New-York tribune., 1841-05-04
STATE POLICY AND TIE STATE DEBT


The Wings Of New-York must bc delighted with the treat
men, they are receiving from the neutral press OF which ;ney
are the principal support Their favor has made the self
STYLED dependet journals OF City onpoten' and the
power thus given them Systematically exerted 10 TUX the
Wing cause and build up that Of LecoFccoism Have OF
have not friends deserved this treatment at their hands
The course of the independent journals win regard TO
the State Administration and Policy indicative OF their
encral spr, and conduct Various local and incidental
causes have pred with the asaous eXc:ons ct these
very independent gentlemen of tho press reader The State
Gevernmen, less popular city than the Federal Nd
1nin.ration safer say inaturcd and ungcncroIs
things of the former than 81 Tie aiter-te impuc 10 any
conceivable lack OF principle capacity The license ;hs
afforded improved the utmost 10y our ncutras =
Throughout the winter Gov Seward and his friends haze
been assaed without stint in their colmacircutousy and
blandy some openly and avasely in otheTs-ior almost
every act done or left undonc Albany. The removal o
Morris opened fruitful field for abuse and misrepresentation
The full of State Stocks has been harfed ufon though
were not wholly owing to distant from New ob
as Labrador The Registry Law. the Cours. every thing
has been made to afford ground for clustering cuy
tacks Bat Internal improvement and the STATE Debt have
been male the theme of incesan and bitter detractoa In,
theme and the time appear be peculiarly inviting he
State debt and is always easy camor against debt
The State involved in expensive enterprises, which 10
promise ready and ample returns ihoy did weI
commenced 1t easy therefore, the STATE being in per
plcxiiy, abuse The State G0reraoRt, leaving tire
ncctng and tho uHinoncd find they may that dies,
works all commenced made, and the faith
the State pledged their completion long before ms Ad
minsraiion came into power
This game has been carried very dcxtcrouy and per
sevcrngy through the past water. NewYor~ ha, beer
made thnk and speak she did when she Assem-
bly, delegation Albany for iac up the halfdua
Erie Canal She has been made to position q:
suicidal us inconsistent with her interests and hostile
10 the general welfare thong She had ranged herself de
beratelv under the banner Notification n Rcpua
ton Of State Debts.
But a Report has just been adc the Assembly by NJ
Ho1LgY which thoroughly cxpoes-well nigh exnsuish
ss-this game Whenever that Report read the
ton must be thorough that the State Works prsgres
not the Wild Improbable schemes they have been represent
cd and that ii they were, the State Administration rot
responsiblc-hu under the circumstances whca existed
when the Wings nto power there alternative
but TO proceed firmly aud energecaly the completion
the enterprises which the State had already largely
yolved herself.
What is the of the ;adcPsn2en press with resar'
to this brief and irnpor;aa; document;
The Io,7,ai Of Commerce confident mas passed
over it in solemn silence neither publishing auGae
TO lis existence
Ths Herald carbss few Of its statements and attempt.
in It's characteristic fashion swagge and i,pioa
validate them suppressng entirely the greater portion Of the
Report.
TIE SIX brngs up the publishing any rsyt q
the Rcpor, nor even stating its leading positions, but bare
naming it, aSd sh,A padding off eagerly Mr.. Hoffman
L.. ,-,,,.,, which has r.rI
Hsled but which abstrac. appears the Albany Argus
which better answers its Independent purposes. The gen.
,cral fac, ha the State is heavily involved deb sab
sanaly admitted by both Reports says The SSa and
then proceeds TO give Mn Hoffman cxhib;, caiy, she"
that all the money the State all that ii viii
take to complete I'LL the works hitherto commenced AID al
that would cost to construct all the works which have been
talked Of but not authorised wonld together make vcH
large sum- Who doubts it 1t easy in this way 70
make up friglfl exhibit Of the aar> Of John jacob N;or
Now ihc general fact aforesaid, truly stated
IN the sun Ncwlork is heavily debt She owes
considerable indeed bat sac proa9efire Public
Works orti nearly double TIE r3ole sun Her Revenue
sr,m those Works than sufficient 10 pay every
charge upon them, including entire dc5,
though not oaeka the money she has expended has vc beer
made productive Her Revenue ample Is is steadily
increasing If the Erie Canal Enlargement completed
it would double in years The Sun itself another par
agruph states that tcga part OF the choice wheat land
in Michigan Wiskoasan Norlhern n2;aaa and ILLINOIS
yet put under the plough Consider what etes' the rdu
ton from thirty fifty per Of the cost Of transporting
grain to mar>c, uron the production of this
region aud up-a the OF s trade to Nrw-lorks
saw whether that Enlargement the extrasan. and
less project which Loco-Focoi>m represents u
The sun among other talacics, that all parties
soasiier i, 1.-The Improvement policyl wrong, is ut