Year: 1870

The Republicans of New York meet by del
egates in State Convention, at Saratoga, on
Wednesday, September Z. The place is hap
pily chosen: for there the State Convention at
which the Republican party was formed as
sembled in 1854 and there are abundant hO-
tells, and everything requisite to render tenn
porary sOjourn agreeable. The number OF
delegates authorized is large; yet, we trust,
hundreds more of leading Republicans will
meet with and counsel them. Let us have a
Convention wherein the public voice is fully
heard and gladly obeyed.


New-York is Republican State. She proved
it by the magnificent majority of Fifty Thousand
which in 1860 she rolled up for Lincoln and
Hamlin, against the combined efforts and ex-
pendtures of all the anti-Republican factions
closely cemented, with "The Union in dangerw
for their common war-cry. Never was there
a fairer canvass nor more conclusive verdict.


Of that majority, at least half, with the
heroic WadswOrth at their head gave their
lives to preserve that of their country. They
perished in the swamps of the ChckahOminy,
on the bloody fields encirclng Manassas juno
ton, on the shell-plOwed slopes of Gettysburg
in the Wilderness, at Coal Harbor, and beneath
the defenses of Petersburg. Had full vote
been taken the day after the War closed, the
net loss of the Republicans of our State in the
protracted and arduous conflict could not have
been less than Twenty-Five Thousand.


We are further subjected to an annual loss
by migration. TwO-thirds of those who emi-
crate from New-York to the West are Repub-
licans while their places are taken by Euro
peans, of whom a majority vote against us.
But for a considerable accession of War DEM
ocrats to our ranks, and the adhesion of most
young Americans coming OF age to the Re
publican standard, we could not have given
Grant and Colfax the majority of Twenty
Thousand which we did give them, of all the
votes legally cast in our State. Of these, some
Five Thousand were cast by citizens not iden-
tilted by sympathy or conviction with the
Republican party.


We can poll our full vote, or even our fair
proportion of such vote, only at a Presidential
election. At every other, tens of thousands of
our voters are scattered by the exactOns of
their business all over the Union, and beyond
its limits. Hence in 1853 we were able to give
Gov. Morgan but 17,44O majority; whereas two
wears later, with no change in the latent
strength of the respective parties, we gave him
over 10000. His vote was more than 100000
greater in 1860 than it had been in 1853.


We have the uphill fight to make this year.
Allowing the State with its canals to offset the
patronage of the Federal Administration, we
have the immense patronage of our City gov
eminent with that of nearly all her sister
cities solidly arrayed and desperately welded
against us. Not less than S2,00O,0O0, stolen
from the Taxpayers of this City and the stock
holders Of the Erie Railway, will be poured out
to reclect Hoffman, if so much shall be
deemed necessary. And the squirming of
the Democratic managers in view of the acts
passed by Congress to prevent frauds in natu-
ralization, in voting, and in counting indicate
that they have already taken the alarm. We.
therefore, advise every elector base enough to
sell his vote not to be satisfied with beg
carly IS, or Sl0 but stand out for 800, or at
least S5O and the Tammany dynasty will be
compelled to accede. Their necessity and