New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-02
The Cotton Conspiracy to defeat Wash
iuuton Hunt.

Night before last,we are RELIABLY assured
there was held the first meeting of the
:. Union Sqtety Committee Of Fifty, APP
pointed by By the late Merchants Meeting
at Castle Garden. (The names of this Com
mittee Of Safety have already appeared in
The Tnbune.) The meeting having been
organized, Mr.. T. S. LATnRop opened the
ball by moving a resolution that the Jour
nal of Commences Union Anti-Abolition
Ticket headed Ho1aj0 Seymour for Gov
ernor. be adopted by this Committee and
recommended to general support. This
was demurrcd to by one or two Wings as
uncaIled for, there being no evidence that
all the candidates excluded from that Tick
eli were hostile to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Hereupon one of the wire-workers coolly
remarked, Your objection comes too late
the Ballots hare already been printed and
mann Of them distributed through the State
Mr. JAMES W. GERARD, ayowed his resolu-
ton to vote the Union Ticket '-Horatio
Seymour at It's head. But the resistance
was so strong, from friends of Wing local
candidates who could not fail to be serious
ly compromised by the passage of the reso-
luton, that it was finally modified so as to
read that we will support no candidates for
any Office who are not hostile to Slavery
A citation on any preteNt and in any shape
and IN this form it passed unanimously
Such, we arc well-assured, was the
substance of the doings of the Committee
Of Union and Safety at its first meeting
Having deliberated with closed doors, we
have to take such a report of its proceed
ines as we can get But we are satisfied
that the above is substantially correct.
Meantime, We are well assured that One
Hundred and twenty-five Thousand
printed Union ballots, all headed For
Governor, Horatio Seymour, have already
been distributed to confederates throughout
the Country. Much good may ii do them
The managers have assured their allies
elsewhere that they will give Seymour
from SIR to Ten thousand majority IN this
City. Finding their views generally con-
CURED in by the class with whom they as
sociate-those who congregote in Bank par
Iors, Insurance offices, the heavy shippers
importers, most of the iobbcrs, &c.-they
think the City is to be carried with rush
bv the Cotton operators. And already
anxious inquiries begin to come back to US
from the Country as to the extent of Sey-
mour's majority.
We assure our friends in the Rural Dis
tricts that the detection here is mainly on
the surface. It does not reach the rank
and file We estimate that Two Thou
sand mercantile Wings at the utmost will
vote for Horatio Seymour, in return for
which at least One Thousand Adopted Citi-
zens who vote against us on most Of the
ticket Will vote for Washington Hunt. Our
net loss in the City viii therefore be about
One Thousand Votes, and we can at the
worst go out Of the City One Thousand be-
hind on Governor. This is the worst as
pect of the case we can anticipate. We by
no means despair of a majority for our
whole Ticket, but the Union dodge mag
affect us to the extent above indicated-not
more.
On the other hand, we knolp that this
conspiracy Of City Wings to PROSTATE the
Wing ascendoney in the State, slyly and
palteringIy as 1t has been prosecuted is
awakening powerful resistance through
out the Country. Wherever it shall be dis
tinctly understoodthat WAsHNGToN Hunt
is marked for destruction by those who Gu
logic Daniel S. Dickinson and pledge them
selves to sustain and execute the Fugitive
Slave Law, there Independent and liberal
men will rally to the support OF the man
who is plotted against because he will not
renounce principles dear to them as to him.
Friends Of Free Thought and Free Speech
throughout the State though your breth-
rem here may be temporarily overcome,
theirtrust in yoais mistaken. They KNOW
that the State will be right in defiance of
the Mercantile detection here. We beseech
YOU TO relax no muscle, remitno effort IN
Ill next Tuesday sunset shall have proved
that in trusting YOU they leaned on no bro
ken reed, but on hearts and arms worthy to
upbear the standard of Freedom and HUI
manity
NV JrRsEr.-The Wings Of HUDsoN
and PAssMc Counties are battling nobly
anninst hriherv and freaeherv. and must