New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-20

fire off their resolutions all, at all. All, but this
is funny world
| U' The leading article in the last Loco-Foco
Piebeiar, Levi ID. SlsmE. Editor, is directly cal
culated, and seems 10 be plainly intended to insti-
gate the Dom party in Rhode Island to burn the
| honses and Garns of the Government party And
this after the latter ha. called Convention to form
| State Constitution, and extended the Right OF
| Suffrage without regard to property There Is u
depth of depravity in this incendiary brayado
| which disgraccs the age and city in which it can
be so coolly displayed.
B- The Brooklyn Eagle says it cannot state
a. truth our account Of the non-eoction Of Senator
| in Tennessee Very well: will it give rs arm
account in full of the matter We only wish its
reader. to see Somehoc why that State has no
Senators in Congress. As TO the enly item in our
account il cavil. at We can show that Mr.. Samuel
II. .Turney, the Loco toco Speaker of the Senate,
himSelf admitted in debate that he represents a
Whig District. We can also give the vote for
Governor in hs District, exhibiting a Wing ma
ioriry. VIII not TIN, answer!
But the Eagle proceeds:
BY the way it rike, that have unsettled
nh the Editor of the Tribune. Our readers viii
probably ecoes former oon'rovsrsy touch iat beau
iifu Federal seHtment- 1he posess'or D Prop,ry a
proof of raerit" We charged paternity 10 Federal
seeisg Masonic iia-the Tribune densd IT, IN coarse
terms, and challenged the proof Well ~ produced 10
proof printed staring capitals. and darad hmt IA copy
t. He slent-~e claimed the vieoy-he qulbbled,
said he had lost the paper, Nc
Now We do not intend ever again to racddie
with the unfortunate author of the above para
graph, but wa will Just once more exhibiths mis-
take. to the eve. of the public His .na assertion
was not what he has made it above his and our
readers well know, but that THE WHO PARTY,
IN the Presidential contest Of 1910, deliberately
proclni,ned he doctrine that 'he posfession #
Property is The TEST Of Merit. This we
promptly denounced as a very fragrant untruih-
one which, from any one who understood what he
said would be a very strocous caluNpy Such
we now emphatieally pronounce it, The slender
and only foundation on which ii rested was this:
4 meeting OF New York Merchants, called with
no reference to party, and thosght Of tho Pre-
siden,ial Election of 40, was held at Masonic
hall in 1897, at which an address was put forth
saying that Merchants apt regard the
possession of Property, rather proof not the
| testl of merit than otherwise. This is the sole
| foundation on which the Eagle asserted, net that
"a Federal meeting at Masonic Hall" (Which it
| said nothing about till afterward bat THE WHIG
| PARTY" had proclaimed tn. sentiment that Pro-
| perty Is THE TEST Of Merit And now, having
| shown that the sentiment was not what he stated,
not pat forth in the Presidential canvass of l34O,
and not proclaimed by the Wing party, any
one authorized or protesting to speak in il. behalf,
we take leave Of the ssb,ect.
| The whole caiumny Is one of the base.t and pal
| ,rcst weapon. of the lower order of politicians.
| If our late Van Buren Custom House Officers had
| held meeting, and in repelling ,or>e imPutation
on their body, mad declared that they considered
their holding office rather all evidence Of merit
than otherwise. it would have been bad enough TO
hold their party responsible for the sentiment but
to garbe it and declare that the Loco-i oco, had
distinctly proclaimed the principle that Office
| holding is Tnr TtsT Of merit. would have been
stretch of yiainy richly deserving the pillory.
| " The Loco-Foco, Of Troy have undertaken
very dirty trick, which will yet return to plague
| the inventors. They got up a meeting on Satur-
day night to camor for PrOt.etire Tarig, and
| for .yrrender Of the Land Distribution IN or
der to secure that great end. Right well do the
movers in this matter know that to surrender the
Land Distribution is the certain way to dCfedt
Protective Tariff for while it drives Msngum,
Graham, Morehead, &c. 10 vote Nay. it viii not
bring Silas Wright, Perry Smith and other Loco
to say Yea But the meatiRs was held and
Messrs. David Buel, Martin |. Townsend and Da-
vld L. Seymour (Losos) addressed j; in Jealous
advocacy of Protection, and in denuncaton Of the
Wings in Congress for rot surrendcrsg every thing
else 10 secure thi. object of newborn Loco-Foco
desire.
few Wings mixed in, Just to see wha, the
contriyers were about; and tested their sincerity
by proposing the following resolution
" ResoIred, That we will not support a csndi-
date for election TO Congress or the State Leg.la-
ture who Is net pledged for Tariff to protect
american Labor
This was resisted and rotcd dorm ty the mas
ter-sPirit', on the inPudenty false pretsxt tha,
crery body Is ~ faro, of Profec,ir. TariE
and therefore any such resolve is unnecessary -
This Pretence was set up by men who kaor that
the Globe. Erenia- Post, Nsp Era and all tie
lively oracles of their party constantly wage
deadly war upon the system of Protection in All
its shapes and notifications. Whom. then. can j,
deceive
The real frieads OF Protection in Troy " i'll hold
a meeting in the course Of the week, when the
true voice Of the City will be spoken. We doubt
not that it will go to sustain the Tara bill as i,
passed the House.