The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-09-08
Our New York Letter.
New YORK, SEPT. I'd


POLITICAL ITEMS.
New York now stands before the country
with the objects, aims and plans of both par
ties fully discovered. Our candidates for
Governor are chosen, and in their names are
contained multitude of suggestive facts and
differences. In the one case we have Edwin
d. Morgan, man who has earnestly striven
for every office that was thought to be with
in his reach, and who has already created
among the body which has nominated him
dissensions which are irreparable while he
remains. On the other hand, we are intro
duced 10 Horatio Seymour, whose name is
held in veneration which approaches the
supreme q man whom the office has sought
out in his retirement, and whose acceptance
it has begged with such pertinacity that he
could not refuse; q man who unites all
sections of the Democratic party, and who
brings to its cooperation every one who
wishes to see the end of corruption in the
National Government.
Between Seymour and Morgan there can
be no doubt in the minds of any as to the
result. The significance of the nomination,
to those outside of the State, lies in the effect
which they will have upon the prospects of
the Presidential candidates This cannot
fail to be very marked, The Republicans
by putting up Morgan, man in sympathy
with every act of Grants Administration a
man who has never raised a finger to lift one
ounce from the burden of the people; a man
who has been chosen merely because he will
furnish money to bride the voters, have
pledged themselves to q continuance OF all
the infamies which have disgraced our Gov
eminent during the period of Grants rule.
The Democrats, on the other hand have
shown themselves the fearless opponents of
corruption the determined champions of the
peoples rights, and the uncompromsing up
holders of the Nations glory and prosperity.
Governor SeymOur's nomination means pll-
rity and uprightness in the whole public
service, the continuance of the work which
Tilden has commenced in the State, and the
support Of him when he commences the same
kind of 1abors with the National Executive,
The moral effect of the nomination cannot
fail to be great. 1t will show the citizens OF
other States that New York is in earnest in
the canvass, that she will honorabIy and
courageousy maintain the ground she as
sumed at the st. Louis Convention, that in
their efforts to rid the country of the foul
excresences which have fixed upon the public
body, they will be well sustained and that al
they have to do is to stand firmly by the
standard of Reform which has been uniurled
1t shows them that they may take heart, ant
that if they keep up their courage and deter
mination, the evil days that have falleI
upon the country will draw to speedy close
The Grant Administration may use it
brutal power to intimate the negroes, and t,
arrest on frivolous charges the citizens of TIL
South, who ore disguised with their name
q Of procedure. The office-hoiders may b
taxed the whisky thieves may purchase i'm
munity from disturbance by subscribing t
the electioneering funds, Morgan may thro,
his ten thousand dollar checks. all over til
country Fitzpatrick may faunt the blood
shirt In. Indiana; Wheeler, Poland an
Bristow may do the same in Vermont, an
Frelinghuysen may resolve that as long ,
he can find one he will wave it in New Jerse
All this will not avail 1t will be the was
Of so much idle strength and useful none