New-York tribune., 1870-09-13
M1YnR H4LHS MESSAGE.

We trust no one Will fail to read Mayor
Halls extraordinary manifesto addressed to
the Assistant Aldermen yesterday. That it
shames our City is true; but, if she wiH choose
such rulers as A. Oakley Hall, she ought to be
disgraced and has no one TO blame but
herself.
Gen. George H. Sharpe is U. s. Marshal for
this district Taking the Ninth Census is part
of his official duty, and no man who knows
him believes that he would swear falsely to
achieve any partisan purpose. The person who
impeaches his integrity from the shelter of
the Mayors Office would not venture to do it
in his presence Right well he knows that he
is charging an upright and honorable officer
with fraud on purpose to conceal, or at least
befog, the gigantic frauds which were COM
mitted by the managers of his party in the
last Presidential Election, and which the Editor
of the City organ of his party has declared
that he witnessed, and knew to be the work
of William NJ Tweed and this same Oakley
Hall.
Mr. Hall is perfectly aware that the repre-
sentatiOn of our City in either branch of our
State Legislature can be nowise affected by
the Federal Census, since it is and always
must be based upon our decennial State Cen
sus, which is taken midway between those
taken decennially by the Union. He knows,
too, that our representation in Congress would
unfailingly be based on the Federal Census,
and be nowse affected by that which he
urges the Aldermen to authorize. But here is
a chance to give employment and wages at
the City's expense to large body of Demo
cratic politicians: we presume the job will
be pushed through.
Mr.. Hall complains that our City's quota of
soldiers in the War for the Union was based
upon the Federal Census of 1850, while her
representation in the Legislature is based upon
the State Census of 1866. The law in each
case imperatively requires this-wOuld be sat
isfed with nothing else. No matter which
party was in power, the apportionment both
of soldiers and Legislators would have been
exactly what it is. :
Mr.. Hall asserts that 100000 immigrants
have arrived at this port within the last ten
years, but suppresses the fact that nine-tenths
of them pass directly through to their future
homes in the Great West. He complains that
the Federal Census was taken in midsummer,
concealing the fact that not only the Federal
| but the State Census has always been taken
at that season, no matter which party was in
the ascendant at Washington OF Albany. He
assumes that our City must have largely
increased her population during the last
ten years because ten thousand houses
have meantime been built; but he con-
ceals the fact that very many dwellings
have during the last decade, been trans
formed into stores and workshops. He care
fully refrains from mentioning our official
record, month by month and year by year. of
the deaths which occur in our City, which
afford very accurate measure of the growth
and extent of her population. He does not
scruple to utter the deliberate lie that "The
" Federal Census just taken is claimed to make
apparent that our population has not in
creased within the last ten years" And he
gives us dimly to understand that he has been
reconstructing and increasing the Election Dis
tricts in our several Wards, so that they will,
for the ensuing election, be as follows:
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