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with promptitude and severity. The insurance
companies have also right to adopt similar
measures for their own greater security. Where
SO much life and property and such important
national interests are at stake every ordinary
precaution ought to be used to insure safety,
and certainly the government is justified in in
sstlnS that the same strict discipline which is
required on board steamers in the service Of
private companies should be observed on
board vessels freighted with troops and gun
powder. The same regulations that govern the
navy ought to be enforced on board transports
and stricter supervision than hitherto main.
tanned in this branch of the service.
The Coming AfayoraIty Election and the
Country.
There are certain aspects in which the ap.
preaching charter election is beginning to
assume an appearance, which it is Of the high
est moment should not be welcomed by the
conservative portion of the citizens Of this me-
tropolis. Upon its result may indeed depend
the solution Of the question whether the city Of
New York is to become, henceforth, political
spoil of abolitionists, or preserve the posi-.
ton it has hitherto held of unwavering devotion
to the constitution and the laws. We do not
speak now of the contest for aldermanic and
other subordinate offices, which possesses sig.
nifcance only 80 far as relates to local govern.
ment, just taxation, and the general manage.
ment of city affairs. Neither would the strife
for the Mayoraty, almost worthless for good
"a that position has become, in consequence Of
interference in our concerns by the State Legisa-
ture, rise to a much higher level than squabblca
over school commissioner or trusteeships, il
merely metropolitan interests were affected by
its occupancy. In spite Of over twenty
vetoes Of pecuniary appropriations, during
his present term Of office, by Fernando
Wood the burdens of taxation are increasing
instead Of diminishing, and it is evident
that the Mayor has but little influence to
prevent frauds and profigacy Of expendi-
ture. The United States is engaged, however,
in gigantic struggle to suppress terrible re.
bellion, and the forthcoming election has di.
rect bearing upon the efforts of the govern,
ment to accomplish that object. The abolition
faction in our midst is straining every nerve to
elect a candidate to the chief magistracy Of
New York, upon basis which shall make ii ap-
pear that the voters Of this city are identified
with their views, and DESTROYS of the success Of
their incendiary and diabolical schemes. It is,
| therefore, an absolute necessity that the whole
moral weight of the community should I'D
thrown into the scale at the coming election;
that this iniqAtons project should be utterly
overthrow and defeated; and that a we'll
known constitutional conservative should be
elevated to such power as the Mayoralty con-
| fers
Mr.. Fernando Wood, the present Mayor Of
| New York, is one OF the most accomplished en-
ecutve officials that this city has ever possessed.
In spite of calumny and the TRADES Of his ene-
mics, he deserves to be esteemed, as an undoubt-
| ed patriot, who thoroughly comprehends the
affairs of the country, and the rights Of the peo-
pie of its different sections The citizens of this
| metropolis have three times manifested theip
confidence in Mr.. Wood, by raising him to the
Mayoralty; but he is now forced before the
public, by the enemies Of order and of the adj
ministration, in new capacity, namely that Of
| champion of the conservative element in the
| community, in opposition to those who are
seeking to undermine its prosperity, and rob il
Of the good name it has hitherto held fast to, Of
uncompromising hostility to sectlonalism, and
| the wicked Vaccinations of the anti-slavery enc
| mics Of the Union. 1t is on this ground that,
| one week from to-day, he will, beyond question,
be reelected to the Office he now holds.
| There has been party in the Northern
| States for over thirty years under the influence
| Of British aristocrats, and upheld by subscrip-
| tons from England, which has ceaseIessly la
bored, by the agitation of the slavery question,
to rcnd the United States asunder, overthrow
| its constitution, and reduce it to anarchy.
| Under the motto, ''the constitution is league
with hell and covenant with death, )" it has la
bored on and on until its internal agitations have
eliminated. in civil war. The two principal
| instgators OF abolitionism, as political lever
with which to destroy the landmarks placed by
! the fathers Of the republic, have been the
Tribune and the Evening Post To the first Of
these journals was mainly owing the disruption,
and the final destruction, Of the glorious old
| wing party, and the latter was the organ of the
! faction which divided the democratic organiza-
| lion, rendered it powerlcss for good, and paved
the way for its extinction. Slavery was the
| apple Of discord used by both of these papers
to accomplish their ends. Now they have united
| together for the purpose Of presenting Mr.
George Opdyke to the voters of New York as
the representative of their views, whom they
hope to secure the election of, in order to make
it appear chat the fell spirit of abolitionism has
taken possession Of this city, and that the good
| sense enlightenment and enlarged conservatism
of the masses Of the community had been over
ruled.
Mr.. Opdyke and Mr.. Wood commenced life
much in the same manner. While the latter
was poor boy in New York, the former was
in similar position in New Orleans. From
the station of a journeyman tailor in
the great commercial mart of Louisiana, he
has risen to great wealth, and high place
among our merchant princes. here and is es-
teemed one of the most enterprising and saga