New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-25
Union safety Operation.


meet on the following evening to form a
State Ticket, and we directed our City Re-
porters to look sharp for said meeting and
obtain its result for next mornings paper.
But look where No place of meeting was
uublished-none could be discovered-the
Committee had burrowed so slyly that its
haunt could not be detected. SO we were
obliged to wait for The Journal of Com
merce of Yesterday morning, wherein We
were informed that said Committee had met
and nominated
For nudge Of Appeals. SAMUEL A. Foor, Cwhig)
For Sec'u Of state HENRY 5. RANDALL, (OppJ
For Controller ...-. JOHN c. WRIGHT, (Opp)
For Treasurer JAMES VI. Cook (Whig)
For Attorney 6 eneral DANIEL ULLYANN, (Whig)
For Canal Commr. HENRY FITzHuGH, (WhyJ
For state Engineer. WV. J. McALPISE, opp
No State Prison Inspector was nominated, both
the candidates being deemed acceptable.
They further nominated WILLIAM McMURRAY
(Opp) for Senator from the downtown District
against Alex. II. Schultz (Whig,) and declared the
candidates of both parties the other Districts
ceptable.
No place of meeting is named in the
Cotton organ no vote on the several NOM
nations recorded no letters from the can
didates mentioned no tangible grounds of
preference for these over their rejected ri
walls set forth. The public is not told how
many persons participated in this cOnclave,
nor what authority they had to make this
nomination, thirteen months after their ap-
pointment for quite different purpose at
Castle Garden, and with no reference to
our now pending election. The public has
only an anonymous assurance that some Of
the persons who were last year appointed
Committee of Union and Safety got to-
gether at some place carefully concealed
from the public, AID that an alleged major
ity of those so assembled picked certain
names off the two opposing State Tickets
and resolved to combine them in one which
they would call tic Union Ticket Ii
such an act as this carries with it any moral
force and draws after it any votes, what
couid be Political abortion
Let the game be distinctly understood.
A majority of the forlorn remnant of the
Union and Safety Committee were for
me1y mercantile Wings. They have be-
come alienated from their old party because
that party is not so false to its convictions
on the subject Of Human Slavery IS the
immediate pecuniary interest OF these mer-
chants seems to them to require. Thus dis
affected, they seek and labor for the Wing
party's overthrow. But if they were to
come out and work directly for the whole
Opposition ticket, they would hardly be able
to carry oil five hundred votes. BY
making up a lf-and-half ticket, they hope
to carry with them several hundred votes.
So they take the more sinuous course, In
the hope that it NAV be rendered more than
doubly efficient.
- But they mean to vote for haJ the
Wing ticket. No. sir: we don't believe
it. Nominating and voting for candidates
are BY no means convertible terms. And
if thew did mean so, the essential result
would remain unaffected. II the Oppose
tion can choose TWO members Of the Caaak
Board tbs year, the Canals are henceforth
in their hands The Whig superintendent,
collectors, ock-tenders. &c, would have to
wax the lank, and the Chatfelds would
have every thing at their disposal. To
vote this pretended Union Ticket is to
vote thousand good Wings cut Of office
and vote Loco-FocOs into their places.
Let IL not be forgotten that the success of
the Cotton ticket is defeat and disaster to
the Wings and the Canals To vote it is
to vote the Canals and the State patronage
into the hands of the Opposition, to be
used potentially against the Wings In the
approaching Presidential Election.
But we do not fear the success of this
ticket Its Homnators have no constitu-
ents. notwithstanding the long roll of sign
ers. (including nOn-residentS, aliens, &c. 10
the Cotton Pledge We do not believe the
Cotton ticket will poll two thousand votes
throughout the State What we apprehend
is the rebound of the movement, and not
the movement itself The pretense that
such Wings as JAMES e. FoRsYTH must be
prescribed and such Loco-F oco Barnburn-
ers as Henry S. Randall supported by
Wings il order to preserve the Umon, is
too absurd to influence any sane mems
votes But we do fear that sane Wings
we trust rot many-will be melted by
this Cotton demonstration into voting a
State ticket made up of the candidates