The New York herald., 1870-10-14

In November.
At the last session OF Congress two acts
were passed which, being approved by the
President, are parts of the supreme laws OF
the land in relation TO our political elections.
One Of these acts is designed TO enforce the
rights OF all Citizens regardless Of race or
color, In elections for members of Con sress, and
to prevent frauds In such elections. The
other act is intended to prevent frauds
at all elections, State or national, upon
the naturalization laws. BY these acts
embracing arrests, trials, judgments and
penalties-a rigid supervision Of the registries
and of the elections and election returns are
given TO the United States courts and marshals
and the deputies of such marshals in any
number deemed necessary, in all cities of
twenty-five thousand Inhabitants and upwards,
In the prevention of frauds and of unlawful
Interference with the rights Of legal voters.
Indeed, il required, the United States Marshal,
in the enforcement Of these laws, may call into
requistion the army and the navy Of the
United States.
There Is nothing, however. in these laws
against which any honest voter. in favor of
honest elections, can or will enter an objection.
The constitutional authority Of Congress- as
exercised, is full and clear. Congress has the
express power to spass uniform rule of
naturalization the power ITO prescribe the
time, places and manner" Of holding elections
for Congressman, excepting only the places
where Senators shall be chosen; the power to
enforce the fifteenth amendment in reference
and the general and comprehensive power ito
make all laws which shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution the ferego-
ing powers and all other powers sested by this
constitution in the government of the United
States or in any department or officer thereof.
These now election laws Of Congress, there-
fore, for the special prevention of frauds In
elections for members Of Congress, for tho en-
forcement Of the rights Of colored voters, and
for the suppression in all elections of frauds
in naturalization papers, are perfectly c0nsti-
tutional and win be satisfactory to all honest
voters IL pushed to the most rigid enforcement.
Yet the fact is notorious that the democratic
politicians and journals generally, and espe-
cialy the fire-eating State sovereignty copper
head leaders and organs Of this city, are per-
fsctly furious in their denunciations Of these
acts Of Congress as radical usurpations aud
unconstitutional atrocities which must be re-
sisted even TO the last extremity. One of these
copperhead organs goes so far as to advise the
democracy that these unconstitutional laws Of
= usurpiDg Congress cannot be enforced
against the local authorities Of the city; that
if tho United States Marshal shall attempt
with his deputies to overawe the s'nnterriied'
at the polls those offensive deputies can be
arrested by the police and locked up till the
election is over, and 80 on. In short so un-
scrupulons In its counsels of resistance to the
law is this revolutionary dre-eating champion
Of State sovereignty and old municipal demo-
cratic usages, that its bloody instructions, If
followed up, win surely culmiuate In sangui-
nary riots on election day. Nor are we GER
tain, from the existing signs of meditated vio-
lence, that the city will escape the disgrace,
the terror, the confusion and the general dan
gers OF an appeal to mob law in our November
electi on.
1t is charged that the heavy democratic
majorities rolled up in this city are largely
the product of fraudulent votes from repeaters
and ballot suffers, false counting and doctored
returns that some districts return as many
votes as they have population, others one
vote to every two Inhabitants, and many
vote twice or three times exceeding the legal
number of voters; that the ascendancy Of the
democracy in the State depends upon these
fraudulent majorites of the city, and that the
fear that the party win lose the State in being
shorn of their fraudulent city votes and
returns has driven the party managers here
to the desperate alternative Of resisting these
laws of Congress by mob law and mea-
the sachems Of Tammany, in the gloss
OF their new honors, powers and emoluments
and upon their good behavior az the control
ling junta Of the city and State, contemplate
any snoh desperate expedients as violent
conflict with the supreme authorities Of the
United States. We cannot conceive that they
are such fools as to encourage any such de-
signs among their ignorant followers but,
remembering the July riots Of 1868, we know
how great fire sometimes little spark may
kindle. We know that we have ''the danger
GUS classes" in this city as they have in all
other large Cities. and we know that in times
of great political excitement few reckless
demagogues may lead these dangerous classes
into mischief We know, too, that the dems-
cratic party in this city has large body Of
followers from these classes who follow only
s'their own sweet will, and that these dis
turbing elements have given to our city cleo
tions too much OF brutal control and too much
of the character of a mockery and farce.
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