New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-29

this preference, OUT we WISH tncy h1l CHOSEN
a more open and manful way Of expressing
ii.
Among the Wing candidates thus de-
feated, there were at least some who had
deserved better treatment at the hands OF
the Joabs who devoted them to that fate.
1t seems TO US that Francis Granger and
his cotere, If they ever reflect on what has
been, must feel some compuncIions when
they contemplate George W. Patterson
stricken down by Vaccinations which they
directed primarily against local candidates,
but which they could not fail to know would
affect the whole ticket. To pretend, as
their special organ has attempted, that
desperate opposition to the Wing local can
didates did not injure the State ticket is to
insult credulty and outrage plausibiIity.
The defeat of Mr.. UllmaRn by handful
of votes is public misfortune. He would
have restored to the Attorney Generals
Office that dignity and public respect which
it has been the chief business Of the iscum-
bent to dissipate by bar-room Opinions,
couched in the language Of the fish market.
While Mr.. Chatfeld maintained his original
and natural position Of deadly, foul
meuthed antagonist of the Canal Enlarge
ment, in which he could see nothing but
gigantic, gIaringly unauthorized scheme of
public plumber, it was possible to respect
him as an honest though narrow.minded
partisan bigot, who might do better if he
knew more; but when he turned short
corner on the eve of the Election, and,
purely as vote-catching expedient pledged
himself to sustain and carry into effect the
very scheme which he had officially adj
judged shamefully corrupt and palpably
unconstitutional, he sunk below the
range of any honest mans respect or
confidence. He ought to have been
defeated, not by hundreds merely, but by
tens of thousands, and it is discredit to
our State that he was rot. And at last,
when by ntermeddling with the canvass in
our City, he had thrown himself out of his
majority in the XIVth Ward. and thereby
defeated his own election, it would have
been but just to him had the State Can
vassers given the return to his competitor,
who, however, had fully resolved not to
accept it. 1t was necessary to violate the
law prescribing the term within which our
State Canvass must be completed to enable
Mr.. Chatfeld to extricate his fingers from
the trap in which he had greedily, blunder-
ingly thrust them. 1t was well for Wing
Board to stretch point in his favor, yet if
he had Unanswered himself out of the
office, we believe three 6fths of the people
of our State would have heartily rejoiced.
MIR. Ullmann never meddled with the
canvass or canvassers in any stage, and
would not have accepted the office except
at the hands of clear majority of the
,y.ors. Could the vote be rairly scrutin-,
lied, and the fraudulent ballots rejected, he
could scarcely fail of a majority; for the
foul play in the XIIth and some Districts of
other Wards of our City by which hundreds
of Wing voters were deprived of their right
of suffrage ought to have been rebuked and
defeated But let it pass now, with firm
resolve that another such series of out
RACES shall not be attempted without meet
ing instant rebuke and effectual punish
ment Let every legal voter have free and
ready access to the polls, and each deposit
one vote throughout and no more, and let
none others vote at all, and this City is de-
cidedly Wing, as we hope to show next
November. Until then, we fully admit
defeat, and shall endeavor to profit by the
lesson.