New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-19
Our City Officers.

Our
We have not thought proper to reply to the
coarse abuse hcaped upon the late Wing Officers
OF this City BY TIE P!e5eicn and other stiPcndi-
aries OF the new Common Council. Let them
take Their time Ii the new Corporation shall
govern the CITY better than those they have su
y,erSeded, we shall rejoice att and give them due
credit. We owe nothing tc the Wing Admins
tration they were willing to confer on Us the
patronage obtained from their successors by The
Plebeian, but We respectfully declined. Their
Administration was not fautless, but they effect
ed more substantial, beneficial Reforms than any
preceding Council for many years. They might.
we think have done better IN the matter OF the
Street Contract, but what they did was great
deal better than nothing. Their faults mainly
lav. not in doing, but in leaving undone. They
ought to have established comprehensive Sys
ten Of Industry for the dependent Poor, both for
the sake of the Poor themselves and of the Tax
PAYERS Of our sorsiy tax-ridden City. They
ought 10 have done all IN Their power toward a
Reform OF our wretched Police system. They
failed Of all this and are bcaten-beatcn, ne are
confident. BIZ foul voting in good part; but beaten
as they would not have been if they had acted
with energy and entire devotion to the public
good.
But great good has resulted to the City from
the last year Of Wing Administering greater
Freedom Of Markets, Reuenchment of Salaries,
and great improvements in the manner Of collect
ing the Revenues and keeping the accounts of
the City From the system Of accountability
established by the Wings, ii IS rendered next to
impossible that such detalcations as those OF
Lloyd, Ahen, Stevenson, Hart, &c. &c, shall
again occur, evcn with the Loco Focos IN power.
Perhaps this Is the reason why The PIebeian.
which. as Is charged by ITS own partisans, was
long sustained by the money iiIched BY Lloyd \
Co from the City, is now SO bitter in Its abuse
of the late Wing Councils.
Bu, the Loco Focos are in power; and If they
viii do what the Wing lef, nndone and not uad0
what they have well done VIC shall be agrecably
disappointed. and make due acknowledgements.
We have several communications, beratlng them
for turning ont upright and capable officers and
filing Their places with those who are less so :;
but these we lay under the table. The Wings
swcp, cloan-the Loco-Focos have done like
wise-wc tolerate no whimpering about it. We
think the City has suffered loss in parting with
Dir. Griscom as City Inspector, tlczcl,iah WI
Hams as Agent of the Aims House, DR.. \. s..
Whiting as Physician to do, Joseph Keen as
Keeper of the Pcnitenliary, and many others of
the late Wing Officers. We do not know the
men chosen in their places and shall draw no
comparisons. We have very clear conviction
that the internal system OF turning out all 70
htical opponents ndscrminatcly on change OF
parties in the ascendant will yet destroy the LIB
critics as it has already dcbauched the Morals OF
the Country but we sec no prospect OF getting
rid of i, without concurrence of the virtuous
and intelligent of all parties, and that we despair
of efcc,ing. Until ii is done, we shall not de
nouncc our opponents for turning ever 50 good a
Wing out OF office wherever they have the power
they being responsible for the integrity and tit
ness OF Their successors.