Year: 1863

| The Approaching Meyorelty Hiecthoh
in y National Psins or View.


The approaching Mayoralty election Is sort


Of prelude to the Presidentid CANVASS. Before
q great battle the generals generally review


their trcops The politicians Of this city look
| upon the Msyorslty contest as dress parade
of their forces previous To the more serious


business of the election Of President 10 this
point Of view the present canvass assumes


national importance.


| Last year the democratic conservatives car


ried everything before them. The issue placed
before the people was that between conserva-
| tisui and abolitionism, or the Union and the


negro, as the paramount object Of the war The
people everywhere decided in favor of con-


servatism and the Union. II both parties had


held the same positions during the elections OF


this year the result would also have been the


same. But, on the contrary, the Issue


was totally changed, and the result was
| totally different. A faction OF the demo
| cratic party, led by the twin Woods and
the twin Seymours. became so elated with


the success of last year that they thought they


could do anything they pleased with the people.
Consequently they boisted the white flag,


marched boldly over to the peace party, and ex-
pected the masses to follow them. On the other


hand, the republicans prepared for action like
| pirate ship when a trader is in sight They


hauled down their black flag and set the Ameri-


can ensign. They painted out the old name Of
their craft and called themselves the Union
party They sent all such revolutionary and
| radical ruffsns as Greeley below decks, and
| brought forward their most respectable looking


men to make good show. They said not
| word about theinevitable African-whoi is really


their god--but talked loudly Of supporting the


administration, standing by the government,
and prosecuting the WARTIME phrases, which


may mean everything or nothing according to
the spirit in which they are uttered.


This change of tactics upon both sides raised
an entirely new issue. 1t was no longer the
conservatives against the abOlitionists but it
was the war party against the peaceat-any price
party. OF course the people decided in favor
Of the war party. We have often asserted, and


every election has proven the truth of the as
sertion, that the loyal masses are equally op-


posed to dishonOrable peace and to the


schemes of the abolition radicals, and equally
favorable to q vigorous and to conservative
prosecution of the war; They are willing to
let slavery take its chances; but they are not


willing to have the abolition of slavery made


the supreme end to which the energies of the
government are to be directed. They are will
ing to accept peace at any time, provided that


the restoration Of the Union is thus secured;


but they are not willing to accept any peace


which permits disunion, present or prospective.
In these three sentences we sum up the entire
significance OF all the elections during the past
two years. 1t would be well for our pOliti-
clans to carefully and studiously consider them.
BY their neglect to learn this simple lesson the
| democratic leaders have destroyed their
party, and the republican leaders have
been compelled to resort to aliases
and other tricks of the swell mob
in order to keep up a show Of strength and
popularity. The victories they have recently
gained under false names and false colors are
as unsatisfactory as the apples Of tho Dead
Sea. They look like nice, plump trumphs; but


they are only ashes and disappointment. The
next Presidential campaign will aunihiiate the
republican party. The peace party is annihi-
lated already.


Now, at the point where a deluge stops it


must begin to rocede. The deluge which over
whsined the democrats 1T the recent elections
stopped at Tammany Hall, and at Tammany
Hall the reaction must commence. The
Tammany managers have kept their skirts
toierably clear Of the peace mire They were
foolish enough to associate with Mozart


at the State elections but still they pre-


served their identity, and did not suffer
| as much as might have been expected from the


bad company in which they were found. All
OF their distinctive candidates were elected in
this city; and that is sign that the people have


yet some confidence in Tammany Hall, aud be-
,icve her professions of devotion to the war for
| the Union. Thus complimented and encour-
| aged, Tsmmany will now 60 over to the war
| platform, wholly and sincerely. Her first can


didate under this new regime is City Inspcc
| tor Boole--a war man. an honest man, strong
| man and an experienced mail--whom she re-


commends for the Mayoralty Against him


arc arrsyed Mr.. Orison Blunt, the republican


candidate, aud Mr.. Godfrey Gunther, the cop
! perhead candidate and the friend of peace and
rioters. Mr.. Boole ought to be, and probably


will be, elected. If so, Tammany, assured OF


her power and of the appreciation OF our peo-


pie, will at once undertake to reconstruct the


democratic party upon her war platform and
! her conservative principles. IL not, then both


the radicals and the copperheads will be again


cmbodened to essay another attempt to obtain


control of the general government. Thus it is


that our Mayoralty contest is most important In


national point Of view, and its developments


will be watched with anxious interest by all


parties at the North and by all the different


classes OF rebels at the South.


GOVERNOR SEYMOUR AND TIE ALBAsy RE-


GEScr.-Governor Seymour and the Regency


have destroyed each other The Regency has


lost control Of State politics and can do


nothing for Seymour Seymour has talked the


Regency out of power. The Regency has go


identified itself with Seymour, and rce cersa,