New-York tribune., 1868-08-24
1ROUT NFVYORR.

time 10 answer our querlStS seSeIdHy' W heIe
their letters imply that we have private
0pinion different from that which we express
in these columns, we have no wish to answer
them. we pretend to no exclusive, no occult
sources of information. Here follow some OF
the considerations which underpin orr convic-
ton that New York, like most OF her aster
States. will vote for Grant and Coliax:
I. Since the Republican party was formed,
il has never failed to carry this State OIL
vigorous canvass and a full poll. though it has
often failed at other times. 1t was badly beaten
in 1855, yet it gave Fremont 10000 plurality IN
1856. The State went against us the next year
OS5O 10y heavy plurality on light vote;
yet we elected Gov. Morgan in 1853 by nearly
10000 plurality In 1859, the combined Demo
cratic aud Know Nothing vote beat several OF
our State candidates; yet in 1860 we met the
supporters of Douglas, Breckenridge and Bell,
compactly arrayed against us, and beat them
by nearly $1,000 majority. Up to this time, 1t
had been said, ''YOu Republicans are but
plurality: if your adverSaries were united, they
would overwhclm yOu;' but, when they d'd
unite, they were beaten most Signally.
In 1861, a Union ticket prevailed by very
large ndJOIltg, lhousH cCJ HiVui' i''''''
Church g. Co. did their best to defeat 1t; yet
in 1862 they rallied all their forces under
Seymour for Governor and, in the absence
of fifty thousand of our voters at the 'front.'
they squarely beat US by 10000 majority Inc
very next year, We reversed that Judgment
bv 10000, and in Ca we turned Seymour out
and gave the vote of our State TO Lincoln
Jy seven to eight Thousand majority. We held
the State firmly in 6j and G6 but lost 1t III
the general collapse Of 1861. .....
Thus, from the day in which the Republican
party was formed, we have never lost this
State on a full vote, never lost it twice III sue
cession, and ncvor lost it twice in the same
Presidential term. We are confident that this
year will establish no exception to these rules.
An enormous, unprecedented proportion Of
our voters were absent in Emope and travelling
on business in every direction when our
last years State Election was held, Our
net loss from this cause WIS not less titan
Twenty-Five Thousand votes. Then the results
of the elections in California Pennsylvania,
Ohio, &c, had disappointed and disheartened ms.
OF the four Republican dailieS published in this
city, three were doing nothing 90 call cut our
vote but very much Cwe thoughO TO keep it
away from the polls. our local legislation and
Canal management had temporarily disaflecicd
many thousands of earnest Republicans. So
the disasters of the year eliminated in our
defeat by Fifty thousand Majority; swcled
from Ten to Twenty Thousand by fraudulent
NaturaizatiOns, and by double aud treble vot-
ing in this City and Brooklyn. ...
"B But can't they cheat You Just so (or worse
this year'"
No, they cannot. We shall be widc awake
and on the alert this year. We shall be watch
ing the villains who make trade of voting
illegally ut the Naturalization mills, at the Reg
istrics, and at the polls. They do not fear the
officers whose duty it is 10 prosecute them 70
punishment; but we slnll make the State too
hot for thcm if they attempt TO repeat the
wholesale frauds OF recent years, especially
last year. ..... tr...t .......r
We arc awake aud at work. Our watch-fres
never vet burned brighter 80 early in the can
yass than they do to-day. Our rank and file
were never more Jealous, more confident, nor
more active. They are more confident of Grants
election than we wish they We're; Tor they work
best when somewhat. apprehensiye OF defeat.
But there Is hardly G0publican in the State
who does not personally know Of some changes
in our favor aud there is danger that TOO many
will regard or triumph as already secured.
We do not want one illee,l vote pplled for
Grant and Colfax, and shall not have a hund-
red in the entire State. Wa have at least -Four
Hundred Thousand legal voters who desire that
our candidates should be and believe that they
will be elected; and there are not Three Humid
red and Eighty Thousand legal voters in the
State who desire Seymour's election. Every
vote he gets above J75,0OOJhe will owe to de
berate and concerted fraud ."a.E ..4
Still, we have a very difficult, arduous, ener-
getic. canvass before us. Thousands of our
voters are absept i'll Europe and on voyages in
every sea. Many are travelling on business, Or
looking through the West and Southwest for
future homes. If tAe election were Tomorrow,
we should not poll our full vote by at least
Fifty fThousand. TO call our voters hmne from
every quarter ia work requiring systematic
effort 1t can only be effected by an efficient
organization in every election district and
most effective canvass. Then we have to fight
cofiee-colored Naturalization papers aud
legions of alien swindlerS who mean to vote if
they can aud as often as they dare. The work
.pequired is imuleDsci yet IL must and will be
done. II IT p,isll ...'-
Friends, North and South, East and West
do not distrist New1York! She never failed
you yet at a critical moment except in 'G2,
when at least Fifty Thousand Of her npblest,
voters, wore carrying muskets in Dixie or
sleeping beneath It's ~ turf The casualties of
war have seriously cut, down our majority, but
have not destroyed it. You, will baye to work
very hard and to very, good purpose to do
'better in yonr several States than, the Enpire
Statewill do for Grant, ColiaS aRdia loyal
yP9aeel n9i0b QHgli 6aa .bfA) 90 sro.i1rq0 $500
.lll 49, - u - 40 L.