The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-08


lance of power. We approve of these Northern
Union ratification meetings. They will serve
to quiet the apprehensions of the South. But
political action, under political organization,
is the thing. Thus q balance Of power repre-
senting body of a million and half Of vo-
tiers can be brought to bear upon the two exist
ing political parties, or between them.
Let these popular Union meetings, then, be
pursued to the point of organization and &C
ton. Give the solid masses of the people
lever and a fulcrun, and they will overturn the
sectional parties Of the day. The crisis is upon
us, and when bad men are leagued together,
good men should combine.
Our New CoRPoRATIoN-WnL WooD KEEP
Hrs PRoMsEss-The voters Of this metropolis
succeeded on Tuesday in electing the vilest
and most rascally Corporationwe have ever had,
prominent among its members being three in
| dicted criminals-one under Indictment for
murder, another for plundering the treasury,
and the third actually under sentence Of i'm
prisonment in the Penitentiary for felonious
assault. We may be prepared, then, to see
every kind Of corrupt job fourishing In the
new Common Council-opening of streets here,
widening streets there, making railroads in
another direction, and q universal scene of
plumber and robbery all round. 1t depends
upon the Mayor alone to check this fearful
tide. Mr.. Wood has promised, and we pre-
sumo intends, to carry out thorough reform
in our city government. We will hold him
strictly to his pledges and we believe that he
is the only man able, firm and efficient enough
to insure us good government. We will look
to him now to put stop to all infamous frauds
and corrupHons in the Corporation. All the
old patched-up charges against officials and
contractors should be ventilated, indictments
pressed on, and the whole system Of our local
legislation radically altered. 140>
We supported Wood because we believed
him to be the only man who was equal TO the
emergency-the only statesman who is able to
meet the crisis boldly, and because we did not
see single one of the many charges of NAL
feasance against him substantated. There was
much talk about some business transaction
between him and his partner; but such trans
actions occur every day in Wall street, and no
one ever hears q word about them.
Fernando Wood now occupies most pro-
minent position before the country. Let him
faithfully adhere to the pledges he made be-
fore election, to purge the municipal body of
it's rottenness; to reduce the ruinous expendi-
ture of the public money, and keep down taxa
ton. Let him resolve to make the best Mayor
New York has had since the days of De Witt
Clinton and, indeed, in many respects, his posi-
ton now, and the circumstances around him, re-
semble those of Clinton. He stands now the rep
resentative of that national conservative senti-
the commercial prosperity and greatness Of this
splendid metropolis, and of the entire North,
Sustained, as he has been, by the national par
| ty, arrayed against fanaticism and abolitionism
in their different degrees-and in this critical
moment Of time, when the practical results Of
| their teachings occupy theattention Of Congress
and the country-his position becomes some
thing more important than that Of chief ma
| gistrate, and his success assumes more than a
local signifcancy, as will be seen by the effect
| of his action in the Charleston Convention-the
delegates to which body should be elected at
| once
| Wood is able enough, if he chooses, to grapple
| with the monster of corruption which disgraces
our municipal government, and is crushing
down the people with a load of taxation. From
the Common Council just elected there is
nothing to hope, except greater rascality than
before; for it is composed mainly Of the very
debris of the lowest Tammany degradation.
We shall look to Mr.. Wood, then, for remedy,
and we shall keep him to his pledges to insure
us wholesome government.
TERRIBLE REvULsIoN AMONG THE Niger
WoRsHIPpNG NEwsPAPERs.-There is great ex-
element among the staunch and straight repub-
licans in reference to the course of Jefferson
Brick in the late election. They accuse him
of treachery to the cause in lending his col.
umns 10 the free soil candidate Of Tammany
Hall, instead Of supporting the thorough going
republican candidate of his own party. The
loss Of the election to Tammany Hall has been
Solferino to Brick, and in the elbows Of its
Mincios he has lost the sympathies of youth-at
least Of allrepublican youth while he has failed
to gain the confdepqe Of any other party. In
fact, ne has fallen to the ground between two
stools. In short time he may be expected to
be seen in full fight before the Austrians Of
Tammany Hall, as he fed last summer be-
fore the Austrian hussar on the road to
Brescia. number of his subscribers are
going over to the. Tribune, whose increas-
ing circulation is breaking down that Of the
Times The SIN is in the same predicament;
it has grown dim, and will soon cease to
shine A few weeks ago the SIN offered to
sell itself body and breeches for 100000. We
doubt If 1t would now bring 100000 cents Its