New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-14

its executioner. Compare this with the course OF
q really great aud good man, john JAY, who
was Governor OF this State at the the time OF Jei
fersons election In 900. Gov. Jay was most ar
IDENTITY and conscientiously opposed 70 Jefferson
deeIning him not merely uusound pphticiah
but a bad man Tie State Election " as held ID
April aud the Democrats carried the Legls
lature House and Joint Ballot by very
small if any popular majority. The old Legs
lature Was still legally in being, ardentiy + ed
eral In both branches and Gov jay hsa only
10 call i, together and recommend the passage OF
an act giving the choice OF Presidential Electors
10 the People by Districts and be could stu have
secured the defeat Of Jefferson None can doubt
thai for this end Gov !. would have made any
personal sacrifice short Of bis integrity as Chris
tan statesman and his honor as just man. Yet
he did not even seek the credit Of refusing to DO
this but among bis papers after his death, many
wears distant. was fund one suggesting to and
urging upon him the course above indicated, with
the simple endorsement Recommending to me
"a measure for party purposes which 90 not
think il would become me to adopt SUCH Is
the difference between the goodness and great
ness Of Silas Wright and those Of John Jay
Judge H sravely contradicts statement made
in his Political History that Mr. Wright P'edgfo
himself before his election 70 support the People
Electoral Law He says:
We have now before ndubtable evidence tnai
no pl.aze was given required INDEPENDENT OF MI
Wriehts frank and unreserved declarations 70 'hO-e
with whom he happened TO converse on the SUBJECT
Verify, this is most excellent iooling' MI
Wright political opponents in ST. Lawrence hap
pened 70 be in favor Of voting for President them
| selves instead Of having their Legislators choose
Tor them, and they very naturally happened to ask
his opinion on the subject, and were glad 10 ind
that he happened 10 agree with them. Regarding
this question as paramount, they voted IN body
for their friend and neighbor, though OF another
party instead Of man living weeks journey
away Of whom they knew next to nothing. By
these votes given on the strength OF his own
frank and unreserved declarations Mr. Wright
happened TO be elected. If he was not thus IN all
honor pledged 20 sustain the Electoral Law. how
could he have been And II his insidious and
deadly hostility TO that law was not fragrant
wrong-a gross and inexcusabls perhdy-wbat
could have been
We touch on another point Illustrative OF the
extreme inaccuracy Of information for one who
assumes to be the Political Historian OF our State.
Judge Hammond, lp. 2O7) gravely narrates'
"Prevous 20 the election of Presidential Electors IN
November l5i0 plan appears % have been contrved
to smugge into the City OF New York inhabitants Of the
City Of Philadelphia who should on their ARRIVAL IN
New York be rsuduently introduced 10 the inspectors
Of election legal voters in that city This plan was
discovered previous It's contamination by Col JOhn
d stevenson now in command Of regiment OF United
states volunteers in California. Mr. Stevenson VINO
then acting with the Wing party some time IN sep
tember 1910 held a conversation with one J b Client
worth inspector of tobacco respecting the probable
result OF the ensuing election, and the necessary ar
rangemens which ought to be made IN order TO secure
success &c. sc.
What n budget of bunders Stevenson was
never for a single day Wing, and never pretended
20 be one save while prowlng about Philadelphia
onder false name, on the strength OF fraudulent
letters Of introduction from his crony Glentworth.
There was absolutely no PLAN, no semblance nor
prctenco OF any to smugge voters into this City
from Philadelph in Nov. 1910. The story told by
Glentwor,h was that certain Wings had done this
in s3- whcreupon in revenge for the refusal oil
these Wings to procure his roappointment TO OF.
flee, he conspired with Stevenson, partner in
business, to involve certain Wings Of Philadcl-
pha in 1870, under the utterly false prctence that
such scheme was on foot here. The plot was
contrved on purpose to produce an explosion
which should defeat Gen. Harrison. 1t was known
tosLoco Foco leaders, and them only, unless Client
worth be termed an exception. How can Judge
II have been thus confused and mystiied