The New York herald., 1851-11-04
The Election To-day.

The election of State officers, Judges, Common
Council men, and other officers, about which &C
much has been said and sung for time past, BY
the party press, will take place to-day and will be
decided one way or the other by sun-down. BY that
time the 4" country will be saved, and new ba .ch
of Office holders and treasury plunderers will be
elected, to eat the substance Of the people, and
to intrigue and lay plans for their continuance in
| Office. Both parties making great deal of
noise and uproar, and, usual, cash claims victory
in advance. In boasting and bullying, and threat
enipg and csjoling, and intriguing, and in the use
of ofcorrupton of all kinds, they equally balanced;
and whichever gets the ascendancy, the people at
large may rest assured that they will derive very
little benefit from it.
Notwithstanding all the excitement which the
politicians endeavorng to create respecting this
election it is really and essentially one of the least
important we have ever had in this State. 1t will
be nothing but contest for the spoils, by two
corrupt, unprincpled, and selfish political parties,
who have shown themselves devoid Of all patriotism
and nationality on the great question Of the day.
Neither Of their conventions at Syracuse had the
manliness or moral courage to construc. compre-
hensive national pa aform or to take stand gainst
the wild and destructive spirit Of abolitionism now
rampant in the State On the contrary, both, to
certain extent succumbed to the abolition factions
Of the North. In this point Of view, the nomina-
tions ef neit her party deserve any encouragement
or suppoI rom the honest masses In order, how
ever, to deceive the people, and to lead them away
from considering all this the politicians get up
hue and cry about the completion Of the enlarge
ment of the canals. This is all nonsense. The
enlargement is fixed fact-the people have so de-
cided-a bill for that purpose was passed by the
last Legislature, and the canals will be enlarged no
matter what party may succeed in the election.
There is nothing left now, but for the successful
party to carry the Law into effect As for the can.
didates, we do not care fig which set is elected.
Thus much for the State. In relation to the city
election the only important point of it is the cleo
tion Of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. The
candidates of each party for seats on the bench are
on the whole, very respectable, and very credtabe
in every point Of view. Bu. let our fellow citizens
look to the Corporation. The present city govern
ment is as corrupt, and as worthless as any that
ever precededit This is saying great deal, bu.
rot too much. Its contract dealings have been in
famous and in the extent to which it has plundered
the city treasury, and wasted the peoples money,
It is entitled to the credit Of having gone deeper
and grabbed more than any Of lis predecessors. No
candidate, therefore, who has had any connection
with the present city government, ought to be re-
elected If the other candidates running were only
half as honest and capsule as Richard T Compton,
the candidate for Alderman Of the Eighth ward,
there would not be so much trouble among the peo-
pie in selecting q. persons. As to the candidates
for other Offices, We do not knov much about them.
On the whole, however, they are of better class
than those presented at the last election.