New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-28
NETWORK CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
EIGHTH WEEk-FORTY.FIFTH DAY.

EIGHTH WEEh-FORTY-FIfI 4 DAi
The Value OF State Conveltions-End Of Week
Sth-Single Assembly Districts carried. 10 TO
-Supervisots 10 divide large C0untiss-SpollS-
men-WardS 10 be Diyitet-Wyonns-Sa
rieS for LegislatorS-Pary Nominations incom-
patble with Freedom Of Election.
ALBANY. SATURDAY., Iuy 18th lSi6.
To IL Editor Of TIE TTi5leTc
SIR: The Convention agreed tins morning 70
I have no Saturday afternoon sittinss-a good idea
ii they work hard the rest Of the week. Boys and
teachers have been allowed a half holiday on the
last hall OF the last day OF the week : schools and
colleges Tor the last thousand !, ears.
! How important are Institutions Send one son
TO a college rel regulated and where Youth is pro
/ perv instructed. Send another TO a badly formed
inefficient school How different the effects viii be
how different the men Try badly built ship
compare it as safety in storm or speed OF sail
ing with the speed and safety of one well construct
/ ed The Convention is composed OF the builders
OF the ship Of State-the materials are powers,
! rights. privileges duties, obhgations-and il they
build eoodly craft and the People shall choose the
night sort of pilots and crews 10 man and steer her
/ they NAV put 10 sea in safety fearless OF squalls
and prepared for tempests-6ut il they make clun'-
sy work or use rotten timber the perls OF the past
will assuredly be theirs and like thoushtess pas
seneers who suffer shipwreck or founder at sea
through the carelessness OF pilots or the unhtness
of ships. or both those who sent them here will
suffer with them-the innocent with che guilty
Look at Mexico. compare her wretched condi-
ron with that OF New.England In the former
( life and property are insecure. the millions are
STEPPED in ignorance. and large landed es-
tate is but nm evidence OF poverty IN many cases
in the latter education is universal wealth well
distributed, prupery safe, and labor more and more
! protected and encouraged. Whence IS the differ
! ence7 In the INSTITUTIONS Had it been possible
10 institute system in Mexico like those OF New
England similar effects. in that delightful country
| must have been the result but the habits the man
ners. the will of the people forbade 1t Let US then
look earnestly at every movement OF Convention.
upon the iudcious action of which so much OF the
welfare or wretchedness OF untold millions may, IN
various degrees essentially depend. Let SET
| Gorcrnme1t have fair trial. Let the mental ener
gv of the masses be properly directed-et Couven'
lions lend their powerful uld-et the mighty expe-
riment 60 on-in its success lies the last hope OF
! human nature Shall the institutions and the peo
ple whose career thus far has been the subject OF
many promises hopes and fears among the children
of less favored cmes. pass onward toward pertec
tion through the accumulating skill. knowledge,
learning wisdom of successive ages-or IS the his
tory of the past but the mirror OF the future Shall
vile selGshness prevail and philanthropy mourn
over human raty in the dissolution OF Its tondest
| dream p
The eighth week of the labors ofthe Peoples
Delegates has closed and it bids fairer for success
lul issue than those which have gone before II.
/ Essential changes tending TO improve and render
more perfect the representative system nave oeeh
adopted by majoritics likely 70 prove decisive and
| seemingly with sincerity and slngeness OF heart'
| seeking the common good OF all. In the language
| og end oil IN
| that
There Is a People mighty in it's youth
A land beyond the oceans OF the West
Where. though with rudest rites, freedom ana truth
Are worshiped
The first vote this morning in Committee on the
! report of Committee No. l. whether SO much
of the eth section provides that the l2s Members
I OF Assembly shall each be chosen by single DIS
trict separately and not IN bodies OF 3, D. and 10
| by general ticket, should be amended
SINGLE DISTRICTS were carried ten to one
The next vote was on proposition by Mr. KEN
srDY, for excepting NewGork City from the Single
District system, as 1t is excepted from the lenper
ance law. Lost.
Mr. Cooks motion to District all counties entitled
10 more than one Member with the greatest possible
equality as to population and contiguous territory
by means OF the Board of County Supervisors
was farther considered and met with much favor.
| Mr. RUSSELL said that his county st. Lnwrencel
IS large and that the % Supervisors chosen b. ITS
| - towns would divide 1t better than any three
men sent 10 Albany
Mr. PERKINS wanted the Convention to make the
first division, and leave II to the Supervisors To
make future divisions one every ten years.
Mr. MILLER waited the division 10 be made
by Boards OF Supervisors chosen by the people,
with the knowledge that they were to perform tins
work-this would be infusng. rs far as IN the Con
venton lay rs much as possible oil the public sent
! ment into the measure.
Mr. SHAVER said that the Supervisors were not
chosen because OF their efficiency as politicians.
but 10 do the County business-that they We're per
fectly ft 10 do this work soon As the Consttu
ron should be adoptsd-whlc II n new election
took place including this political work as & part
other duties II would Introduce politics TOO much
! among them Mr. Forsyth took similar view
/ Mr. Rhoades wished give the people the oppor-
tunity 10 elect their agents with special reference
10 this work Had gentlemen become AFRAID OF
trusting the people IL the election OF their agents
/ Mr. SwAcKHAMER did not doubt the capacity OF
the people 10 choose lit agents but, as the rotten
borough system exists III Kings, as 1t doubtless
| does in some other Counties, he wished Board OF
/ Supervisors elected next Spring with reference to
/ this as well as other duties
/ Mr. JONES thought that no body otmen to be elect
/ ed could be more capable than the ColT entlon 10
divide the Counties That work SHOULD be done by
/ the Convention and not by the Legislature or Su-
| perisors. The Convention had been elected with
express reference 10 the discharge OF this duty,
/ aud he moved that they make Division.
(
party tactics and how TO i've the spoils Of Office,
and all those who wished TO combine the efforts of
this class OF oceseekers and spolls divders IN or
/ der that they might center ell power OF Pohtcal
kind III this city. the INJURY and cscredit OF the
! State would naturally oppose a reference to the
Board OF Supervisors but one great object he had
in view was 10 break up this banetul central infu
/ ence Were the matter referred to the Leglsia
! lure il would bring immense LOBBY 10 Albany
! and the Delegates had NOT TO Albany with
details OF plans and fully prepared 10 divide the
/ Counties
NJ WasvIs We are mol 10 divide County lines
! An tbat Is to be done, therefore, IS TO divide the
members among the Counties, according to the pres
emf apportioument-
Mr. bergen objected to IFS being done 0y the
Boards OF Supervisors, because they dlt not talriy
represent the people In Kings, SIX Supervisors
who represent about 1900, had about as much In
/ huence as other SIX who represent $1,000
Mr. ANGEL was OF opinion that The civlsion should
-ta next town meetings. Nl.