New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-10-29
EREEMEN or WYORK!

name OF DelnOCIdCy lHlO OppOslhS tHC luCd
which that name should represent, really ex
pect to carry that election and are working
desperately to that end. The voters whom
they control live mainly in cities and villages,
within a stones throw of the polls; while yOu
are scattered over hill and valley, many of you
five to ten miles distant from your respective
voting places. They can visit, warn, enroll and
rally their voters, at comparatively no cost OF
time or trouble; you must spend days in
properly canvassing a rural school district con-
tanning two or three dozen voters III ALL
Hence their sanguine hopes.
They do not expect to Outnumber you
they know that is not in their power. But
they do expect to bring nineteen out OF every
twenty of their voters to the polls, and that
YOU cannot rally more than nine-tenths of
yours and that, they calculate, will secure
their triumph.
They say. "Thus we have just carried Penn
"sylvania by less than 1850 majority why may
eve not thus carry New-York p
We answer, BECAUSE you WILL NOT LET
THEM.
They beat you in 1862, because Fifty Thou
sand of your voters and but Ten Thousand OF
theirs were then in the field against the ke-
bellion: that discrepancy gave them Ten Thou
sand majority on the Home vote but your breth-
rem in the field voted in 1864, and the State
went for Lincoln So it did in 49, % and 'G6,
though they confidently hoped to beat you the
last two years.
Beat them now, and the Presidential question
for 1868 is virtually settled. If you allow them
to beat you, yours will be an uphill fight
thenceforth till the President shall have been
chosen.
If they succeed through your apathy or heed
lessness, their triumph will be exulted over by
every unchanged Rebel in the land.
1t will be hailed by Andrew Johnson as
verdict for his policy and against the Recon
struction acts of Congress.
1t will be plausibly claimed as a decision by
New-York that the loyal Blacks of the South
should not be cnfranchised, but RENTED TO
the control of their former tasll-masters.
1t will be claimed as your verdict that every
Rebel State has a right to instant, uncond
tional restoration, with her loyaists under the
feet of her embittered Rebels.
1t will be- in effect, a base surrender Of your
friends at the South into the unchecked power
of their and your foes.
1t will be New-York's reputation Of Gettys-
burg and Apprenticeship declaration that the
Rebellion was justifable, and its suppression a
victory of Force over Right.
1t will tend to arrest the progress of peaceful
reconstruction, now so happily proceeding at
the South, and throw the States back into in
definite turmoil and confusion.
1t will be a signal to the inveterate Rebels
to stand out, resist every form of Reconstruc
ton, until their Northern friends shall have car
Iied Congress and enabled them to put their
feet on the necls of the PROSTATE UnOnists.
Republicans Unionists! brethren! You must
not allow your adyersaries to succeed YOu
have the voters necessary to beat them-lOok
you that you bring out the votes!
The day may be stormy; the roads may be
bad; the air chilly and forbidding-but these
cannot affect your duty and must not relax
your efforts. BE prepared beforehand for any
and every emergency!
Pay no heed to the fabricatiOns which allege
that very little is done or doing by your
brethren in some other locality. If they were
true as they are false, they would not excuse
your neglect of duty.
If any unworthy candidate has been nOmi-
mated for your support, cross his name off
your ballot; but be sure to put that of a good
man in his place. Never fear that the cause
will suffer by this course Our State Officers
are eminently worthy and capabe-even their
enemies could only object, on their nomination,
that Controller HILLHoUsE was not among
them. His name now stands second on the
ticket, and you must not let him be beaten!
BY your fraternal memories of dark days
ended and fearful perils past-of great and
terrible Rebellion suppressed and the Repub-
lie gloriously saved-by your joyful pride that
-Four Millions of your cOuntrymen have been
unshackled and are now blessing God and
thanking you for their liberty-by your firm
and high resolve that this shall benceforth be
a nation of Freemen, wherein innocent Labor
shall no more be driven by the lash to unpaid
and homeless tOil-by your faith in Heaven