New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-28
EEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY %.
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{ more clearly developer sN1sV VI IN'Ne'
eA.Il.pses the reasonable and earnest attention Oh
nh vbo do lot mesnly skulk from the discharge i
,,. crave responsibilities fairly devolved upon
.v.rv citizen Of this community bat especially Of
avery ose who has been led, IN the discharge Of
the duties ofrepublican Citizenship, 10 identity nm
; ali ia feeling and action with the Wing Party
These two Elections have been signsllzed by the
pov.l spectacle ola body Of Wings by proiession-
ANAL indeed in nambers, bat strong in the means
Of influencing distsn, public sentiment and that Of
ths more .irnd portion ofthe wealthy At bome-set
ct,ns themselves deliberately at work to defeat the
tl.sdiog Wing candidates on a preteDce Of superior
devotion 70 the cardinal principles Of the wing
prty-psrly By open hostility, bat more generally
: by underb and and steslthy msneOvers-oy hiing
the columns Of their jo1rnsls with oaek-handed
slabs and deadly inuendoes against regularly pre-
sentsd candidates whom they protested 70 support
and BY secret combinations 70 defeat those cand
dates at the polls These novel demonstrations
were not in the first instance successtul-psrty be
causs the combinations in their behalf were not
then Sufficiently extensive and complete partly
because they were overbslanced by long-brewing
and bitter feud in the ranks Of COR adverssnes-but
a. the more recent Judicial Election the attempt
was renewed under more favorable auspices and
with decided success The higher Judiciary OF
our State has thus been handed over almost
entire 10 the party which bad 50 long monoPozed
il under different system Freedom u Je"e't
/ by WING efforts, and that Of Wing t9~ysys more
over ia placed on the Bench ofthe Court Of Appeals
instead Of FRrDERIc WHITTLEsEY, and Greene
G. Bronson a notorious enemy Of the New Consti-
tu,ion. by whose fat the Lawyer Monopoly Is per.
petnsted in our State in defiance ofthe plain intent
Of the Constitutional Convention, is also Justice
Of the Court Of Appeals instead Of ANERosE /.
JoRpAS. Among those most active in producing
this result are men who were Delegates TO our last
State Convention and there aided to put Messrs.
whit,lesey and Jordan in nomination, with some
who were candidates for nominations at the hands
Of that body Their subsequent dispositions Tor
eectingih the defes;of the candidates thus presente
were early std skilliully made, and their success
has been complete. No, that great many Wing
votes were actually carried over 70 the candidates
Of our opponents-thst was at once impossible ana
unnecessary Every purpose was an "ered "heh
by uns9aring denuncisti0n Of our leading camel
date, a. allied with or subservient 70 Piotters OF
anarchy robbery and murder. n portion OF the
Wings had been thrown into perp'exity and doubt
with regard to this novel Election-had been in
duced 70 hesitate to grow cold and finally 70 con
oIude not to vote at all or At farthe't TO be content
with merely voting Henceiorxard the result was
inevitable
And what can impartial, intelligent men think
of this pretoxt or the defeat Of the Wing party by
protesting Whigs1 Look back at It's history
When FOR The first time in September last that por
ton Of our citizens who feel aggrieved by the Land
TeDures perpetuated On the great Manorial Estates
lying in some of the Eastern Counties Of our State
were distnctively represented in Wing State
Convention their Delegates presented the name
OF an able. upright, deserving Wing Statesman,
asking his nomination for Governor. Their urgent
request was not acceded TO- and another was select
ed The Anti Renters, so called, aiterward concur
red in supporting the Wing candidate for Governor,
though he VIGOROUSLY was by no means their choice.
he did not accept their nomination be was not
even asked to do so; but they voted for him. and
be was chosen, as was the Lieutenant Governor Of
the adverse party, who also received their support
s-sss-ss-an ever imagined that 1t Gov Gaytilgr j.
any less Loco, i oco on that account no man has
had reason to suppose Gov. Young any less deci
dedly Wing in a. than he was in ~. No man
dad suppose for one moment that Frederic Whit
tlesey and Ambrose L. Jordan were any less deci-
ded and unequivocal Wings in a. than they had
been through lives Of answering devotion to the
cause. No man had suspected that they had solicit
ed the Anti Rent nomiaation any other indeed,
IL was notorious that at first Mr.. Jordan had de-
clined being a candidate at ALL and had only been
IL n
tons Of prominent Wings that his name could not
be spared from the ticket His elevation to the
Bench would have involved heavy pecunary sst
rihces on his part His nomination had been con.
coded not to the Third District but to the Delegs
ton from this City who, on the peremptory declen
ton Of MIR Lord, presented Mr.. Jordsns name. and
no other In full view Of all these facts, men who
knew him TO be one OF the sblest lawyers aud firm.
est Wings in the State-who knew that he had re.
lactsntly accepted the Whig nomination, and had
neither sought this nor any other-conspred 10 de-
feat MIN and elect less competent Looo-Foco, in
the name Of Wing principles and in affected dread
that the fountains OF Justice would be polluted by
the success OF Mr. Jordan
OF course, ii was not possible, 1t never could
have been expected that this game OF treachery
IN local as well a general diseomhtures. The plot
tiers # they did desire, must 81 least lar as
they are men OF decent intelligence, have Gcquies
ced in THIS And thus, while Counties like West
chester. Orange Onondaga and Seneca chose
majority of Wing Judicial Omcers, our City Just
before signaly redeemed from LOCO Fooo misrule In
our Charter Election. thrown back sgain IN the
Judicial on every candidate by an overwhelming
majority Oneida, last Falin good part redeemedby
reason OF the defeat OF the little anto who assumed
10 threaten In her name Ia regard TO the nomination
of Governor, and who avenged their ilIsaccess
in the County Nominations by defeating the nomi
nses at the Polls driven back by overt treach-
cry in the Judicial contest TO the position which
she had for nineteen years most uunataral,y occu-
pied mSinstsy OF Loco Focoism the Wing
County Judge was defeated by kindred influences
IN that time honored stronghold OF sound principles
Monroe Coanty and even Srie, Tor years Gibral,
tar Of our cause, where LocoFo ticket hsi not
before succeeded in the memory OF man, went the
whole hog IN the recent Election. to the shameful
defeat OF Wings known and beloved throughout