New-York daily tribune., 1843-04-28
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WHOLE NO. 63s.
naired IFS confidence IN the ability and fidelity OF
those Public Officers. who expended over THREE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in the enlargement OF tour
teen miles OF canal
The People, notwithstanding the unaralilng ei-
forts OF that select committee. are not ieit IN tne
dark. The Senator whose services were dispensed
with upon the committee, did not shrink from his
duty. The Document submitted 10 the Senate
containing the results OF HE own sitting nreStlga-
tons. exhibited facts of the most startling charac-
ter. These facts. drawn from the public archives,
We're of unquestionabc authority. Prominent
among these deveIopements stands the fact that
Gov. BoucK selected for his favored contractors,
upon the sections of Enlarged Canal referred to,
men whom WILLIAM L. MARCY, when Comptrol-
Ter. reported TO the Legislature as corrupt and dis
honest: that these avorites received contracts at
prices much higher than those for which gcspon-
sibe and exderienced men offered to do the work
that these tarories gave rrevocable powers OF al
toney to canal officer who received the money
due on contracts and that the mansions of these
favorites were embeshcd with ornamental ston.
walls erected at the expense of the State
We are only enabled here to glance at the eX
traordinary expenditures of money upon the Erie
Enlargement between Albany and Cohocs Falls.
The question, however, is one OF deep and absorb
ing interest. and the developments which have
been made claim the ScrutlnzIng attention OF
every citizen.
At the close of the session, Gov BoUcH aston
ished friends and foes alike by the nomination of
David Hamilton as Canal Appraiser. 1t is suitl-
cient, as we'll for condemnation Of the Executive
as for the vindicaton of those who preferred
charges of peculation and fraud against those
who had charge of these sections OF the Enlarge
ment, to say that the Senate did not confirm the
nomination of Mr.. Hamilton.
We will not trespass on your patience by Il re-
view at length of the minor features of the Scs-
sion Its feuds and trays among brethren in prin-
cipe are on record before you. Its shameless and
wholly gratutous avowal of Repudiating doctrines
bv the chief officer of Statc-doctrnes which, af-
ter much parade and demonstration, stand ,mre-
bukcd by the majority to tins day-cannot have
escaped your notice. Its liberal promises of gen
eral Rctrenchment and Reform and their non
fultilment, You were doubtless prepared Tor. Its
promises Of a short session, so sgnally dlsappolnt
ed in the end its failure to act on great Qucs
ton of criminal jurisprudence, fully presented tor
its decision. with its defeat by delay or otherwise
of three fourts of the important bills reported by
its committees its general fertility of promises
and barrenness of pcriormance-with these, the
journals and your own observation have already
made you acquainted. For ourselves. with a
proud conviction that we have here neither OBJ
sructed the business of legislation, perverted II 10
party ends, nor consented to measures mconSst
with the interests the liberties the we-belng of
our constituents, we iearlcssly solicit upon our
conduct the impartial judgement OF the People OF
New York.
IT, feow-citizens, you should discover in the
language of this Address the subdued tones Of
complaint and remonstrancc against wrong rather
than the animatmg words OF gladness ana T-
,Imph, Won will understand that II IS dictated ra-
ther by consciousness of the immediate Present
than contemplation of the Past or the Future.
To the four years in which the Wing party and
policy were recently predominant in New York,
we point you with heartfelt pride as a period IN
which the great interests of our State were scdu-
lously cherished and vigorously promoted, the
Liberties and rights of her people lntiexlby MAN.
tanned both at home and abroad, and the protec-
ton and safety of the humblcst citizen made the
object Of the States unsleeplng care. The Wing
ascendancy in orr National Councils, though
early shattered by providentia calamity and
almost crushed by appalling treachery, and thue
robbed of lis beneficial results by beng shorn o
nearly all It's powers has still been most propltous
to the national welfare, by its reforms OF fragrant
abuses of patronage, It's retrenchment of prodga
expenditure, and its establishment Of Protective
Tariff, from which the Currency and industrial
energies of the country are already beginning to
experience the most bcnignant effects. And the
blessings which calamity and trcachery have re-
strictcd or defeated in the Past shall be amply
realized in the approaching Future. Firmly uni
ted, with regard to principles, measures and men
known to the country as the nfalterng advo-
Gates Of the Protection of American Industry,
the creation of a sound and uniform National
Currency, the rect of the States from onerOus
burhens and their security from spoliatlon through
the Distribution of the Public Land Proceeds, and
the sautary limitation of Executive patronage and
power the Wing Party of the Union hopefully
awaits the dav when its unwearled and unbroken
masses shall rally to the contest OF lSIl, bearing
proudly on their banner the name OF the great
Orator and Statesman o! our country ana agc--a
name which not even the most lnluraed male
Violence. the most reckless calumny, dare couple
with treacherv or dissimulation-"ith incaPacty'
WRONG or dshonor. Under the banner oi thti
Great Statesman will the victors OF lolo reVlndi
cate themselves by new triumphs from the iou
SANDERS and bitter taunts OF their enemies and
the benignant results 50 fondy and Justly antic',
pated from the Presidency of Gen. HARRIsoN, but
blighted by his death, shall be more than realized
nnder the ascendancy Of the profound ability, the
ripe experience, the transcendent civic genius of
HENRY CLAY.
We are your ieow-citizens.
[Sigued by the Wing Members
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