New-York tribune., 1868-10-24
WoRK HARD FoR GRIsWOLDt

RFPrBIICANs OF NEw-YORK! No nober or
more representative candidate could have
! been placed in nomination for your suf-
! RACES than JoIN A. GRIswoLD. Brought
up and entering upon public life in the
| Democratic faith, the Democratic party can
| make no charge against the honesty or ability OF
! the man whom they were eager to elect Mayor
| of Troy and Representative III Congress. They
| would long since have been glad to nominate
| him for Governor had he remained III harmony
| with tho ruling spirits of their party. But
| when every State controlled by Democrats
! broke from the Union and when "a majority Of
| Northern Democrats. with Seymour, Rynders,
Hoffman. and Chauncey Burr at their head,
opposed all attempts TO maintain the Govern
mcnt, Mr.. Griswold, IA n private citizen, gave
his enthusiastic exertons and freely drew on
his private fortune to equip troops. As Mayor
and member Of Congress- though elected by
the Democrats he spared no labor. vote. or
public act whereby lac could hold the Dernoc-
racy of the North to loyalty or subdue the
Democratic Rebels of the South 10 the Union
When the hour camo in which the nation
needed to inaugurate n wholly new system of
naval warfare, and that too at once, as the
Rebels then had their rams and iron clads far
advanced toward completion, and when the
Navy Department, with its proverbial drOwsi-
ness, could not be aroused to the necessity of
incurrng the pccuniary risk of building
monitor, Mr.. Griswold staked s275 900 on the
success of the enterprise, every dollar OF which
he would have lost had the McrTimac sunk the
Monitor, instead of the Monitor disabling the
Merrimac.
Where are the acts of patriotism and self
sacrifice by which Mr.. John Il. Hoffman com
mendcd himself to the country during our try
ing struggle Do they consist in having raised
the city taxes of New-York from Sll 100000
per annum under Mayor Opdyke, in 1853, to
s24, 900 under Hoffman in 1868 DO they
consist in levying on the population of New
York City s2i per capita in taxes when under
Republican Mayor, four years before, they
were only Si2 per cdpitaS
Do we find his patriotism in his speeches III
Walls street, dissuading !the merchants of New
York from trying to save the UnionY Do they
arise from the multiplicity of his salaries
Has he earned the Governorship by lend
ing his signature, without reluctance or pro-
test TO the warrants for the Court House
swindle, and to the various other plans where
by sf2000,00O of unnecessary cost have been
added to the City Government of Ncw-York9 7
Are we TO make him Governor because he
stands Ialways ready to give the public
money to his private friends while Mr.. Girls
void has used his private fortune to assist the
Government
We appeal to you, then, Republicans OF New
York, let not the immeasurable disgrace come
upon the State of having Hoffman and his har
pies installed in power at Albany
1t would give millions of dollars of the funds
Of the State to politicians political strikers, bum
mers, claquers, and "rcpeaters," under pre-
tense of relieving the poor" IL would cause
millions more to be distributed among sectarian
schools and asylums, under pretense of pro-
noting education, but really to break down
our Common School system, and strengthen
the priestly ascendency over Democratic voters.
II would break down the Police, Fire, and Health
Departments of New York and Brooklyn, where
by we are now able to secure some degree of
good government over those cities, which but
for the power of the State would be surren-
dered to the most degraded classes OF our
people.
II would distribute our canal revenues among
tho tbieying contractors of New York City, and
donble the rate of taxation on the entire prop
erty of the State, rs Mr.. ll0iiman's reign az
Mayor has doubled the taxes in New York
II would keep alive tho spirit of Rebellion
aud Secession at the South, by proving that the