The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-13

HE NEW CoRPORATIoN-1HE APPOINTMENTS
TO OFFIcKs.-The new Corporation will come into
power at the beginning of the new year, AID there
will be great scramble for the spoils-some six or
seven thousand applicants for every office. Every
man will put forward bis own claims-sne for one
SERVICE and another for another service-to the de-
mocratic faction. These claims and services will
differ in kind and degree but they will all agree in
thing, and that is, that they were rendered by
partisaRs to party. There is one thing, however,
that ought to be remembered, and that is, the men
to whom the reins Of the city government are
about to be entrusted are not indebted to party for
this victory. They are indebted to . complete re-
voution among the Independent voters Of this city,
ard the utter detestation in which they hold the
corruption Of the present Corporation 1t is calcu-
lated that there has been expended by the party in
power-and taken from the treasury funds--a sum
Of half a million Of dollars, in those appliances
which debauch public virtue, dcmoralse tho people,
and sap the very foundations Of our glorious inst
tutions.
The developements n reference to Coroner's in
quests, recently brought out in a report of CON-
mittee Of the Board Of Supervisors are but sam
pie Of what has been going on in the dark In
various departments Of the city government. These
matters would, perhaps never have seen the light Of
day, but for the unprinciPled partisan onslaught
upon the Chief of Police, which produ,ed terrible
retaliation. But though these matters we're known
four months ago TO the Corpor ation 1t is only now
when the election Is over, and there is nothing Cor
the uhig party TO lose by the exposure--that the
secrets Of the prison house have been laid bare to
the gaze of an astonshed public What further
action will be taken in that matter, by the proper
L..
at least to serve as beacon for the future
In the appointments by the new Corporation, that
body ought not to lose sight Of the various elements
that brought them into power, nor follow the prso
tees which have caused the present change, and
brought about q real revolution. In the ds:r-
button Of offce, q due regard ought to be had
to fitness, propriety, and purity Of chsra,ter, and
not to mere considerations Of partisanship. The
ndiscrimina.e expulsion Of all persons from Office,
merely be ,ause they are wings, is an abominsblc,
atrocious doctrine, tho character Of which we have
sufficiently exhibited In the example Of Forney, Of
Philadelphia. There are now in the city govern
ment many public officers that stand to day steadily,
and behave themselves decently, as Christian men
in a Christian land. Such men ought not 10 be
removed tomorrow, or next day, to make room for
other men because they belong to the democratic
party, or any other party.
We wish to introduce into eur municipal institu-
tions high integrity, morality, intelligence, and
capacity, and net the low vulgarity Of the grog
shop-the immortality, the pronigacy, and rowdyisn
which character sed the exhibitions at our resent
elections, and have diseraced the city for some
time past Above all, the new Corporation, in
coming into oEice, ought to show their sease Of the
Improperly and indeoency Of feeding and pamper-
ing free coil and abolition journals, for the last two
or three years, upon the hard earnings Of popula
ton who utterly opposed to the treason sediton,
ami fapstcis scattered broad cast over the landry
these and other disorganizing frebrands.