New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-19

From Bangor u San ri"hViSco oBicot ih"'
iority of the citizens Of scven-eighths Of the
Cities of the Loyal States have submerged all
past political differences in a common and alb
sorbing resolve that the Union shall emerge tri-
umphantly from its present fiery trial. Au-
gusta Bath, Portland; Portsmouth. Manches-
ter, Concord Boston, Lowell, Worcester,
Springfield; Providence; Ncw.London, Nor
wich, Middletown Bridgeport, Norwalk; Phil
adclphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Erie; Whining
ton; Baltimore, Hagcrstown, Frederick, Cum
berland; Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, Steu-
benvle; indianapolis, Lafayette, Tcre lIaute;
st. Louis, Jefferson City, st. Joseph Denver;
Virginia City, Genoa; Placervile, Sacramento,
Siockton-givc decided and often overwhelming
majorites for the Union tickets though many If
not mos, of them were anti-Republican in by
gone days. and gave majorities against Lincoln
in 1860. They thus vote, not in Difference to
any party dogma, but in pursuance of their
overruling purpose to "sink or swim, survive
or perish" with the American Republic and our
Federal Union.
Why should Ncw-York. Brooklyn Albany,
with most of the cities of this State and New
Jersey, and part of those OF Connecticut, stand
in conspicuous exception to this rule ~ Partly,
doubtless. by reason of the intimate and extern
sivc business relations Of most Of them in past
times with the rulers Of opinion at the South.
The lordly gentlemen from Dixie who used to
favor with their custom our dealers in dry goods
and millinery, and who were also liberal pur-
chascrs ION long credit of carriages, saddlery,
farm implements, &c, &c, from the cities on
either side of Us, let it be distinctly understood
that they did not bcstow their patronage upon
those whom they were pleased to stigmatize as
Abolitionsts" wherefore an extensive STAN
pedc of men whose pccuniary instincts made
them Wings Of twenty years ago into the en-
braces Of Fernando Wood and Capt. Rynders
There are great many persons, especially III
cities, whose religious, political, and all other
assoc a,ions, are purely mercsnary profess
and seem TO believe whatever they from time TO
time suppose most propitous to their own per-
sona fortunes. They live for money, marry for
money, dress for money and spend their day.
and nights in schemng and dreaming for more
cash, more houses, more horses, carriages and
fine furniture, and can't conceive that any one
should DO 40 "flnliical" a. not TO be governed
entirely and always by like impulses with their
own.
Yet even these are. in their own poor way,
Unionisis Though their conception Of The
moral character of the present con'es, may be
very inadequate they have an exalted, even er-
aggcraied, notion of the pecuniary advantage
Of our political connection with the South IL The
Trade and Industry Of the North. They seem
10 fancy that the Southrons came here Ia bny
because we and they lived under The same Fed
eral Goremmcnt-not because thcy could OBJ
tain what they wanted cheaper here, and on
longer credit and poorer security than el-ewher"
All ,h.,. want the Union rrs,ored-ii !. only
their lingering. vanishing hope that the Rebel.
may be coarcd or bought back. TIA, rcndcr-
them reluctant ,odemand aud sustain vigorous
prosccution.of the war
But one great, invcieratc obstacle To the i'm.
mediate and decided triumph OF the Union cause
in this and other cities, il the dcfcctiyc--nay,
Incurably yicious--maohincry by which our can.
didate. are now ground out. So long a. this
shall be retained and deferred 10. We shall no,
and cannot have that general rally 10 tho Union
flag that We otherwise might and should have.
We mean no dsrcspcct 10 the many excellent
candidates who are presented through our Con
ycntion machinery, when We say that II Is high
time that machinery were utterly repudia'cd
and discarded. Until men shall gather
grapes Of thorns. or 6gs Of ,his,les. that
machinery must prove n nuisance and n cure,
and must give us, for a large share Of our
candidates. men who neither command nor
deserve the confidence Of the community.
Let us suppose Members of Congress were
TO be chosen next MONTH by whose votes would
our candidates be selected Notoriously not by
the more intelligent, considerate, unselhsh of
our citizens, but by u very different CLASSIFY
men who have axes TO grind Of some sort,
and by the blind tools whom they hire or use
% turn the grindstone. The meetings 20 choose
delegates 10 nominating conventions are inrccs;
their results. if presented a. embodying the
choice Of the voting constituency, are frauds.
rabblc of mere hirclings too often make the dele
gates; their nominee il the man who will pay
most for the dubious honor. OF course, We
know that this is not always the case; but the
system tends directly 10 this, invites it, and
sooner or later secures IT, The only nomna-
tons that are likely to be fairly and worthiy
made are those which nobody wants.