New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-03

To hI Editor Of The Tribune:
| notice in your paper to-day a series Of resotu-
tiOn, adopted at meeting of seamen held last evening
At the Shakespeare Hotel The preamble to these reso'
lions states that application is now before the Legs
ature the objec, of which is to appropriate portion OF
the funds raised by tax seamen 10 The uss Of the Mdv'
ines Family Industrial Society"
Permit me to say that this statement is Sholiy ond
aerly untrue and surprised that men whose char
acter for integrity and veracty has hitherto been consid
cred unmpeschabe should sanction and sustain resou
tons founded what y knOp TO be gro" aud PdtpG6H
faI.ekood The fact is the NJ f. l. Society, so far from
having applied for this fund for their orn nss have not
asked for the handling of single dollar OF II Tor any
purpose. They have simply peIitioned the Legislature
TO empower the Trustees OF the sesmens FUND ana
Retreat to use this surplus fund for the erection OF
home for the aged and destitute female relatives Of
those VINO have paid the tax from which this fund has
accumulated" And this well known to those who
prepared and presented these resolutions and was
peatedly reiterated to them during the meeting.
The second resolution states that the application OF
the said Industrial Society far pretends to come
from ta1-payias searen is decepsire aud untrue" To
this would simply reply, that'in the course OF few
weeks previous to the of The petition OF the
NJ F. / society and without any extraordinary EFFORT
the signatures of hundred tar paying ssdmeH
voluntarily and heartily appended TO the document
and that single sailor who was asked refused 10
sign IT, would ask, 10 which side does the charge oil
dece pton and falsehood beongl
Ia the third resolution which declares that the state
has power impose partial and exclusive taxes upon
seamen for he purpose Of making donations 10 Chart
able sOceiss mat in justice and equity the sailor
who has paid his hospital tax has vested right IN the
fund thereby collected the ~ r l. Society most iny
concur Notwithstanding the assertion made by one OF tns
speakers the meeting last evening that ne Soctey asks
for yeary appropriation 0O0 70 ber1,sedby tdrs he
/ xuov fact hR
nesty desire this class OF men to be reduced
to the actual OF the hospital for whose support 1t
imposed aHiess The surplus can be dPopT'ded inrte
Lnv 10 The beneft his family and they ask that the fund
ALREADY accumulated may be thus appropriated for the be-
neft VINO have the same interest In the sailor
right 10 this fund the family Of the lsndsman has In
| property accumulated by him
| The NJ F. society have not seen nj 10 reply 10 the
sarcastic and sanderous articles which daily appear IN
the columns OF the Journal OF Commerce and Courer@
Enquirer. While they have deeply regretted tnst tne
Edors of those papers should lend their columns 10
aid in crushing an effort founded In justice humanity
and the purest benevolence they have, with dignity
| which does them honor. quietly yet perseveringy
pressed forward the goal set before them trusting In
Him VINO STYLES him the ctdops God and Judge and
who has declared He r make The vraih Of man 10
praise him aud restrain The remainder thereof They be-
eve that truth il mighty and must prevail and that
tho authors OF these ceumnes, while they are puung
forth every eOrtthst human ingenuity can devise eav
ing no stone unturned and wire unstrupg to defeat
ths object in question by the spirit they manifest
not only obtaining for themselves very unenviaole rep
utaton but are actually facilitating the benevolent de-
| sign Of the Society they 90 bitterly oppose.
And 10 10 remarkable circumstance and one TO wncn
wish call the attention OF your readers nndng
that spite OF their efforts the bill for the sp
preparation would probably pass, the men having
charge of the funds Of the Retreat last and desperate
resort have (or profess have paid over all the sur
plus on hand 70 the Marine HO,DtaL 10 meet loan
ceived many years since and phh has nsr been called
for and hieh 10 cell known tey haze nu his ests
designed pay One would hardly expect to see mani
nesea by Prince of the Internal resions spirit
IN re hostile the OF benevolence and the prin-
cples Of Justice The circumstance speaks for itself
out the movement is one At which the friends OF the 30
cety greatly rejoice. JUSTICE AND TRUTH.
! Nec- York April -, le47