New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-20
y seems to va quite tuPerercgatoy' We 90 no.
uDderstand that there will be anything new aoou'

y seems 10 us quite superercgatoy. We 90 not
uDdentand that there will be anything new aoou'
the sbti-L compton party but new and very large
Accession to ts numbers. The name Republican
ft, so true, inoffensiye. thst we hope 70 sec
it accepted With readiness by all who are rea'y 10
III ite against the despotism Of the original Lecoup
tcp bill ard the bribery and unfiirness OF tne Ln-
ehsh substitute. II only aproper spiri: OF hoerhity
and concession With regard to candidates and mess
ures BE- evinced, We believe this viii encounter little
otjectio0.
There sIe two points on which We think cohces-
sions should be made to the distinctive American
sentiment. The first is that Of guarding most ei-
lectivtly the purity Of the Ballotbox. IL Is no'
right that the mere word Of any male biPed 10 hu-
Nan form. or at the utmost bis oath, often given
under the double stimulus Of liquor and e1cited
pa,tisa1sbip, should be allowed to neutrauze
the vote Of d well.known citizen. The right 20
vote is too sacred, too precious to be nghHuily
subject to notification so easily as this. IL Is
Dsked)y ust, it s urgently necessary that the ngh'
Of every orc claiming to be legal voter should De
scrutinizsd more deliberately and established more
CSiCiuri'tp thhu AZ C2n VIC ouliu bHC 'NAAO
election. AL this We urged and acted on long be-
fore there was any American party; it is none the
less proper ard urgent because large party EN-
pbaticsly demand it. Let us have Registry OF
Voters next Winter; if there should thereup)n
arse any cavil to its coDstitutOnalty, the Con
vention row looming on the horizon vii obvlAte
that difficulty.
No ob.poo IN tho I cf - liberalization ia
ticsble nor Gin our udgment) desirable; but our
last Constitution al Convention took a step in the
direction Of reform which will Obviate much
just complaint in this quarter We refer to the re-
qureneut that at least ten days shall intervene be-
twxt the act If naturalization aud the exercise OF
the Right Of Suffrage. The justice of thh require
ment is pslpsble. To hunt up and put through
persons eligible to naturalization has become
regular business ard part of the recognized eec'
tioneerbg machinery Of the party which profits
most by the citizen-manufacture. We have
known important elections in this city carried By
votes hunted up AID manufactured after the open
ing of the polls. Now we would no wiss reduce
the facilities for naturalization, but We would dimin-
iih The nducement to fabricate citizens in order to
PIOut iuHtuid'cy W tAcu 'O'Sr' as "ui IL"
LOW require a years residence in the State
before votipg-not that immigrants from our sister
States are deemed less capable or lees worthy than
our citizens 'to the manor born but to precluds
the importation Of voters from other States to carry
a close Election, so we think they should prescribe
that naturalization shall in like manner have
taken place long enough before the election to rem
der il morally certain that the voter was no. drum
n I'd up and mat ufactured to serve party or per-
sona purpose on that occasion. IL would surely be
no hardship to require that sn immigrant from Eu'
rope shall have been citizen as long before voting
as oil immigrant from Vermont or Pennsylvania
must have resided in our State before exercising
the Right of Suffrage The object in either case
would be to prevent either immigration or natural
il ,ton to subseIye party purpose.
The next House Of Representatives should and
may be anti Buchanan aud ant-LecOmpton. Our
own State may easily contribute from five to ten
additional Members to this end. Pennsylvania can
do ia well; Ohio and Indiana can contribute in pro-
portion. United States Senator's are to be ch ,sen
in New. Jersey, in Illinois, in Michigan, aud, II
there be any sense of decency remsining IN the
Senate in Indiana Also 1t il greatly desirable that
the Opposition sball be united and triumphant IN
every Free State New-YOrk can do much to Sc
cure this consumwation; let no private grefs no
petty jeslousies, personal aspirations, be per-
nitted to prevent it.