The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-12-31
Pilots and Proscription.

awer for their wrong doing.
Pilots and Prescription.
The 9th article of the constitution oil the Board
of Pilot Commissioners" is complete embod-
ment of abomnation, and requires but to be read to
be denounced. In principle proscrptlye, 1t has been
executed in the spirit OF fanatic persecution.
BY this article, st Is recommended that no vessel
receive aperson as pilot excepting on his producnga
certificate signed by the above Board, or those is
sued under the authority of the State of New Jer-
sey." To appreciate fully the object and aim OF tine
preceding article, the act OF me Legislature OF
The act repeating all laws and parts OF laws rela-
tive TO the regulation of pilots and plloage pro-
vdes rhat all persons holding licenses on the 10th
day OF March, 1885, shall continue TO be pilots and
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Ga the 10th day Of March last eighty three pilots
held licenses by authority OF the State OF New York,
which, by the provlso Of the act, were specially
served. AT those State licensed pilots, the 6iil nr
tlce Of the pseudo constitution aims the blow. In
hattering condescenslon, II authorizes the employ
ment ot pilots holding licenses under the authority
OF sovereign sister State, whilst It recomme nds
that no vessel receive person pilot who holds
the commission of the State of New York; yet this
paradox is proclaimed by corporate authorities, who
from the grace OF the State OF New York derive
their own corporate existence.
1t will be said that the New York pilots need not
OF necessity be embraced within the proscriptve
bans, az the Board OF Commissioners prepared
to receive them in the fold on examination and APP
prova-a proposition undlgnlhed as Indecent
Have they not earned their commissions from aIs
premiership and examination! Is not the commits
sion OF the State peipetuited by law, amidst the
wreck and downfall OF the sysem-authorlty supe-
rior any that could be derived from seconstitu;
ed sources, who having no power OF themselves,
could confer rights on others Are not the COM
missions granted and reserved by the State OF New
York of equal value, at least for the purposes of ma
vgatlng New York vessels on New York waters, to
those derived rom the authority Of New Jersey :
Not so. The constitution of the Board OF Pilot
Commissioners does not recognise the commits ons
of the State of New York whilst welcome en-
brace is offered to the license of New Jersey--and
this illicit love undlsgulsedly INDUCED IN under
the sanction of losing titles.
II 1t be admitted that the Chamber OF Commerce
and Board OF Underwriters have the right to make
and regulate pilots, an lncdento their corporate
pursuits who can claim for them the license TO pro-
scribe those whose rights guaranteed Wthou,
reflection, II will be said the motive ustlfles the
end; it is their only means to coeree The licensed
pilots of New York tn submit themselves 10 their
self-consttuted masters. Is that principle quite con-
sonaat with democratic notions OF eqna rights +
They had commissions to act ms pilots from superior
authority; and 10 il becoming, that because they will
not surrender that authority and become the bonds
to this or that MASTER they are to be proscrlb-
ed that through starvation OF wives and chill
dren, submission IS at all events to be secureol
IL 1t not, indeed, audacous and unprecedented that
the tree will OF any man Is to be controlled from
hunger and want, because they prefer the license OF
the State under whose laws and protection they live,
to the permission of State corporations There IL
danger in this principle OF control and interference
there must be harmonious movement IN every class
Of society, and each should be confined TO lis APP
propriatc sphere.
Emboldened by success, who can arrest the pro-
gress OF aggression, tell where the next blow will
fall 2 Wealth, combined with intelligence and
ambition, is ever formidable engine. Before this
task is accomplished, however, it will appear that
these corporations have out Heroded Herod in their
rapid strides to power-so rapid, indeed, that In
oversteppng the threshold of discretion, they have
rendered themselves harmless In the gorgeous fol-
lies which remain to DE exposed.
To high minded merchants, the recommendation
of the 9th article Of the Constitution ndgnlty
that should be resented by themselves-a wrong to
the pilots OF New York, soon TO be redresscd In
Congress- and offence 10 the State, which viii be
remembered when, peradventure, their own charters
may hereafter be submitted to the action OF the
Legislature for renewal or otherwise
IL may not be foreign to this subject to express
surprise that members OF corporate institutions,
protesting to represent the enlightened portions OF
the community, should venture to trifie with this
delicate subject. The prejudice against corpora
tons swclI known and daily increasing; increasing
without Iust appreciation OF their usefulness but
Justly TO increase when invited by abuse OF corpo-
rate powers or usurpatlon OF those not conferred
II IN season those who are obnoxious to the pre-
Gent reproach, do not recede from high handed and
Unauthorized measures. at their doors will lie con-
sequences which hereafter may flow from msdirect-
ed prejudice IN the subversion OF fystems useful
when under the law, but dangerous when the law is
put under them. ladscreton may lay the founda.
ton OF vlndlctive justice. PUBLIcoLA
LATER FROM CeEPUs CHRsTI.-ScKNEss ANT
SUFFERING IN THE ARMY.--By the schooner Ro
seo, Captain Shipman arrived yesterday, from CoIpu
Christi dates from that place up to the 18th inst
The army stationed thero suffering much from ths
extreme cold weather aud the want OF good quarters
and many Of the troops were reported sick, large
number Of Mexican traders In at Corpus Christi
yettrade reported dull Mr.. Hart. the actor. wa
there endeavorng 10 make arrangements for the reguis
introduo,ion OF tho - o. pieavuns Dec. 81.