New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-07
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The cold, gray night wears heavily away; the
morning. long waited for, dawns at last. Soldiers
of Temperance, Humanity, and Freedom your
sdvtrsary is before you
Men who have proclaimed before God aud your
fellows your adherence Of the Nebraska fraud
and its abettors now s the time to prove the
sincerity of your yociferations Words are cheap
and easy things-the ready mintage Of hypocrisy
and pretense, no less than of Virtue and Truth
ACTS are the touchstone Of sincerity. If you
mean what you have so often and so solemply de.
clsred, you will vote and work to-day for MYRON
II. CLARK and the whole Anti.Nebraska ticket
Men who have deprecated in words the desols-
tons Of the Rum Traffic, and denounced our law
makers and rulers for not shielding Society from
this scourge-how will you feel if this days strug-
gle should through your supineness, result In the
triumph Of Seymour and Rum Will you
seain have the assurance to blame any one for
misgoverpment or neglect of datyl II you are
not faithful to your own convictions, how can you
blame those who have no convictions for infdel-
iy to yours
Lovers of Peace, Purity, and Prosperity-do
you not realize that your great antagonist, Alco-
h, lie Dirk, is on trial-that sentence against him
of bsnisbu ent or destruction awaits but the vote
Of our people Do you not realize that Pauper-
ism, BeggMy, Vice, Csime, Outrage, Homicide,
and Murder. nesrly always find their main iucite-
ment in the intoxicating Bowl How can you
fail to be jealous and effective in this contest
There is work for every one who will do a
freemsn's part. He who merely stands at the
polls and offers the right ballots, to those who
come up, will be doing needed service. But
each of you has acquaintance, neighbors, rela-
tiye', friends and each can do something
toward persusding some OF these to attend the
polls and put in the right ballots. VIII you each
do thst something
There will be polls at which our ballots will
be missing through detection and treason; will
you apply yourself instantly to supply them ,
| There will be polls at which our adversaries will
have bought of our vote distrbuters and chal-
! lenger, you step in at once to fill their
places There will be polls which the myrmi-
dons Of Rum and Rufhsnism will block up aud take
possession OF, intent on rushing in their own
votes ard keeping cut all others-wil you unite
with all fair and honest men to see these cleared
and made accessible TO all , Unless you will do
this, the vote piled up for Seymour and Rum
around the Five Points, on the Hook, from the
| dance houses of Water st. and the vier dens Of
Cherry st. and all the rotten purlieus of this
corrupt City, will be horrible to think Of For
there is not brotbsl-keeper or frequenter in our
City, nor blackleg, nor any sort of wretch who
I b;s ko1r bx-s hn ia ar
charmed with the logic of Gov. Seymour's Veto
and shocked at the absurdity Of seeking to make
men moral by law. All the powers of evil will be
alert and vigilant To-DAY-shall they not be
confronted and resisted with equal energy and
equsl spirit
Never were Virtue and Vice more fairly con-
ircrted in an eleeton-never did all the powers
Of evil more PaPsbly and desperately strike hand,
to make head against Morality and Virtue. The
son Shell party did their best last fall and polled
but eleven to twelve thousand votes; To Day
they boast that they will give twenty FIVE thous-
and 70 Seymour, Whence viii they get them
Nobody pretends that tie Soft party is one whit
stronger than twas year ago-on the contrary,
il las noteriously been weakened BY the Nebraska
bill, the GreytoEn business, by fuller evidence,
Of Executive incaPacity at Washington. and By
rout after rou. in the Elections of 81. Whence
| then cone Seymour's extra votes, whether they
be Fifteen thousand or only Fiyel Look around
you at the recruiting Stations, the banners, the
mottos # Seymcurism and read your answer
Men Of New York, you can throw away your
votes on impossible candidates, or disgrace your
State by ,rtssousble inactivity but rot CANNOT