The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-09-06

BLACK REPUBLICAN TAcTIcs-THER ACTS OF
OPPRESSION AND SuPPREssloN-Ou Albany cor
respondent, in late letter, says, 'it appears as
though we were never to touch bottom in fathom-
ing the rascalites of our black republican Legis.
lature of 1857" Their main object last winter
was, through a series Of high handed measures
usurpipg the municipal government of this city,
to break down the democracy here, and thus, in
reducing the great citadel of their strength, to
secure the undsputed possession of the city and
the State.
To this end the Seward-Weed clique adroitly
contrived, in the concoction aud passage of these
aforesaid bills of usurpation to shrk the issue Of
direct conflict with the democratic party, upon
the pretence that all these acts for the special
benefit of this metropolis were all directed to
the great object of relieving the city of Mayor
Wood and his partizans. Thus the free soil sece
ders from the democratic camp were quieted in
measure, and thus good many other foolish
democrats, whose personal relations with Mayor
Wood were not Of the most harmonious charac-
ter, were induced to aid or connive at these in
famous acts of the Albany oligarchy for the sub
jugation of this city. In this way, the old feuds
and grudges between this man and that man, and
this mans clique and that mans clique, have
been kept alive by the scheming Seward Albany
managers.
In this we may account for the treacherous
course of Sickles, and the foolish offs and ands"
of such narrow sighted party managers as Hart,
Sanders and Rynders. In this way, too, we may
readily solve all the late squabbles and double.
headed organizations of Tammany Hall, Includ-
ing the Peter Cooper Puritan committee of demo-
cratic reformers. But we can tell them all that
ii is not Mayor Wood, nor his partizans, nor his
State have to fear, or will have to fight in Ne
vember and December. 1t is the desperate and
still powerful forces of the Seward black republ-
can league that will have to be met and defeat.
Cd or else the democracy of the city and the
State may prepare for absolute submission to the
DEGREES Of the Seward managing spoils and plum
der junta at Albany.
We see from the latest Developments from Al
bany that this Seward junta, upon discovering
that certain measures of the last Legislature in
behalf of negro suffrage, and for the pun
ishment of bribery at the elections, &c,
were going little too far for the good of the
party, and we have seen that with this discovery
these measures have been coolly suffocated and
suppressed by the executive authorities, whose
duty ii was to fulfil the technical forms of publ
cation, &c, required to carry them into effect.
They have not been published as required by law;
and thus, upon reconsideration, it has been de.
creed by the Governor or by Weed and his staff,
that IL is not judcious to give niggcrs an equal
right to vote with white men, nor polite to ap-
ply heavy and summary punishments for bribery
and corruption AT the polls. This backing down
upon the bred Scott case is good sgu; but in
reference to the matter Of elections, brberies ard
corruptions this suppression Of the Law wears
bad complexion.
Against all these tricks Of oppression and sup
preston. and all these lodges, shunlngs apd in
tieues Of the Seward oligarchy, il has become the
paramount duty Of the democracy to unite as one
man until the work of a wholesome revolution is
accomplished The petty jealouses and rivalries
Of men ard cliques, in this view Of
the care, should be cast out OF sight,
and every democrat in this city should consider
it bis fist duty to aid in uniting the party here
as the first indispensable step to its success in the
city and in the State.