New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-27
NEW.YORK.
GEN. sIGEL AND THE TEMPERANOE CAUsE.

My personal preference was for some other
name than Gen. Sigels at the head of the ticket for
State officer. honor Gen. Sgels patriotism, but L
disapprOve of his course in opposing the Excise law
equally disapprove of the position Of his opponent
Hon. H. A. Nelson.
1 learn that some of my brethren of the Sons Of
Temperance" have issued circular which invokes
the Prohibtionists TO erase the name Of Gen. Sigel
from ballots and to substitute the namo Of Mr.
Nelson This circular seems to me eminently I'M
wise, for the following reasons
l. The election of Mr. Nelson would bs no victory
for the friends of temperance.
2. If we temperance men erase the name OF Gen.
Sigel the anti-prohibitiOn Republicans may retail
ate by refusing to vote for Mr. Horace Greeley, who
is a lifelong advocate of total abstinence.
g. 1t is eminently important to secure the Legsia-
hve which alone has any direct vote on the question
of restricting the liquor traffic. For two years past.
the Democrats in the Legislature-with scarcely an
exception-have voted against our Excise law. The
Republican members-with scarcely an exception
have voted for the Excise law. Now if we, friends
of temperance pursue course which gives wanton
and gratutOus Offense to the majority Of the Repub
lcans in the next Legislature, we shall endanger the
perpetuity of the Excise law.
NV first intention was to erase the name of Gen.
Sige from my ballot. On careful second thought, 1
believe that it is my duty TO rOte for him. and by 50
doing believe that shall serve the interest OF
cause that lies very near to my heart Fellow phi
lanthropists! let act generously toward our Ger
man fellow citizens and then we can the more
readily persuade them that seek their real good
when we endeayor to restrain them from violating
the holy Sabbath by the sale of spifituous liquors
Yours for Law and Order, THEo. L. CUYLER.
AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS.
The undersigned, citizens of the State OF New-fOrk
in behalf of their brethren whom it has pleased God
to make Black, and who on that account denied
the political rights and franchises of citizenship.
units in this earnest appeal trusting that the Father
of Mercies will incline your hearts to hear and heed
US.
On Tuesday. Nov 3, at their annual State Election.
the voters of this State are required to vote directly
for or against the maintenance of the Constitutional
restriction whereby men of color are denied the
Right of Suffrage unless they shall have resided for
the preceding three years the State and are free
holders to the extent Of at least $3.50 over and above
all debts and liabilities. We ask you to vote against
the continuance Of this most invidiOus and CALLING
discrimination.
1t were vain to reason against a stigma which
makes no pretense of being being founded in reason.
When this disability first imposed by the Constr
tuition of 1921, New-York was still q slayeholdng
State Slavery part and parcel of the unwritten
law of the Union. Stakeholder was President Of
PASNN~~O1~NN
had been. Cotton was rapidly advancing to that
commercial predominance which it soon sfterward
attained. An avowed answering abolitlonist could
nowhere expect to achieve high position or influence
No one hoped to see the day wherein either Of the
great parties would nominate an enemy of Slavery
for either President or Yice-Presdent.
Our oppressors exulted while our friends deplored.
that Slavery was mpregnably intrenched behind
the bulwarks Of the Federal Constitution Very few
even hoped that they would live tosee ours country
wherein all men are free. How great and glorious is
the dsliverance since wrought, need not here in
dictate.
American Slavery is dead; but its spirit survives.
and our race are still its defenseess victims. We
are few poor and despsed. You are relatively many,
rich and powerful and you make US realize tho gulf
that separates us. We are shut out OF schools and
semnaries then tainted with our ignorance; we are
excluded from workshops, and fouted as idle ard
Leggarly; every avenue to political or social emf
neuce is sterny closed against US, and men wonder
that we lack energy, thrift, and aspiration. The
Egyptian requisition of brick without straw from
the children of Israel was mercy compared with tho
usage we experience from protesting Christians God
grant that you may never feel do the agony OF
seeing your children insulted and tortured, for
pretense of cause OF reason but the color which they
inherit and which it is beyond their power to
change.
What we ask Of you is the recognition of our man.
hood We are taxed rs men, conscrpted to defend
our country when iii peril men, punished for any
nfraction of law at least sternly as other men:
WHY should we not vote as meni We claim no
emption: we ask no favor. We only ask that our
voice, feeble though it be, may be heard in common
with yours in choosing those by whom the laws
to DO made aid executed. He who rejects our prayer
virtually proclaims that there is no right and
wrong in politics. and that the rule of the strongest
is the law of society and the dictate of Heaven.
We most respectfully solicit the prayers of every
Christian henceforth, and the vote of each and all
on the day of election. We ask every religious jour
nal, of whatever sect or denomination TO publish
this appeal forthwith; and we entreat every minister
of the Gospel, without distinction exception. to
present our cause and. petition to his flock in the
course of his pulpit exercises on Sunday Oct 81. III,
out of the fulness of his heart he say something
in our behalf. much the better; if not, let him
read this appeal to his flock and ask them to respond
thereto in the spirit of Him who is no respecter OF
persons and who is prominently God of justice
and freedom. Yours imploringy,
Rev. CuAs. B. RAY Congo. Rev. J. PETERSON (Episcl.
Rev. 4: NJ FREEMAN PRS, MLLLIAM r PowELL
Rev VIM sPELMAS tBap1 JAMES ". DUFFIS,
JOHN j. ZUILLE.
Hec. York Oct. % 1863
TILDEN's TACTICS.
We give the benefit of gratuitOus circulation
to the following private circular Of Mr.. Samuel j. Tdeu
Chairman OF tile Democratic State Committee. Exactly
what Mr. Tlden wants Of the ten earnest and active
Democrats in each election district" is clearly
e expressed; but remembering the Kind OF service
required by Tweed Co.. previous TO the last election. In
the distribution of fraudulent naturalization papers, and