New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-28


il this effort vi be 1t perfect liberty to ~Pp'n""
Of bis own party; if there should Be but one aa.'
Bu.hanan State T,ket, 20 much the better Tor tn'
efoit. II its progress ahouli exert % 'rai I'M
eLee in favor ofurion elsewhere, 10 one oAa fes
sppsbly complain Of this; bat the anti Bae'aaAn
tector. Of this City, claiming the right to manage
THEN OWE sf,irs as they think best di'ciAim any
purpose or ttslre TO ntrol tie acton OF ofae's'
Ard why should we not here unite Admit taN
We hold dt ut positons with regard TO Important
public quest;oDs, is that valid reason for IultSns
ourselves Shall Forty Thousand electors en-
Sodyipg a msjority Of the legal voters OF our Cty
ard certainly not inferior to their antagonists 10
average intelligence ard moral worth, copsenst
remsn cipher in the councils both OF the STATE
aud tie Nation, becsuse Of their differences rather
abstract than practical Nobody expects, nor
hopes, nor fears, that twenty-One yean pro'a-
ton ia about to be required as prerequisite 70 Nat
uraliz.tio no one .upposes nor appreoend' that
the constitutional rights now enjoyed by Adop1ed
Citizens are in danger; and 10 one believes that II
this City bad been represented in the present Con-
ersss by Republicans any fanstc.l or utJa'tihaoie
war upon the guaranteed rights OF the Slsve
States would have been wsged BY item; nor
doubt, that, if our Members had oil been
Americans, they would have failed to unite
heartily ard efficiently in the resistance 40
tusIy made to the Lecompton usurPaton
When Presidential Election was impending, it
would have been difficult-perhaps imposible-to
have united on common candidates for Congress
ara the Legislature; row, no such obstacle exists
Then why not combine and be powerful, rather
then contend ard be dust beneath the triumphant
chariot wheels of our common antagonists
All the Americans of this City, AID at least nine.
teen. tw entetbs of the Republican, earnestly de-
sire d Registration of Legal Voters 90 as to rem.
der Illegal ard double voting all but impossible
Yet, On one pretsxt or another, Registration has
been defeated at Albany session after session, and
failed agsin last Winter by very close yote-this
City voting solid against it 10 both House'. Had
her Republicans ard Americans been fairly repre-
sented there it must then have prevailed; but the
attempt at union last Fall was made on the very
eve of the Election through party nominating CON-
mittees, not through an original, timely, deter
mined movement of the People; and it failed, as
wss TO have been expected. The two parties com.
bred carried half the Senate and Assembly dis
tlicts month later, yet they did not choose a
single legislator at the November Election, and did
not poll within Ten Thousand of their December
vote. Tee lesson was a severe one, and it must
not psss unimproved.
of cOurfe, those who desire Buchanan tr-
umph in our Fall Election will denounce and exc
crate this union movement. TWAS not designed to
please them; and their dissatisfaction will neither
alarm Tor annoy those who have elected it, Many
hollow and some exceedingly dainty Republicans
or Americans viii exolaim against it ~ q surrender
of principle, going over to the enemy, &c. Some
will insist that there is no distinctive Republican
ism in the call Ct the proposed City Meeting; 9th
ers that there is no Americansm in it and We
care not if both classes are pronounced 10 the
right There are in il at least resistance to Slavery
Aggressiop to Naturalization at the cost of parties
ard their candidates for the sake of using the voter
80 soon as he shall have been fabricated; and to all
manner Of fraudulent voting; and We shall be very
glad 10 secure so much at this time, leaving US free
to 20 in for more 30 soon as possible thereafter.
Here is the Call for the proposed City Meeting,
which all who sympathze with its objects are in-
vited to sisn and to circulate promptly aud vigor
ously:
PUBLIC MEETISG The Electors Of the City and
County Of NewYort who opposed to the present National
Administration for It's Efforts to force the Lecomp,ol institution
protesting People;
Who favor Of such change in STATE Constitution
shall require Adopted Citizen % have been Na,urz.d
year before votrE
Who Of securing the rights Of Legal Voters By
efficient Registry Law;
And who in Legal safeguards sgsinr the deportation
BY Foreign Governments Of their convs and psupcs
shores;
Are requested to meet Union square Monisy the 9Th lay
OF September at O'Clock .. m.