New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-03

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- If Freedom, it was only that he
,n;cbt thereby subserve more ehectusny the
- of Slavery. They both stand clear on the
~ooo-s with a perfect right to pursue that
aor-se which their inclination prompts, and
% which no one has any plausible claim TO
interpose an objection. With many OF their
leading supporters the case is different, as
Lee zritb their most effective auxilaries under
rho lead of Giddings, whe have del1ded thou
sands into belief that the Wing party has
ceased TO be Wing in principle, so that the
questions of Protection and Interna! Improve
ment have ceased to be party issues. But
We must do justice to these another time.
The majority in our City, and W. presume
in other cities also, is not all honest. That in
the Nth Ward, for instance, is palpably SWELL
ed by illegal or double voting. There was not
the least practical impediment to the polling Of
twenty thousand illegal votes in this City. At
q majority of the polls there was little chal-
longing, and at many of them any man whose
appearance did not subject him to suspicion
voted without question. Not even the resi-
dencss Of the voters were required in many Dis
tricts. Whoever took fancy to vote twenty
times yesterday did so with perfect immunity,
and may continue to do so at every Eclection
until the Right of Suffrage shall be guarded
by Registry of Voters. How any man can
oppose this measure who even pretends TO any
respect for the purity of Elections We clnnot
imagine
But we should have been badly beaten in our
City without Illegal Voting. Our wealthy and
mercantile Wings generally kept away from
the polls, or took little interest in the Elec.
ton. Many who came either voted the dead
Union ticket or else RETAINED from voting
for any Electors On the other hand, our OPP
ponents, literally supplied with money, were
very active throughout. They had the bulk
Of the Importing interest at their back, and
the City Reform and Temperance Alliance d.
versions operating strongly in their favor. They
went in to win and did it, though We think
they cheated more than was necessary.
Cotton went very hard against US We
hoped the men who have been defeating the
Wing party for two or three years past in order
to XIII Seward, must have finished their job
by this time, but they were at it as hard yes
terday as If they halju begun Its matter
of some interest to know when they expect to
get through, if ever; but We do not mean to
hurry them. There is time enough
The new Naturalization vent heavily against
us, though we think Gen Scott received more
votes of Adopted Citizens than any previous
Wing candidate. The new Corners are nearly
all deceived into mstaking the shadow Of De-
mocracy for the substance; but many Of them
arc gradually undeceived. We did hope that
many more would be this year but the cry
bout Cen SCOTS former Natiyism, the eta
tons from Wing papers Of former years against
Foreigners, Popery @c., proved too powerful.
Patient forbearauce end the avoidance of far
Their foll;es of this sort will work great
change within . few years. There are NJ
more honest voters than the NaturaliZed;
unlike some others, when they see the
right, they pursue it. Only kindness
and tie quiet, steady diffusion of intel
ligencc are needed to bring majority Of th,
Naturalized into Political accord with that
large majority Of our Native Citizens who are
now, as ever, the earnest advocates of the
distinctive measures of the Wing party. May
we not hope that this most desirable consum-
nation will hcnceforth be steadily contem-
plated
Clamor against Observation-Disclosures aud de-
ceptiye, but most potent-and bug5ear out
cry of Abolition have been the main instru-
ments in efectng the victory just achieved.
There is a majority of the American People
tits day in favor of the measures di5tinctiYely
contended for by the Wing party; the decision
Of yesterday was made on false and irrelevant
issues for we regret to say that a majority
of the Wings do not deserve the Ant-S.ayery
character which their adversaries give them.
They are not So Pro-Slayery as the great bnlk
Of their opponents; they will not 1--WE speak Of
those in the Free States) consent to buy or
steal new territory to make Slave States Of;
but they viii do nothing hostile to Sayerys
interest and security where il has already
legal existence. That our people are Pro-
Slavery, and that Natiyism is an exploded fan
tasy-so much is proved By yesterdays vote
as also that our Business Men are prosperous,
ccntcnted, and therefore Indifferent to Poll
ties. Flibustierism was potent element in the
contest; but introduced in such manner that.
while the passion for the conquest and annex
alton of Cuba powerfully aided Pierce, the con-
scienticUs or conservative repugnance 10 that
spirit could not be rendered available on the
other side. Thus all things conspired TO pro-