New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-23
The People Dis@raced:

Who after this can pretend TO believe the
shameful calumny
The People Disgraced:
1t is a standing assertion of the Sage Of Lin
denwald and his adhercnts that the People of the
United States were deeply disgraced by the con-
duct and result of the last Presidential Election,
and that Mr. Van Burens reelection (hc broadly
implies and they plainly declare can alone wash
out the stain. On this ground, they call upon
the People to pronounce their own sentence by
rejecting Mr.. Van Buren,.
Now is it not strange, if this assertion is well
founded, that nobody but the hoggcd.out sufferers
in that contest ever discovered TIE fact! Is it
not surprising that the Peoples disgrace has been
discovered by none but those whom they dis.
graccd Admit that the majority who produced
this result could not see its niquty, were there
no impartial spectators Here were Foreign
tourists and observers of all classes-Republican,
Tory, Radical, Conservative-traversing the
Country throughout the great contest Of 1910,
and taking note of all they saw; and has any
one of them ever spoken disparagingly Of the
Election of 1910? Not to our knowledge. On
the contrary, those who have spoken were struck
with the perfect order and good feeling man.
tanned through such pervading excitement, the
general purity of the Election, the perfect oppor.
tunity afforded every legal voter to deposit his
ballot and the absence Of all unmany exultaton
on the part of the victors, after their overwhelm-
T. Ill tt,ot, ~ rs
violence was committed by the Wings. With
pleasure, then, do we see our opponents preparing
to reopen the canvass of 1910 by heapng con-
tumely on the heads OF the People for their con-
duct in that struggle. Come on!
HoUsAroNIc MISUNDERSTANDING recent visit
to Connecticut, we were gratiticd to learn that
there begin to be hopes for this long depressed and
struggling enterprise. The receipts for the past
winter have greatly exceeded those of the pre-
ceding, Though the earl y opening of the hudson
will probably curta those of the Spring quarter,)
the travel to Albany by this route has increased,
and the local transportation extends daily When
the Harlem is extended to interscct with this Jas
we trust it will be speedily the route to Albany up
the romantic valley of the Housatonlc and through
the picturesque mountains at It's head can be
made popular one for summer tourists and
leisuyely travellers. We hardly know where
bright June day could be spent more agreeaby'
We hope yet to see this prosperous, dividend
paying Road though the day is somewhat dis
tant. Its friends have struggled nobly to con-
struct it and pay off its most pressing debt (iou-
satonic Bank notes. and though many of them
have been bankrupted by its misfortunes, they
have the consolation that they have achieved
public good at the expense of their private for
tunes.
BR1DGEpoRr is much embarrassed by the part
she has taken in building this Road. Many OF
her citizens invested in it heavily, and the outlay
is virtually, at least for the present, dead los;
and now the town is required to pay the interest
and principal on debt Of Sl50,0OO contracted
for loan to this Road. This is heavy debt Tor
a town of some 5000 people, and great many
of them are trying hard to repudlate it, denying
the right of the majority, even under the express
authority of the Legislature, to contract any such
debt in behalf of the town. This denial is ho'
without some grounds Of abstract plauslbIllty Du'
we regard it as practically and morally unsouho
The debt was authorized by large majority IL
obedience to a State law-it was contracted III
good faith for the benefit of the town, and LII sio
of an enterprise which has benefited the lo"n
though at a cost which was not anticipated -
we were citizen of Bridgeport, we should ls'4
morally bound to advocate payment to the 1857
farthing and we would urge this methsd; C0n'
pute the entire debt assess it fairly and equsn'
on all the Real Estate in the town, ana ano"
each owner to pay off his share at once or d. ~
convenience before the debt becomes due. in.'
is nothing for such case like taking Inc oun|
the horns > and we are sure the debt "ouio D.a.
less depressngly from the moment this resoiu10-
was taken, and few years economy, ndusaJ
and good management would bring brogsp''
out of debt and into prosperity again n,
We trust these unprompted observations w."
offend no party. We feel the force OF soni'
the arguments used by the antipay party 'n0u5 =
we cannot begin to concur in their COURSE ~
seems to us too much like pleading the Dapy
in bar of lust debt. 1t is certainly hard 10 'll.
to pay, but harder still for the lenders 70 i0's ,sst
and the money that is expended in tesng gu
lawyers pro and con, is only making 'n' .Le
ter worse. We have been reminded 70 ~
these remarks (Which we had intended !"
some days since, but were prevented oy =, NO ~.
pressing duties) by meeting friend o. W w.b
pay party, who is down here to intefes' w. can
ster in their case. We trust that no talents W