The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-05
The Election ro-aay-The s,ce.s,onists,

Negro WOrSbfppcrs anu JODbers.
The day Of election which is to settle the fate
| of the numerous candidates for Office in this
city and State, is at last upon us, with a fair
prospect, as far as this city is concerned, of
there being meagre vote, and but little atten-
ton paid to it, except by the politicians. AS
far as the great and vital question of the hour
is concerned, all parties and every faction have
planted themselves on the same platform. The
republicans, the Tammany men the Mozarters
and all other organizations have declared
themselves in favor of prosecuting the war and
sustaining the administration. The moral effect
of the success Of either party will therefore be
the same. They are all in for the war, and the
public can congratulate themselves, as far as
the cause Of the Union is concerned, that the
result of to-day's election cannot be otherwise
than declaration in favor of putting down the
rebellion. In fact, public sentiment has settled
that question in advance by forcing every party
and every candidate upon the Union platform.
We are therefore enabled to declare, in adj
vance Of the official count of the votes, that
New York, on the 9TH day of November, re-
corded an overwhelming verdict in favor of the
Union and the suppression of the rebellion.
With this view Of the field, which every can
did and disinterested person who has paid any
attention to the political movements must arrive
at, the contest in this city, at least narrows
down to personal squabble for power, inllu-
ence and the spoils Party lines are all oblite-
rated, and men of all parties, of every shade of
political sympathies, are jumbled in together,
pledged to the same platform. Occasionally,
however, the cloven foot sticks out, and the true
feeling Of the politician exhibits itself Thus,
every now and then, Raymond, of the Times,
and the Tribune philosopher, open out against
the administration, and revive their cmancipa-
ton and negro worshipping policy of former
occasions, showing conclusively that if they or
their faction are successful the negro question
will again be revived and made paramount to
| all others, the restoration of the Union not ex-
cepted. With this symptom Of agitation staring
the people Of this city in the face, it is the duty
Of every lover of the Union as it was, every
friend Of the present administration, to see that
none Of this class Of abolitionists from Ray
mond down, are placed in position where
their negro agitating and emancipation schemes
will be brought officially before the public.
The opposite extreme, or the secessonists,
| likewise exhibit their true nature whenever
an occasion offers itself, as was manifested at
the late Mozart meeting, in which Mr.. Chatfeld,
while declaring that he was for the war, yet de-
nounced the arrest of secessionists and seces-
sion sympathizcrs But he was eilectually dis
posed of by the Kisses and groans of even the
Mozart democracy, showing that such secession
ideas will not be tolerated here. The seces-
sionists having therefore been completely put
under by public sentiment let the people, by
their verdict Of to-day, seal the fate of the abo
litionists by scratching all such agitators as
Raymond from their tickets, and send the aboli-
ton negro worshipping agitators and the rebel
sympathizers, the twin enemies of the Union,
to the same political graves.
There never was SO opportune moment
as the present for the complete overthrow
of all enemies to the Union, as well as
the legislative jobbers, japanese philosophers,
Broadway railroad patriots and schemers
of all kinds. Party lines are obliterated,
and are no longer binding upon even the
greatest sticklers for party regularity; and
| since all parties claim to no un the same plat
fo.... 80 for the war Is concerned, we hope,
for the sake Of the city and nation, that all such
enemies to the Union as abolition agitators, also
| every person who has disgraced our city either
at Albany, at the City Hall, in Japanese, rail-
road and other jobs, or has been mutineer in
the army, will be scratched from the ticket by
every honest voter, and men whose past career is
unblemished by any such foul stains be inserted
in their places. Let none but honest, upright
men, and men of integrity receive the endorse
ments of the voters Of this city to-day, and an
important step will have been gained towards
Kidding the city of the official corruption that
has swollen our taxes to such an enormous
figure that 1t is almost impossible for a poor
laborng man to make both ends meet Let the
Japanese philosophers, Hackley contractors
Broadway Railroad patriots and Bull runners be
repudiated at the polls to-day, and there will be
verdict rendered that cannot fail to rebound
to the good Of the city, State and nation.
TRICKS OF TAMMANY.-We have received a
letter from a hozarter declaring that Tammany
is trying to cheat them by printing tickets with
| the names OF Mcneil and Barbour in the place
of Hoffman and Woodruff This is no new
trick, and it is the business of the politicians
to look after all such tricks not ours. 1t is an
old game well followed.
| How TO END THE WAR WITH ECLAT.-Tt is
pretty evident from General McClellan's recent
declaration to the Pennsylvania delegation,
that he era is approaching of sharp and decid-
ed conflict. We may soon look for battles, and
the overthrow of the Southern rebel armies: but
when this task is accomplished, about the best
thing that could be done would be for the adj
ministration to catch Messrs. Jefferson Davis,
Cobb, Floyd, Toombs and Wise on the one side,
and Garrison, Beecfer, Greeley, Checver and
Wendell Phillips on the other, and hang them
| all LID in a row together. From tie fanaticism