New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-31

| GENTLEMEN have been favored with your
Ssrer, communicating resolution of the New
York Stale Mechanic Association, together with
.ardry interrogatories in relation to State Prison
Labor, prepared and presented in pursuance
.bereof.
] temporary absence from the city has prevented
1 an earlier and due acknowledgement Of your let
2pr. Having heretofore had occasion to express
] nv opinion on the subject of n,errogating candi-
! laes for Office, on particular topics, on the eve
afeleciions, aud my opinion on that subject re-
. mining unchanged beg leave here to refer you
pi,, expression, on the occasion alluded to, as
/ nesen,ing my present views upon the subject.
81 entertain strong doubts of the general utility
,he practice of thus interrogating candidates Tor
,utlic office ON The eve of an elcctioa. Intelroga
uies thus formally put, and explicitly answered,
5,v,hstanding any disclaimer. must still operate,
n some degree, as a pledge and thus, by Pre-
giging matter of possible future official action,
mot limit, at least embarrass the future free use
ftbai discretion which is essential TO safe and
suary exercise of delegated power, and to the
roa efficient discharge of official duty. This
p,ac,ic: too, and the answers given under it, may
Umeines expose candidates to unfavorable suspi-
IONS which are often, doubtless, as njust as they
ire unfavorable 1t would seem to be, in general,
the better way to derive the opinions of candidates
upon any particular subjects from their uniform
course in relation to those matters, if, public
men, they have been already called to act upon
Them; and, if new candidates, from their known
Characters and general opinions
although such is my opinion upon this subject,
4a a snv more otarHi particnHiar answer 70 .uen
COMMUNICATION. yet may be permitted to say,
generally, on this occasion, most cheerfully do,
that am now, as have ever been, in favor OF
such an administration Of the Government OF the
State as acts with due and ust regard to all the
interests within its jurisdiction, and to be affected
byit, whether they be public or private, and that,
in whatever situation may be placed, or called
10 scl, shall, as heretofore, most willingly CO.
operate in any modification reform of our peni-
,en,iary s,stem that while it shall more eieetualy
secure the great and benefcent public ends OF that
,,s,ein, will more fully protect private rights and
dRest the system Itself of the objections TO which
amay be Justly obnoxious, especially in regard to
The interests and character of that numerous. ie-
Hec,able and valuable class of our fellowcitizens,
the Mechanics of New-fork
With sentiments respect remain
Gentlemen, your obedient servant.
l.. BRADISH.
To sIesrs Joel Munsell E. B. Slason, A. Whitney, and
William Have, Committee.
G37 'OLD DuwoRrH' writes US that he does not
admit the authority of WEUsrER in spelling height
without the e. We are very sorry but know not
how 10 help it. In the phrase we once used, in
aus,rial enterprise he thinks industrial an awk-
ward and useless word. Will he be good enough
to suggest synonyme? He says father;
II have no books at hand to determine whether
Your definition OF emigrant and immigrant be
right. 1t may be in which case I confess my
ignorance, and stand corrected. My impression
weyer is, that the only difference arises from the
iarner mode of spelling following the French, and
the latter the Latin, and that all our standard au-
hOrs have adopted the first.
Itcan t be old Diiwor,h' who writes thus, or
ewould not try to be erudite with such poor sue
cess We think that we can bea, him. Emigrant
s, US tell him, is from and migro, e:r being the
ls'in proposition for ont Of: immigrant IS from
in and MICRO, an being the Latin for into: one
word, therefore, etymologically means 10 go ont
of, the other to go INTO. Is ''Old Dilworlh " en-
hshtenet