New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-05

a. Ysuss's Message

,..<r.s, Though we dissent rum s"' " ~
80 .nd .hsll very frankly say wherein We con
-. 4, the main one Of the soundest and most
49,, docomenss that has been issued for years.
n. .xoo.itoa Of the state of our Public Works
~ .h.ir unprecedented productveness. of their am
~. veriHcssion Of the long ridiculed estimates and
snt;cipssons Of the Rugsles Report and OF the
1.,uitv and factious folly of the Stop and Tax po
cv Of 1912, 10 admirably copcise and lucid. WEI 90
not see how it can be resisted nor now any man OF
enl,ehtened forecast can doubt when he examines
.h i. J.cts and figures, that our State has been I'm
,overisbed and set back by the Stoppage OF her
Public Improvements. Yet in view oil the herce
oooositi on which Internal Improvement has ever
INIT especially Of late years, encountered In our
s,st.. ve cannot regret the adoption oil Art. VII.
81 oor New Constitution nor favor any movement to
"a .,sl il. That Article secures regular and con
.tsrt prosecution Of the unfinished Canals, at the
..me time that il secures the rapid extinction OF
the Pubc Debt. IL has taken the Canals out OF
the arena Of party contention and covered them
with the protecting canopy Of the Constitution IL
the People of our State were all ardent Canal men,
a. we are, we would gladly get nd OF the Constr
rational provision but in view Of all the facts, we
think the Canals will be completed quite as soon
uoder the Constitutional regulation as without It,
All the Governor says with respect 70 the pol
lev and necessity of River and Hsrbor Improve
roepts by the Federal Goverement is just right.
We oos, heartily commend it 10 general attention
A To Banks, we like what is said butiithere
be any intimaton conveyed that the Legislature
ough. to legslize any system OF Safety Fana or
other Banking on any other than the Free banking
basis OF security in the Controllers vaults Tor every
dollar of paper money issued, then we dissent from
that ntin alton.
What is said concerning Education is pretty
fair, bat might be better. 1t lacks recommends
tion that some system Of County Superintendent
of Common Schools be reestablished-that the ib-
er.y now accorded to the Districts to divert their
money from the steady increase OF their School
Libraries be- repealed-and that the rate bills be
utterly abolished and the support Of Common
Schools provided for by simple direct tax on pro
perty, 90 far as the School Fond IS Insoilcient
The rate bills are and ever will be, while and where
retained, an impediment to universal education by
rendering it burthensome to and unpopular win
the poorest class who can generally least apprecl
ate the worth of learning, and whose pride and ut
ter poverty will sometimes deprive their children
OF its inestimable blessings, We hope this point
will not long be overlooked Neither in this CITY
nor anv other where the rate bills have long been
abolished has anybody thought Of reviving them.
Al TO Colleges We have only 10 say that we APP
prsciatc their Importance, and will support any
pan calculated to throw open their advantages TO
all who choose to seek them and to authorizs each
College to draw from the proper fund its equals share
Of Public Money in proportion TO the number OF Its
pup;ls freely instructed but to all slap-dash ap-
preparations of so many thousand dollars to this
College and so many to that based upon no clearly
defined principle Of distribution, we stand opposed
eyermore We do not believe they will go much
longer.
The Governors suggestion of legislative enoour-
sgement to Manual Labor Schools, for giving In
struction In Agriculture and Mechanics as well as
Letter. has our warmest appreciation.
What he says of Markets, Exchanges Of Pro
ducts, the relations Of Agriculture and Manuiac
tores. &c il also sound and cogent. So of his argu
ent Ia favor the utility and benehcence OF Gen
erGl Corporation Law which shall not exact the I'M
limited liability Of stockholders. We cannot doubt
that such law will be promptly passed The alb
surdity of a limited liability (which the Constitution
strictly provides for stockholders in Banks, in con
nection with unnnited liability imposed on the
stockholders in manufacturing and all other corpo
rstions 10 very forcibly set forth by the Governor
We like well the suggestion that the term OF
punishment by imprisoning for first offences may
safely and humanely be shortened.
-Asto "the AntiRent troubles, so called, the
f-ffl. s,lto ost for
this portion n very earnest consideration. How
any man can dissent from is conclusions would be
unsccountable to US did we not know how tar men
may be misled by their preiudces and supposed
interests. We are very sure, however, that three
fourths Of the whole people, upon fair statement
Of the case, will concur in Gov. Youne's views
His suggestion that the STATE shall tigate and thus
establish or overthrow the Manorisl Titles seems
one which no fair mind dissent from II the
claimants really ocn these lands the State will do
them great service in judicslly establishing the
fact; II they don't own them, then they have ea
ioyed the benefits Of ownership quite long enough
We trust the Legislature will give them chance
to prove their titles at an early day
Gov Young's endorsement of the principle
Land Limitation. so far as relates to the Public
Lands ana his Recommendation mat tlosc LINUS
be hence forth sold to Actual Settlers only, will re
ioce many hearts, and will not be without inau.
snce at Washington Friends of Land Reform
the day of your triumph csnno, be distant
we trust the system of Reformed Legal Prac-
tice, about to be submitted to the Legislature by
the Practice Commission, will supessede the Cover
por's idea Of dividing our Supreme Court Judges
into Law and Equity Courts. IL will be a sore day
to MS when that distinction is reestablished.
Here We would gladly stop bu. the Cover
nors remarks on the subject Of the War remain TO
claim our attention. We regret that they are here,
but Truth ia as imperative with us as Patriotism
with His Excellency, as we shall proceed to show.
That Gov. Young well knows now. whstever
may have been his impression in May, lsi6, that
our Country was NOT invaded by Mexico we can
NOT doubt The recorded facts that Gen. Taylor was
met and warned asains, farther advance st the
Sal Colorado several marches East OF the Rio
Grands-that he found an Old Mexican community
of San lxab