New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-13
OUR RECENT MUNICIPAL ELECTION
CARD FROM ALFRED MUNROE OF NEW
ORLEANS.
Fron The keio- Orleans Delta.

ORLEANS.
FROM The keto- Orleans Delta.
make this card O personal one, because my name
stands at the head of the firm OF Allied Munroe Co.,
and because desire 10 hold myself personally respon-
bic for what may be said in this place. have thus
far remained silent the subject OF this card for
did think that there was loo much good sense IN this
community, where have been citizen over nineteen
years for any person OF respcctabty or good Jndg-
ment 10 listen to any statements tending toward an
asperson OF my character as good cltizen or OF the
house hch represent. But lind my self mistaken.
find that am not exempt from the ordinary lot OF
humanity in having enemies IA well "a friepds-ene-
mics who seem 10 take special delight in traducng
character, and by thai endeayor TO pull down
all men to their level, finding it impossible themselves
to rite TO higher standard by their own intrinsic
merit.
II is pecessary for me here to make a somewhat
heightened statement OF facts, relative to the appear
ance Of the name of Alfred Munroe Co., among
other signatures to call in NewYork, in favor oil
the election of George Opdy to the hayoray in that
city. On learning the fact, Immediately telegraphed
TO nv partner in New York, MIR. VIM. ID. Abbat, who
ia the only person resident there who has any interest
in the concern of Alfred Mnnroe d Co. of New-Or-
leans, to ascertain what that signature mean, and
whether either he Mr.. Rathbun had signed any such
document (Mr. Rathbun being the junior partner of
the house of Alfred Munroe d Co. of New-York, bnt
having interest whatever in the frm OF Alfred Nun
roe g. Co. of New Orleans received the following
dispatch from Mr. Abbatt, in aswer to my own: !" 1t
"was without my authority or knowledge; the shop
"all voted Democratic" This of cvurbe was salts
factory 80 far Mr. Abbatt concerned and was
nothing nor less than what confidently expected
from him, having always known him TO be q National
Democrat. therefore waited the receipt Of letters
from him for further explanation. In due course OF
mail received the following:
"FRIEsD MrkRoK this morning received your telegram Of
and being solicited did n the call for the meeting our
''and at be did not at all indoTse Black RePnb
can all voted for Hayemeyer for Mayor The truth IL,
tina, the looked upon by the citizens generally
nj but the whole Dent possible. 10
defes Wood and thousands wsvered till the last moment boh
oad Be-
much Dreaded sincerely regret that this should have
ment it nigh, place in entirely false light happy
10 that h Of Se peop e nSa oens st that
they themselves hardly know that they talking about
Ing to be held very SOON which in number, and espectsby
viii convince the South that al against them
consent The hole shop voted pemocrsc You know tha.
call The Day Book sudes to, Republican but Demo
cst anew nothing Of until my attention va called to inc
publication. Yours, truly, VIM ID ABBATr"
Now, it is not my intention TO attempt do wish
to screen Mr.. Rathbun from just censure for his act
in having signed the name of the firm TO that any
other document of political nature; yet, from the
statement of Mr.. Abbatt 1t IL clearly evident that Mr.
Rathbun in signing the firms to the call, was
not in the slightest degree prompted by any sympathy
for the Black Republican party On the ehirafy he
repudiatCd any such sympathy Had he signed hs
own individual name 10 the call, should have but liz
larry wien it il well known that the election was con-
tested upon very different grounds than those ot MT
iionsl politics. II is perfectly ridiculous TO suppose for
instant that the vast majority who voted for Wood
had any respect interest FOR the rights OF the
South, than thousands VINO voted for Opdyke. The
parsans of Wood voted for him purely on local inter-
ess and many doubt, because they believed him TO
be a corrupt man, and wond allow them To feed lux
urionsy from the public CRIB.
But in signing the name of Alfred Munroe Il Co. TO
any document OF the kind, whether IN favor OF one
party or another and without consulting either OF
bis partners, Mr. RatbJun waited most nexcusaby
from what was either right, proper or in accordance
with good sense and esp ciay in this case when it lie
known that he is u DeuCcr7st, and has no sympathy
with the party 10 which Mr.. Opdyke belongs, aud did
not even for him. Mr. Rathbun has been uested
TO publish plain statement of facts in the case, aud he
will probably do 80.
This ineOnsiderate, not TO ray foolish, act OF Mr..
Ratbbun has been twisted and turned into all sorts OF
rumors and statements, and have been
st.matzed an an AbotOnist and traitor to The
South; and there may be, for all | know to the con.
trary, ga price ret npOn my head, as though I had
" been wolf" and the firm Of Alfred Munroe i 60.
has been called the Abolition" or Black Republican
" concern and has even been charged with having
contribute toward the fund TO crcniae what If called
the Helper Book - Could by any means trace 10
responsible and respectable these base nsnu
atoms, should not resort 10 this method 10 remedy
the wrongs. But, on active inquiry l lind nothing
more subsiantal than simply they say 80 aud
OF course, in n community where am well known
as am in New Orleans for such insinuatiOns 10 b.
made there must be IN ulteiOr object in view. What
that object may he, It is not nay province to divine.
But If have not sadly msstudied he chords Of human
feeling those persons who have with such wicked aud
clumsy hands endeavored 70 play upon those delicate
Instruments will lDd, instead of music 10 harmonic
with their base purposes some other strains which
may be- in discoId, and which may not be agreeable
n EN- when those chords tOu shed by the simple
9gic II truth.
II seems 80 strange 20 me that shOuld find myselin
position wheIe feel compelled by the voice Of my
cal friends 10 out in this public manner and pu
ish TO the world any defense Of my character in this
Ommrbity, where have lived long; aud | think,
wen now, If / were The ouly person involved in this
natter hat should let these vile slander6 tant
hey do only, the breath which uttcrs them, and let
hem pass by me The idle wind. But there ~ "A |
oini whisper my friends, beyond which silence amid
alnmIy ceases TO commend itself And 30 have sad |
Inns much.
will simply add that there IL not a member Of eli.
her Of the two firms Of Alfred Muuroe a Co.. the one
NewYoIk and the orc here, who is not utterly OPP
osed 10 all sentiments which are not national in thor
baacter and who is not IN the stricos sense an adj
ocate Of State Rights and State Sovereignty nthe reg
laLion Of the nerDal affairs of each State. MOI "A
lenbor Of either finn, North South, who IL, or ever
no been, either al AboitoIisI or Black Republican,