New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-28
The Delhi Communication.

The Albany AHdS-whlch Is Inc specidi VI gan Vi
Gov Wright; az proved by his selection OF 1t as the
channel Of his communications to the public-copies
onr article of Tuesday morning on Van Steenburgh
and o Conner, and beside accusing US of applying
brutal epthets to the Governor, when we had ap-
nlied no epitbets a; all TO him, but only intimated
onr fear that he had been led into fearful mistake
says:
The official papers committing the penalty Of the
fences with the therefor were despatched from
this city on Saturday last: Those things The Tribune
did not take the trouble 10 learn
BY what trouble could we have learned in this
City on Monday. when our Editorial matter for
Tuesday must Of course be written, that Gov
Wright had committed the punishment On Saturday
The Anti Renter of Saturday stated that 1t had
made inquiry at the Executive Chamber after noon
of that day. and bad been answered that no decision
had been made. The Albany Argus of Monday
contained no announcement OF the commutaton, and
of course was kept in ignorance OF IT. Even the
Journal OF Monday erening (which reached this
CITY after our structures published was utter
" silent Oh the inject. How, then, were we TO
learn in New-York on Monday that the Governor
had done on Saturday what was not publicly known
in Albany up to the evening OF Monday, what the
Argus did not know that morning and what we
heard was denied at the Governors Office after noon
OF Saturday Atlas explain We certainly did
not know it, though we have watchiul and well
informed correspondent in Albany, who kept his
eyes and open to any information on this sub
ject, aud we greatly feared that the Governor had
not done and would not do what we were happy
next day to learn he had done.
The Atlas continues:
1.-THE Tribune and its associates the advocates Of
mercy as they call themselves contend that the killing Of
Sheriff jnsfabL. because he acts under authority
in which anonymous attorney pretends to pick flaw
and that the other hand the courts and the megs-
trates knowing the falsehood Of that assumption
gard the homicide murder This Is the end OF the
gument of The Tribune and its assocates-that assass
nation for an unconscious respass Is usGote and that
the judicial punishment of death for murder, is
just butchery'"
Iii very deeply TO be regretted, for the ends of
truth and public justice that it is not deemed cour
teous 10 answer such assertions the above in terms
of summary positivencss like these" Sir, you are
a liar and scoundrel" For what else is the man
who can at this day declare that The Tribune holds
the killing of Steele 10 be justfable, when we have
almost daily stated and reiterated in every conceiv
able form, that we hold no killing of human being,
except in defence of mminenty threatened life to be
Unsuitable, and that we considered the Indians NJ
Andes most criminal and deserving of punishment?
Even George Clinton Jr. in his article Of the 18th
inst (which we wish the Atlas would attempt to re-
flute, since it considers the game too small for Gov
ernor) explicitly said
1--WE are not nquiring what crimes OConnor and
Van Steenbargh had been guilty of, uhether they
ought be punished how much any farther than the
question is concerned nhe,her they haze been rightly in
dicsd Of We do OF
encourage the dea that disguise and them
seires any OCCASION time Of peace. and when the
laws, if rightly executed c6undantly able and sud
cieat to protect the rights Of all parties"
How can the Governors organ, in the face OF this
and hundred similar explicit statements. venture
to make the charges above quoted7 What can it
hope to gain by Them What ought III gain
but the indignant contempt of every lover OF justice
and honesty