The southern press., 1850-11-04
New York Politics.

New York Politics
We take the following description of New
York city politics from the Herald 1t is sar-
castle commentary on the virtue the intelligence
and the moral of the people, where so mary
of the sovereigns are crowded together in
Southern politicians, who can see no symptoms
of greatness or wealth in State, except in
commerce, manufactures and large towns.
THE PRIMARY MEETNGs-HoRRIBLE DEyEL-
oPEmENTs OF BRIBERY, CoRRUPTIoN, AND FRAUD.
The primary elections in this city, for the last
few years, have developed a sum total of bribery
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 pecuniary
interest personal ambition are to be served, q
corner of the curtain is maliciousy raised, and
we get glimpse of what is behind; but, as a
general rule, the wire-pullers and agents in this
nefarious wickedness, so manage to conceal the
proofs of their guilt that nothing appears upon the
surface of the stagnant pond of corruption but the
results, and the community at large can only
guess that something is rotten beneath, from the
kind of men that are thrown up. Now and then,
however, the naked villainy is revealed and from
such specimens we are enabled to form pretty
accurate idea of the whole. The iniquity is not
confined to either Of the two great factlons which
alternately divide the spoils 1t pervades and
ramifes through the whole system of primary
elections and nominations, both Wing and Demo-
| cratic. The Wings generally keep their own
counsel better, but it is notorious that they are
just deep in the mire their antagonists. Never,
in any former year, did such an amount ofelection-
eerng .ascality exhibit itself as during the present
fall. 1t has staked all over the city like /" the pes
thence that walketh in MONDAY"
ha de fho
mass meeting Of the Fourth district, on Monday
afternoon, in Madison street, and reported in yes
terday's Herald alone, of all the city papers, are
but samples of every district and ward in the city,
and this humiliatlng confession was made by some
of the leaders themselves, who let the cat out of
the bag, not perhaps so much from the promptings
of patriotism as from the desire TO take down some
man who stood In their way, ard 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
out who the rogues are, and can thus better pro-
tect themselves from future depredations. If they
fail to do so the fault is their own, and they de-
serve to be plundered.
1t is 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
rupting and the corrupt. The whole machinery
is moved by the almighty dollar, and hired bullies
do the dirty work, for which they paid. De-
cent men will not come into contact with them to
gain mere political victory, and the consequence
is, that they g rule the roast' with high hand
The most worthless characters, with exceptions,
like angels visits, few ard far between, receive
the nominations, because they able and will
ing to expend money in paying rowdes and fight
ing men to surround the ballot box, and allow
only those tickets to be poHed which they know
to bear the names Of their paymasters and these
me- get hu afed Mt hey II
turn every dollar they expend into ten or twenty
dollars, by bleeding the candidates for Congress-
assembly, mayoralty, common council, head Of a
city department, or any other Office in the gift of
the people. Tht nomination being once obtained,
the ratification meeting is manged 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 candidate
thus nominated, and thus ratified, like flock of
sheep following be-wether and if he is elected,
by way of showing his gratitude to the people, he
plumbers them, not only by rembursing himself
for what his fraudulent election cost him, but add
ing interest upon interest, through dishonest con-
tracts, and thousand other means.
Thus the round Of wick edness goes on from |
year to year, and the people are feeced, under the
serving their party by voting for good Whig,
or good Democrat. Hence, Ignorance, incapac-
ty, blundering Of every description, the most dis
graceful neglect, and the most criminal fraud, sit
in the highest places Of the city government, the
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 i'm
glass houses cannot safely throw stones, both the
Wing and the Democratic organs shrink alike
from reposing the turpude of the faction leaders,
either on their own the other side, and accord
ingly the evil is allowed to accumulate from time
to time. .... P"
There arc many good men Of the two great po-
litcal sections, who are beginning to see and to
feel the terrible realities of this system, and are
trembling for the consequences They are medi-
tating upon the mode and means Of oyerthrowing
IT. but they have not yet put their thoughts in any
tangible shape. We would suggest that noble
opportunity presents itself this evening at thegreat
Union meeting, to make beginning, for one blow
struck there would be half the battle. Let reso-
luton to the purpose be drawn up and Offered, de-
primary meetings in toto, and there is
not the shadow Of doubt that 1t will be carried
by the assembled people. Something must be
done. and that soon, to stem the tide OF political
inlquty that overspreads the land and threatens to
engulph the dearest rights OF freemen, together
with the glorious Constitution itself-ssthe envy
Of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the
world"
BLACKS IN CANApA.--Loud complaints are
made in various parts Of Canada against the in
flux of black refugees from the United States,
and il is intimated, that should the immigration
continue, it will become matter Of legislation
Il a.