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Show pTHE CO.HI1G KW YOUIC ELEC Si TION. 1 There is trouble in the air for the Rooming New York election. Troops; nave been concentrated around thej eity; deputy marshals have been en j rolled in great numbers; and the most j s.ringent measures are being adopted; it by the Federal authorities. The mutii-j oipal authorities view this as au inno- Ivation, aud talk loudly; and the muni j Ictpal authorities of a city with nearly u 1 million of inhabitants think they havej sia right to be considered no small per-j fsonages. Mayor Flail issues proclama- 3 ions and marshals his adherents, aud Shis party threaten resistance to Federal jiuterftfreuce. It is very difficult to arrive at just I conclusions concerning the real question b it issue in New York, from the violent a partisan tone of the different neivs-1 neivs-1 papers published in "Gotham." Take Ithe Republican papers and accept I cheir statements without discount, aud New York is the vilest nest imagiuable lof fellows without honesty or con gscience, who would vote the Democratic ticket in every precinct, and as often Iduring the day as they could go from lone polling place to another. They lliold that the action of the Federa; ruthorities is imperatively demandeo Ito enforce the law of Congress and goreserve the purity of the ba lot-box. Having become satisfied that this is che correct view, one has only to take! up the Democratic papers, and a dif-l afferent phase of the situatiou is pre- Rented. The "repeaters" are said to 5 be Repubhcans, the action of the Fed- j eral authorities is called flagrant u.-ur-i jpatiou, and the Democratic voters, itg is intimated, are all as pure a.- I Parian marble and as innocent i lof wrong as unconscious babes. sAud so the preparations fo: I the election go on, each side grow-j aing daily moro bitter,and breathing out j p"threatenings and slaughter" against j each other. It is a national calamity that the pleading city iu the Itepubfc should; I present such a spectacle. The purity j of the ballot should be maintained at 'i tny cost, for it is the guardian of . jche people's rights and liberties; and ?that such a conflict should arise, or-I or-I the necessity for it exist, is really la-f mentable. It is to be hoped that the; smoke is greater than the fire ; and it-would it-would be matter for national congratu- lation if the election could pass over! without serious trouble, and all partie.-j jstrive to maintain right and justice,! Ijthe honest use of the ballot, and a tri-,' umph in purity to a majority of voters.' It would be a sight so infinitely noblei; jtoseea patriotic struggle for the ele-f vation of country, instead of an einbit-gtered einbit-gtered contest for the triumph of, 1 party. But with the two great parties par-ties in Xew Y'ork divided amongst: I themselves, as well ss contending with! seach other ; and heaping accusation.--on leading members of their own par-' ties, the prospect is not so luminous' las pure patriotism could wise it to be. i & ! |