The Ro,, Of the Drum:
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TO-DAY the Voters of Ncw'Yor choose
their Municipal rulers for the ensuing year. The
issue is involved in uncertainty, but the righ is
clear and urgent. For WlnGs-for friends OF
HENRY CL,y----for advocates of the careful
and udicious PRorEcrioN or lloMt l-AnoR-
there is but one true course and that is 10 dr9w
our erery Voter FOR rIH REGULAR VINO CANp.
DATES. This is saic--is poli,ic--is just We
know that very many Wings, who utterly coA.
,icmn the Native bigotry, viii vote for Mr. Harper
because they deem him the candidate most likely
to beat the Loco Focos, but ii is mistaken policy,
and they will have reason 10 regret IT. Tins
sOLp GuARp' SHOULD STAND ~ ITS EAGl.Hs -
And, by the way, VIC will quote from the ErprsSS
a report of Mr. 4. L. Tomnson's rcmarks at
the last Wing Young Mems Meeting at National
Hail. They arc our sentiments, and would have
appeared in columns at tho time bat for our
absence in Connecticut.


Said Mr. Tomlinson,-


u NAV well rejoice hearts, that the blast OF the
same old old bucle again calls MS 10 arnS-that We
,athrr again under the same old banner that has
stood so many fight, aud thai has 50 often coNcrod
us with glory-and with yourlcaVc, we Will not now
depart from il. but stand 10y our true faith TO The end
On the eve of contest tha, may lN the dcSines oi
the Country, as well us ot The City or the State the
question is, shall ,tandh Old and tired irend,
known for his faithful services and pubic wr''h,
and true to his Principles and his Country, on shall
we desert A man, too, that has always been a
Whig-that has always consulted the interest o his
marty and of his Country too. Nor is this mere
Municipal Election, the speaker went on 10 say, for
i, involves questions siitcuug the interests I" the
cra, Wing party and oithc Country nj large, Yet
men are called upon leave ranks IN this Elcc
uon who have always been tfac, aud lhcsc rs reason
to fear that men who have never 4uaicd 10 the ioc
will leave the old Whis hsnncr Tor this once, aud
fight in another cause.


| am in the habit OF speaking plenN. and ss l
think to the purpose. therefore must dwell upon
the danger that there Is OF good Wings leaving their
own party in this MUNICIPAL election, aud oi eUnis
over 10 enlist IN other ranks. Il is because honor
and rspcc, them. that call upon Them 10
stand bv ms, ave, to staai by Us. Every where, IN
State and County, the Whs cause is advancing.
Every where Wing principles are III the ascendant
Then, why leaNc us now Pom, me 10 4 section ot
this broad-spread land, where Wings have The power,
and tell me II there be not there good government
from Whig reform. WHY, then, | earnestly ask,
why then leave now, when with You we can have
good government and reiorm here st home We
are American al heart, American IN pyincipe,
American IN name le children, then, @, foreign
ancestry. say TO Nou ALL for we all have sprung
from European Stock east no, OFT those who are
coming YOU from the bowels ot Eurcpcan deSpot'
ism, but receive them 10 Your boSomS, ante wi;h
you under the brrsd hanuer o the common Rspub-
lc OF us ALL descendants from like European stock
(Grcst cheer'ns.l


Let me warn YOU, ii youdo cas-, them OH fame
will spring up, that will consume YOU all. No0 viii
Se denounced for Your iilieerahy, Tor Your in,per
anec, for your bgouy, Tor Your Sublectoa 10 PRIEST
Graf in an a,tcmptto resist the very PrieStcr, whch


certain class foreigners alleged 10 he subjected
TO- Don't he misied, say,-but cling 10 ,our par
~, cling To you, principles and suffer the m,rod,,c
tion OF no new crreds. The Wing pa,ty,-and here
is the distinc ton between and the Native Amer
cans-,hc Wing party, as party, have never mani-
tested anv partiaity men ot ioIcsn hiTth. Sctie
have done SO, l know,-bu, they are but lew. and
these few relinqushed their psGtiality soen. We
have never hatcred the foreigner as the Loco oco
dcmacogues have done-but as & party, We have
done every thing for the toeisner IN doing every
thing we conid Tor the best Interests OF the coni',
trv at large. We have told them not 10 suffer
themselves TO be designated here as lrtShmen, or
Epglishmcp, or Germans, but 10 insist upon being
called Americans, and of no, being known by any
other name, when once they took the oath OF attic
glance TO the country they had adopted. 1t should
Be our duty TO welcome them as Americans. when