New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-26


citizen Of the district, AID to demand taas sai
lame be plsced On the Registry on tie strength OF
HI. Affidavit that lie krops the person thus named
and proposed By him to be q lego! voter. lac
minute. Of the Board should briefly stass these
facts 80 tina. TIE propo.er Of one who is not legal
voter msy be preceded sgsinst for perjury or mis-
dtmesror.
III. FaeilIy.-The stsyid notion that every per-
,on entitled to vote must attend to The reg s!fason
Of bic name, has made mary enemies TO q registry
From three TO twelse persons ia each township are
ell that need give any personal attention to tai'
business. lie! TIE senior member OF the Board
fret write down the nsnes ard residences OF all ne
knows TO be legal voters in tie district let the
iunioI member acd the names OF any who are Ike
wise known to him to be s1cb; and now let the
clerk or any citizen fcllOg-the Journal OF the
Board showing on whose motion each name was
placed on tie hst; and, within three hours from
the opening Of the books, all the legal voters Of al
sversge district, with at mos; hall dozen excep-
tons. vii have been placed OF tie list Now les
the Board adjourn TO dinner, aud let he clerk be-
gin st once thereafter to arrange the names Alpha
beticaIy, Numbering them from the top as sfore-
said: snd l.. The Board sit in the afternoon to re-
ceiye further names should any be proposed and
youcted for and before night this business Of regis
traitor, which has been made such bugbesr, will
have been substsntialy finished. Ii viii be nece.-
say 10 hold meeting for revision, as has already
been stated; but if the work was done right IN the
6rst place, oil beyond Will be mere form,i'y, and
not one voter in ten need take the leas; trouble
about the registration from first TO last. II you
are voter AID side with any party tie active
members Of that party will take care that yOu are
registered; if your political preference is unknown,
each side VII be eager to register you in the hope
Of establishing claim TO your good viii.
". EeOnomy.-Let the Act FIX the day Of regis
t,stion (sLd the place so near as may be-, and
there can be little need Of advertising them; 80
with the day Of revision. We do rot believe
Board need lit two days to register the names in
any district which s able 10 vote at single poll in
one day. At all events, ten ceLts per voter regis
tered should cover a tae expenses of registration.
We know that opponents of Registration have
boasted that they could make the law odious by
of registering; we know that the law can head
them Of on this tack, and it should.
V. Rerisi0n and PermGHsHcy.-The Registry
once made, should be made forever. One week
before each Election, the Board Of each Ward or
ownship (not Election DISTRICT should hold g
msetrg-tte day ard place designated by la1-to
strike of the names of oil who shall hsve died or
removed ,nce the last reysion 10 transfer from one
election district to another those who shall have 30
migrated; end to add those who shall have become
voters in said township by immigration, naturaiza-
ton, attaining their msjOrty or Otherwise. Half
day should sufics for this work in any township;
day is simple time for any ward; though it may
be proper to allow the sitting to run into second
day where more than two hundred nsmes arc 70
be stricken of or inserted. This done, let the
revised list be deposited, and a copy delivered to
the inspectors, as before.
VI. Naturatzed Cit;.tns--The Act should sim
ply let them alone. A voter is voter; If there DO
any doubt in the case OF one whose name is
proposed for registry, let satisfactory evidence be
required and produced. Whether he became
voter in one wsy or another is no mans business,
provided it be proved that be IS one.
VII. Totirg by The R'gisred.-We arc op-
posed 70 this from top to bottom. Let ample facil
tiles De afforded for the registration Of every legal
voter, whether be be present ABSENT lot the vgi
lacce committees Of each party hunt up all thelegal
voters they can think Of; let the Registry DO kept
open TO within three or four days Of election il you
will (thouah We think it should be closed week
before but once closed, let it stay closed till the
next revision. We know il is possible that
wsnderer may suddenly return from the ends Of
tie earth on the very morning Of election, and,
csimirg to be citizen, desire to vote; but if he
be good citizen, lie viii ray, 1.-The law is fair and
"ju.t; to let in my vote at this time, would be to
"open tie door for letting in tlOussrds Of illegal
votes; aid l prefer to wait till shall have been
ga week in the country before claiming the Right
" Of Suffrage" We do rot Think any reasonable
court would decide this TO be contrary to the Con-
stiuticn if any should it will be time TO open the
oodgstes of fraud, when tie judges shall hare ZEN
dered thk inevitable.
Such are cur views on the general subject Of
Registration. Let US hope that the Legislature
will act on that subject decisivtly and speedily.
HIGH POsTAGE-NO REFORM.