New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-01
Our state Eiection-The City.
Official Canvass.


the questions coming before them. FROM
their decision that the return from the
ID District Of the XIVh Ward is Invalid
and nudity, an appeal has been made to
the Courts, which are solicited to issue
Mandamus compelling the Supervisors to
count votes which they have adjudged
Illegal and null. We shall not anticipate
the action Of the Courts on this application,
but simply remark that its success or failure
will Howise affect any City candldate-Mr.
Bradford (Whig) being chosen Surrogate
and all the other Wing candidates defeated,
whether the rejected return be counted or
not. 1t may, however, affect the choice of
State Treasurer, and we are therefore glad
the application has been made. If the
election in that District was fairly held, and
the return presented to the Board of Can
vassers was a true, reliable statement Of
the votes cast, we trust it will ultimate
" be corrected, whether there were
or were not technical informalities attend
ant on the Election but if the polls were
kept open there after the proper hour of
closing, or other unfair devices employed
to swell the Opposition majority, we cannot
doubt the justice Of its rejection. We hope
the Court will feel authorized to sift the
matter thoroughly if not, the State Can
vassers certainly will. But whether this
be rejected or not will make no difference
with the following computations.
There were some Thirteen Thousand
persons, apparently voters of our City, who
signed their names or made their marks to
the Union Safety Committees Pledge that
thew would vote for no candidate who did
not distinctly and heartily approve and sus-
tain the Compromise measuIfs.' so called,
including the Fugitive Slave Law. There
upon the Union Safety Committee selected
from the opposing tickets of the two great
parties half-and- half ticket, which, they
proclaimed, was composed entirely Of Com
promise men, while the candidates rejected
by them were Seward men, Woollies.
Agitators,' Barnburners, whose support
would be plainly inconsistent with the atore-
said Pledge of the Thirteen Thousand.
OF course, if we suppose only Ten Thou
sand of these to have voted in our City at
the late Election, there should have been
Twenty Thousand difference between the
relative votes of the candidates rejected
and those adopted by the Union Safety Com
mittee. But the actual dif'erence-taking
in each case the vote most favorable to the
Committees potency-ie as follows:
Comptroller Patterson 1891 Wright 81 ,3i2
Attorney General Imam 2O,Os6 Chst6eld- l9,479
MOiority-Wright- 1901 Ulmann- GA Total SIS
Showing that only Eighteen Hundred and
1pcnty- Two voters followed the lead of
the Union Safety Committee, out Of Ghlr-
teen Thousand men in buckram suits
whose names were appended to their
Pledge.
But again |, cannot be doubted, by any
one who has inspected the names, that
large majority Of the signers of the Pledge
are of the party which vaunts itself Pc
culiarly Democratic Now let US see how
they fulfilled their voluntarily assumed obi
cation:
No candidate on the Wing tirket has
ever been cOnspicuously an opponent of the
Compromise measures; but Messrs. Pat
terson and Forsyth are intimate personal
friends of Gov Seward, which is quite as
grave an oflense in the eyes of the Union
Safety Committee. On the other hand.
Messrs. Wheaton and Welch, on the Oppo-
sitson ticket, had very recently manifested
their unsying repugnance to the Fugitive
Slave Law upon the arrests respectively of
the slaves Daniel in Buffalo and jerry IN
Syracuse. No man who wished TO know
the truth could doubt that the Union Safety
Committee, in asking their disciples to vote
against Alessrs. Wheaton and Welch. had
done them no more honor than they had
richly deserved. Let US see. then. how
they were obeyed
IL Is difficult to FIX precisely the number
OF voters Of each party who were enabled 70
vote at this Election, but the vote for Aims.
House Commissioner affords the best test
attainable. Messrs. Draper and West are
both able, respected and popular men both
were certain to be elected at all events 50
there was no motive for attempting to helm
one at the expense of the other Mr..
Vests vote exceeds tia. Of NJ. D:.se. b,