The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-12

THE ELECTION RETURNS RuMoRs OF FRAUD
1t is publicly asserted that frauds of the most
giaring character were committed by the in
spectors OF election last week. Some of the
rumors that are current on the subject are
mentioned in couple of extracts which we
give elsewhere
1t certainly appears wonderful that the in
spectors should have needed so long period
Of time to count the votes. In the first district
of the Twelfth ward, for instance district
in which there are not altogether FIVE hundred
Notes.-The inspectors appear to have been hard
at work from Tuesday to Saturday night, and
have not yet been able to give a return Of the
votes polled for Comptroller.
Nor is the experience of the press less singu-
lar. Before the election blanks were prepared
by the press and sent round to the inspectors,
with request that they would fill them up.
On Tuesday night these blanks were called for,
but they were not filed up in every instance.
liz some, the inspectors had not added the
votes, they said; in others, they refused point
blank to furnish any information to the press.
One cannot help remembering that if the re-
turns had been given to the press and pub
lished next morning, it would have been i'm
possible to alter them afterwards without great
risk; whereas, by Withholding them from the
public, fraudulent set Of inspectors had it in
their power to falsify them in order to meet
contingencies and satisfy the necessities of
their party.
or course we cannot say that this was done;
we simply note that the evident dislike of pub
licity shown by some Of the inspectors was
suspicious; and, under the circumstances, as it
is not the design Of the constitution that the
inspectors of election should elect the State
and city officers it will be as we'll for the Le-
gislature, at the next session, to pass a new
law regulating the manner of canvassing the
votes in this city, providing that the polls shall
be held in places to which people can get, that
they shall be guarded by sufficient police
force, and that the returns shall be guaranteed
such and so early publicity that fraudulent
alterations shall be more difficult to effect
DANGER TO THE UNIoN.--Our free love CO.
temporary-the 7T6me-is exercised over the
assertions made by enemies to the republican
cause, that it is in dangerous antagonism to the
Union. The Tribune is uncandid in this-the
estimates of speakers and writer's having been
made on the superstition that that paper was
telling the truth in regard to the numbers of
its party. 1t now turns out that our cotem-
porary was just half right-the dangers have
been greatly lessened since the public has
come to the actual result of the elections. All
the republican party lack to make it formula
BILE and destructive to the federal compact, is
numbers-an essential ingredient, it must b,
confessed, in popular government. While on
this subject we may as well say that we have
no confidence that the British feet, which is
being despatched to our shores, is intended to
act in conjunction with the abolitionists-anti-
cipating the triumph Of the latter in the cleo
tions. Our negro lovers and worshippers are
humane but not fighting people. They as
simulate a little to be sure, to saltpetre, by
their peculiarly explosive qualities but we
see no other warlike feature in their character.
We hold it to be certain, then, that Her Ma
jesty's feet is not sent to cooperate with the
heroes of black repubicanism.