New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-17
THE REGISTRY OF VOTERS.

To morrow is the day set apart by law Tor TIE
first meeting of the Boards of Registry throughout
the State In Election Districts that have no more
than 400 voters the work is to be done IN one day
where larger number appear or are presumed
the Board may sit for two days. Our readers are
familiar with the efforts of the Democratic party
IN tb, Civ at first TO defeat this law, and failing
in that. to turn it to their own advantage. They
know how, by stretch Of power as dlssracetoi as
it was UNEXPECTEDLY the deliberate violation OF
solen compact-the Tammauy party under the
lead Of Profane Bell, War Horse Purdy, and ex-
Alderman Tweed Of the Infamous Forty nave
seized upon the entire poll of New-York, and re-
fused anything Like decent representation TO the
Opposition-how they swallowed, without nausea
spd without inquiry, the prescription of Tammsny
Hall; how Bell, fugle-master-in general and slave
driver in particular, deliberately pronounced their
yillany the work of God and boosted that no would
cheat, deceive, and outrage the Opposition to the
extent of bis ability; how, in pursuance Of this
policy the most ignorant and interruptions tools Of
the conipirators have been set to scrutinize the
qualifications of the Havemeyers, the Bleeckers,
and the Stuyyesants of New.York to the right Of
suffrage, and with OK cathedrs insolence to bully
the men whose names have for two centuries been
the pride and honor Of the city.
We have taken extraordinary pains to learn
something of the men thus selected as Registrars.
1t was emphatically the pursuit Of kno Wedge un-
der difficulties. Upon inspecting the official list,
we found that the men who appointed them were
not permitted, in great many cases, TO know any
thing of the residences or occupations OF the per-
sons named at Tammany Hall; that they swallowed
in bulk twenty, thirty and forty names at guIp
without questioning their fitness or even their ex'
istence. When it became the duty of the Clerk
Of the Board 70 inform these men Of their appoint
ment, the Supervisors did not know who they ~ere'
nor where they lived, and the Clerk was in such a
s,.te of ignorance a. to be obliged to make dis
Gram of the Election District under consideration,
find perhaps a dozen men Of the same name with
the Registrar, and only guess at the right one BY
choosipg some prominent rumleler OF shoulder
hitter as the most probable representative OF the
"iucarnaie devil Democracy.
II has been heretofore stated that Of the 600 men
chosen to decide upon the American right Of fran
chse over AGO. or two.thirds Of ell, are Of foreign
DlItp; LDdL LLCIC oAC INcu1y va osiiSnof no
many Micbeys, full show of Terences and
Pbehms; with few ScOtchmen and Germans,
making up about two foreigners TO one American.
Upon careful investigation in all quarters where
information could be expected, We have made out
tolerable liz. of the trades AID pr)ft ssons Of the
Registrars We find Of the 609 that g. are rum
sellers directly, and PROBABLY enough more to make
rasllc in th- husinpsa. that I'D
ID City Offices, and 80 in the Custom. House; that
30 ere not in the directory at all, aud "a have no
recognized business Here, then, are nearly half
Of the GOO of whom 10 good account can be given
Aswomen who keep houses Ofill-fane are recorded
as "widows," or keepers Of boarding houses,
&c, gamblers, ard others who live BY their wits,
sristOcraticaly record their names only without
business or professional location. When the State
established Grand Jury TO decide upon the lives
and Liberties Of tie people, they required that such
men .hould be reputable citizens who had an IN
terest In the preservation Of law and order. When
the Democratic Supervisors were 70 select men TO
decide upon the dearest right Of freeman-the
right to yote-ttey selected some OF the most
WORTHLESS vasatonds known to the criminal records
Of TIE Policemen whose existence is q foul dis
grace TO the City, whose business is sub
vsrsiye Of morality and At war with decen.
cy Hhote whole lives have been scenes Of
crime, fraud, and violence. The professional
bruiier, the besotted rumseller, the common
lOafer the gambler, policy dealer and rufi.n, had
prominent places Over q district comprising
.Dgulaily respectable portion Of the City, were
placed two scsmps whose names are Synonymous
with prize fighting and rowdy infamy. In other