Year: 1862

1ne Coming state Eiecti0ns-The Issue


in New York.


The coming Stale elections. and particularly
the election in tie State Of New York, are preg-
nant with such Tremendous consequences that
If the people conld only understand them in all
their length aad breadth there would be such
revolution at the poAs as would 60 far to
arrest the rapid progress Of the republic to dis
solution and anarchy. Upon the State of New
York, more than upon any other in the federal
Union, depends the fate of the country for veal
or for WOO. Yet we fear that, owing to tho
amount OF money that will be brought to bear,
the operations of the army contractors and
other corrupt influences, together with the fact
that the people are not yet fully alive to the
nature Of the crisis through which they are
passing, the candidate of the destructives will
be elected. and the conservatives will awaken
too late to sense of the real condition of the
country. The success of General Wadsworth
in this State would be the success of the Puritan
Roundheads, who presume to dictate morality,
religion and legislation to the whole continent
and it would be the prolongation Of the war
till the army and navy contractors bled the
North to death and destroyed the South by the
same process.


II Wadsworth succeeds let us expect reign
of terror, such as he inaugurated at Washing
ton, when he arrested even the officers of justice
in violation Of the constitution and the laws Of
the land, to the disturbance Of the white popu-
lation and the confusion of the poor negroes
who could not understand what was meant for
them by the Military Governor Of the District
Of Columbia. If Wadsworth succeeds every
man who differs with him in politics will be
arrested, and despotisn will be established in
this State such as has not existed in modern
times in any nation pretending to free institu-
tions. The truth is that Wadsworth is an aris.
tocrat of the first water, and claims his position
not from any merit Of his own, but from the
wealth of his ancestors, derived from the op-
preston Of human beings far superior to ne
groes. If Wadsworth is elected let the people
of this State look out for tyranny such as has
not been experienced in any other country in
modern times If unfortunately, he should be
chosen Governor of this State, he would have
all his political opponents arrested and con-
signed to dungeons, and their property seized
and confscated under the act of Congress. The
issue made by his organs is that every man
who votes against his election is traitor, and
consequently is liable to be stripped of al the
worldly goods that he possesses, together with
his liberty, if not his life.


If, therefore, the candidate of the revolution
ary radicals should be successful, we are ap-
preaching period like that of the Roman pro-
scriptions, in which Marius and Syla, Caesar and
Pompey, in turn ostracised the whole people
and con6scated their property. The success of
the radicals is therefore the ruin Of the coun-
try. 1t is bloodshed and civil war without end


On the other hand, the success of the conser-
vatives in this State would shorten the war, by
restoring the Union through the operation of the
Magma Charta Of American liberty-the consti
tuition of the United States-the only shield in
this hour of the nations peril against the double
danger of anarchy and despotism. The Presi-
dent desires to save the country by clinging to
the constitution as the anchor of hope during
the next three months after which the revolu-
tionists expect saturnalia Of blood and crime
which will make our posterity blush till the last
syllable of recorded time. 1t is the part of the
conservatives to strengthen his resolution to
stand by him to the last, and to rescue him
from the hands of the radicals in his Cabinet
and the hands of the base wretches outside
who, in this hour of the nations weakness are
lowering over the spoils and plunder like
greedy buzzards and vultures, utterly regard
less Of tie fate of the republic, which so re-
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