New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-05


Voters. Whoever Opposes or denounces that act,
does 30 because be wants to cheat at the polls or to
profit by the frauds of others. There is not
reason for condemniug that law which does not
equally condemn our laws which require Regis
tration of Title deeds and Mortgages Indeed, the
protection Of the Right Of Suffrage BY an official
Registration of Legal Voters is more important
than the Registration Of Deeds, inasmuch as Lib
er.y is more vital matter than Property, and more
urgent inasmuch as the fscit es in the absence Of
Registration. for polling Illegal Votes, are far
greater than those for fabrcatiDg fraudulent title
deeds Those who raise the loudest outcry asainst
the required Registration Of Votes would raise one
quite as loud against our laws forbidding counter
feiting and mock auctions, and oil other laws
puniehiDg the procureuen Of money or goods
by false pretenses, if they had any hope Of sub
veItirg those laws.
When the Wings enacted Registry Law in
1870, the main objection urged denounced it as
par:ial because tspplied to this City alone. why
"not make it general" we we're asked: "If
:" good for any locality, it is good for all" The
law passed last Winter BY the Republicans accord
rgly applies to the whole State; but the clamor
against it is no. therefore lessened.
They who assert that this law was intended to
have partial, partisan, one-sided operation, know
better. They deliberately bear false witness, hoping
to achieve q partisan advantage BY caunnious
uptruth. The new law operates against Illegal
Voting. and that alone. OF course, the party which
polls meet OF the Illegal votes will suffer by it, but
only to the extent Of such poll. They might j1st IS
pau,ibly object to sending thieves to State Prison,
because it diminished their proportional vote, as
object to the present Registry LAW
But they are fully resolved to nulfy the opera
ton of this law to the utmost possible extent. That
is the manifest purpose of their recent action in
our Board Of Supervisors, whereby they have
taken to themselves the entire body of Registering
Inspectors throughout the length and breadth OF
our City, selecting for that most responsible and
critical duty of registering the Legal Voters of our
City persons mainly known only as keepers Of grog-
shopa and unprincipled political .nizaries. Messrs
Purdy. Bell, & Co. would not trust majority of
these men with fifty dollars of their own money;
JET they coDfde to their capacity and integrity tie
most precious rights Of the whole body Of their
fellow citizens.
That The Herald and The Journal Of Commerce
should seek to justify this most outrageous wrong,
was to be expected; but might they not have done
this without pslpable untruth +! Why do both
these Democratic organs ASSERT that the Republ.
caps would doubtless have chosen Republicans only
for Inspectors had they possessed the power
Why, Mes.eurs we did possess it, and freely
gave it up. The Legislature was thoroughly
Republican, and might have intrusted the choice
of Registrars - purely Republican Board, had
it chosen to do so. But we did not ask it, nor
would the Republican Legislature have conceded
it had we asked it. They gave the choice of Regis
trars uDreservedly to an equally balanced Board
six Republicans to six DemOcrsts-in order to
secure the appointment of capable, upright, worthy
citizens, in whom the whole community would
have confidence. Bat among the twelve was
Judas, who has been bought and paid
for as of old. The parallel i, complete, save that
the los.h,cme villain has not yet had the grace to
hang huself By bis execrated connivance, Tam
many Hall has secured the unchecked control ot
the Registering Boards throughout our City, and
We fear that the frauds Of former years will be 70
pested this Fall at the Five Points, the Hook,
among the low dens Of Cherry and Water streets,
and in some other of the rottenest localities of our
City. There, however, will prove but partial and
temporary impediment, to the vital reform inaugu-
rated by the Registry Act Of last Winter. The
moot inscriptions tools Of the Tammauy cabal
cannot so per~ert or nuiy the Registry Act, with
out susjectiDg themselves to Indictment, that it
will not largely diminish the aggregate of Illegal
Voting in our City, while the indignation aroused
by the Purdy.Bell outrage will incite the Repub-
lcsns to unusual vigilance in scrutinizing the Re-
gi.try and to re,olute exertions at the polls BE of
good cheer, then, Republicans of the Interior the
embedded fraud and ruffianism of our City will not
ard sbsI, NOT sniff % IN Overvhelm Won