New-York tribune., 1870-10-17
,STyPPING up TIE DREGS.

We have slight fear Of riot or mob violence
in this city on the day of election; but if we
escape such outrages we shall owe no thanks
to the leaders of the Democratic party. 1t is
not new thing for them to threaten to re-
peat in local or State elections the same viO-
lence to which the Southern section of them
resOrted when they lost the election for Pres-
dent in 1860; but we have never known their
menaces so bold or their language so danger
Gus as it is just now. Ever since it became
apparent that the authorities meant honestly
TO enforce the new law for preventing illegal
voting, The World has been melting the iron
dog Democracy to resist by force of arms if
any one interfered with their time-honOred
custom of repeating and though its language
has been more cautious lately than it was a
week ago, the purpose of all its advice is the
same. 1t strives to persuade the worst class
of its followers that the proposed action of
the Federal authorities is illegal; that Marshal
Sharpe will not dare to act if the Sixth Ward
shows a bold front, and that the police and
Mr.. Tweed will protect the friends of the
party. There can be but one object in this
kind of exhortation it is to provoke riot
under which Tammany may do by force what
it is foied in trying to do by fraud.
On Friday night large Democratic meeting
was held in the Nineteenth Ward, in which q
speaker named Wolff betrayed the purposes of
the party in the most unmstakable language.
We quote few words from his speech-One
of the most outrageous which even Demo-
cratic orator ever made in New-York:
"Now, felOwcitizens, arguments have failed in this
country and if you desire your liberties, if desire
free ballotboxes IL you desire to perpeuate those nst
tutions the benefit Of your children say stand by
your arms! [Applauso If there is any right under
this Government that should be maintained it is the
right to 90 peacefully TO tho ballotbox and cast your
VOTE II this privilege then, is denied yOu say it Is the
duty of every citizen not only in NewYork but through
out the land maintain his rights My voice has always
been for peace deprecate the greatest calamity
that could befall nation but to meet war, with oil Its
sacrifices Is not dear when great principles involved
would this broad land all ablaze with excitement
rather than citizens should be deprived Of this right
would have them STAND BY THEIR ARnS!
One who did not know what this furious
demagogue was talking about would find it
impossible to believe that the law against
which he declaims is nothing but law
to secure to every legal voter the free ex-
erciSe of his right, and the "great principle"
for which Mr.. Wolff wants to stand to his
arms is the principle of casting 98 votes
in district which contains only $40 men,
women, and children. The law subjects the
citizen to no unwarrantable interference; it
abridges no mans liberty; it restricts no mans
lawful privileges. The officers appointed to
act under it are chosen from both political
parties impartially, and the Democratic decla-
ration that it is intended to "coerce" the vote,
or to exclude any legal voter from the polls,
can deceive nobody but fool. The men who
make such astounding assertions knoW that
they are not true, and their only object in
making them is to infame the passions of
the ignorant and the wicked. None but the
professional repeater is interfered with, and
none but the repeater and his employers have
nything to gain by resistance.