain that no expression of opinion by
those present was given-not to dwell on
the fact that, while the LocoFocos Of other
Wards were largely represented in the
room, not half the Wings in attendance
could get into it at all, possession having
been taken before the hour designated for
assembling. OF course, if those who pack
She room may return a Delegate in this
manner, the whole business of electing
Delegates becomes simply trial of strength
and cunning, wherein the most uuscrupu
Ious are sure to come out winners. We
trust that in every instance where no fair
expression was permitted, q new election
will be ordered by the appropriate Commit
tee, and measures taken to secure every
Whig who may attend an equal voice in the
selection. In most of the Districts, how
ever, we think the elections were pretty
fairly conducted and the results are received
with general acquiescence.
One element Of discord was evolved in
the elections of yesterday which should not
pass un1ebuked. At several polls, clamor
was kept up against Seward and Seward
lem, as if our Wing Senator had been an
aspirant to the Govornorship or some other
rost now to be flled, and determination
was avowed to exclude from the State Con-
vention all who were supposed to entertain
views generally acoordant with his. 1t was
very plainly set forth that some consure,
express or implied, of his Senatorial ca
reer was to be elected from the Convention,
and a broad line was sought to be drawn
between his friends and those of Mr.. Clay
and Of the National Administration.
TIE unwisdom Of this course must be
obvious to the mos. casual observer. The
pn;on of our common adyersaries renders
like union of all the Wings of our State an
indispensable condition of success; and the
exclusion frem our councils and our fellow
shin of a much smaller body than the friends
of Gov. Seward would be fatal to all ration.
oil hopes Of triumph. But more: there is no
need of this exclusion, no excuse for it but
the sheerest aud stGpidest personal malis'
nifty. Hogarth's Humors of an Election
wherein reckless fellow is eagerly saving
OFF the beam on which be is supported many
feet from the ground, with palpable GER
sainty of breaking his neck in the fall when
he shall have finished the job, is fair illus
iration of the policy which impels this CRU
SADIE against Gov. Sewsrd.
It was lesson in human pliability to
see those who were foremost not only in adj
yooating Gen, Taylor for President but in
claiming the largest and most enviable sta
lions as the reward Of such advocacy, now
seeking to compass their ends by invoking
the Justly potent name CT Henry Clay, and
denouncing (by proxy Gov. Seward for
having acted with themselves in the springof
'4s. Ifthere were no fools in the world, the
and ductilisy Of the shrewd could
not be halfso strikingly demonstrated
We have disagreed with Gov. Seward as
10 the best course to be taken this Summer
with regard TO the Slavery and Territorial
questions, We have seen that what we
would do If we could was impraoticable-
HAT a compromise Of some kind was inev'
issble-and it has seemed to us the clear
dictate Of Craftsmanship and Patriotism to
sadsavor to mold and control that Compro-
mise rather than fruitlessly and perhaps
aisastrously to resist it, Many others, at
least as capable of judging, have dissented
from this view-among them Gov. Seward
holding that there was no safe nor wise
course but TO resist sll sttempts to organ