The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-28

French Spoliaion bill. and variety Of miscel.
laneous matter. There is material enough ia
all these questions to create stirring time.
The MUNICIPAL ELECTION REAL CUES
TloS AT IssUE.-We are on the eve Of danger
The great commercial interests Of the city and
its vast property are ut stake. Events are
taking place around us and other events are
thickenng and in preparation, which are calcu-
lated to make the stoutest among US trembe
for the safety Of the republic. We know not
the day nor the hour when dissolution Of the
Union may take place. Yet, amidst these
perils, we find faction in this city, known a.
Tammany Hall, trifing with the liberties of the
country aud the integrity Of the Union, squab-
bling about spoils on tho brink Of a murmuring
volcano. whose coqvulsions may at any mo-
ment overwhem all classes in q common ruin
In order to secure tho public plumber, little
clique Of its leaders brave all dangers to the
country by nominating man for the Office of
Mayor whose antecedents they expected would
bring him large republican aud abolition sup
port, and prevent the necessity Of that revo-
lutionary faction starting candidate Of their
own. Corrupt overtures of bargain and sale
were made to that effect The republicans,
however, believing that the democrats would
not vote for Havemeyer as they did for
Tiemann, who had no such ant-slavery
antecedents, and fearing, moreover, to
trust a man who betrayed his own party,
tad lot nf hnsr xok 10
meyer hangs republican banners on the outer
walls of the Tammany fortress, aud still hopes
for republican votes. A republican journal is
his principal organ, and solicits for him the aid
and interest of that party. He is more the
rival of Opdyke for republican votes than be is
of Wood for democratic votes. One Of the re.
publican journals of the city backs Opdyke, the
other backs Havemeyer, and both oppose
Wood.
II is easy, therefore, to see, from the
direction in which the weathercock Of Tam
many Hall points, what way the wind blows
over that tainted concern. The antecedents
Of Its candidate are quite in keeping with the
arts Of harlotry now practised by Tammany,
and its apostacy from the ancient faith of the
democratic party. Havemeyer's name is signed
to the Buffalo platform. which not only defeat
ed the democratic candidate for President in
1SaS but gave death blow to the party in
this State, by ENGRAVING upon it the antsla-
very sentiment which has kept it in dis
traction and division for the last eleven
years. A house divided against itself
cannot stand. The Van Burens and
the introduction of the Wilmot proviso
have ruined the democracy of New York State,
by destroying its unity and denationaizing a
large section of it. Mr.. Havemeyer is init
nately identified with these causes and effects
1t is no wonder, therefore, that Prince john
makes speech for him in the Old Wigwam,
which was once the seat and centre Of North
ern nationality, but is now become an ally of
abolition and den of thieves. We are told
that Mr.. Havemeyer is an honest man. He
may be SO personally; but he is identified
with the filth and corruption of Tammany
Hall, and will be held responsible for its ras-
cality before the people 1t is also said that
he is pious man, Sabbatarian of the most
straightlaced and stiHnecked sect All the
piety he has to spare will hardly be sufficient
to throw into "the Coalhole" as disinfectant to
purify the foul air of that delectable region;
and he is much more likely to lose his piety
and morality in such an atmosphere than to
make it healthy for humanity
In this contest the real issue is not merely
municipal one. In that point Of view it is of
little Importance who is elected Mayor, but a
question involving revolution on one side, or
the preservation Of the Union on the other. is
to receive its solution on Tuesday, the 9th of
December.
The intelligence Of the people Of this city,
its superior press, its great commercial int
rests, have prevented it from falling into the
ranks of free solism, as the less enlightened and
more fanatical portions of the State have done.
If there is any city in the Union upon which the
fate of the country hangs in "the impending
crisis" that city is New York. If New York
city is now carried by the enemies Of the
Union, that will undoubtedly be the prelimi-
nary step to their complete conquest of the
State. If this State is lost to conservatism then
is the country lost and the Union dissolved.
New York city is therefore the citadel of this
State, which has hitherto remained true to tho
constitution. Let it be captured and decisive
blow is struck against the cause of nationality,
from which it will never recover. Even if the
dire results which the times render inevitable
were not to follow from New York's desertion
of that cause, its material interests would suffer
in their most vital points and the fate of Boston,
from whose port the insulted and injured South
has removed its trade, would soon be shared
by the great commercial metropolis of the
Union. If the threatened disaster should hap-
pen us In the ensuing week, the best thing that
men possessing real estate in this city can do is
to sell off Immediately, even at twenty-five
per cent below the present value; and, as for