The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-19
THE MARsHAIIs AND THE CENsus-MoRR Cow

THE MARsHAIs AND THE CENsUs-MoRE Con-
PLAINTs.-We have received a considerable
number Of communications from our fellow
citizens in arions parts of the city complain
ing that they have been omitted in the emu
meration Of the census, by tens, twcntes, IF
ties and hundreds After the defence, how
ever, which has been put forth in behalf of the
marshals, we must await the conclusion Of
their work, and then, to such of the inhabi-
tants of the corporation as shall have been left
out of the enumeration, it will become duty
to take such steps as may be necessary to sup
ply all the omissions Of the marshals.
When the work of this State census was COM
menced, it was charged that the Secretary of
State had sent out q lot Of enumeratOrs who
were in the interest Of Seward; and that, in
addition to counting the people, &C. they
would be required to sell Stewards life on q
commission, and otherwise to electioneer in his
behalf. Subsequently it was said that the life
and speeches Of Seward, being an excessively
dry book, could not be made to 60 upon any
terms, and that some of the marshals had ac-
cordingly fallen back upon other book peddling
experiments, including the life of Greeley, the
life of Barnum, and the controversy on church
property between Senator Brooks and Arch
bishop Hughes As far as we can ascertain,
there was no truth in these reports, and we in
cline to think that the last and most serious
charge against the marshals may be equally
destitute Of foundation. 1t is this That the
census marshals, especially in this city and
vicinity, are the political partizans of Seward,
and that as such they are DESTROYS of making
the population of this anti-Seward Manhattan
island and ncighborhood as small as they con-
veniently can make it, for the purpose Of
diminishing the anti-Seward representation in
the Assembly. Now, we say that we do not
believe this On the contrary we are informed
that there arc among our census marshals hard
she'll democrats and silver gray wings who
could not possibly be interested in any Seward
project of the kind alleged. Nor can we sup
pose that the young men of the census takers,
even with their predictions and principles in
favor of Seward, could lend themselves upon
any terms to any trickery involving treachery
and perjury, in the discharge of duty of the
high Importance of that with which they arc
connected
We suppose that the omissions of our mar
shals complained of by our fellow-citizens, will
yet be supplied, and that before they shall
have closed up their books they will CLEAN up
every family and every individual residing in
this city on the first of June last, as far as pos
sible to do SO. In the interval between that
day and this, large number of our citi-
zens, including many entire families have gone
off into the country, and at their uninhabited
homes the marshals, of course, have been una
BILE to get their returns. But under the inn
preston that the marshals are sincerely devot-
ed to their work, and ambitious to do it fully
and honestly, we think only fair to give them
little more time for the completion of their
reports. There can be no difficulty about their
compensation for if the Legislature or the
Corporation should both be inclined to badger
about few shillfngs, the people of this city
will see that the marshals are literally paid
for their services, provided their work be we'll
and thoroughly done.