New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-15
The Candidates for Governor.

Each has the requisite familiarity with pubic al
fairs an3 is fitted TO f the station repOtsbly and
discharge its duties faithfully. Though with
out farther data than our memory furnishes, We
propose to give a hasty dagueueotype Of each
REUBrS II WALwORTH must be nearly or quite
90 years of age. He first came before the public
as an ardent Bucktail politician in the days OF De
Witt Clinton, was lawyer at Plattsbursh some
twenty-five years ago, fell naturally into the Craw-
ford or Regency opposition b. the Electoral Law,
and on the legal approximation Of Chancellor
Kent. some twenty years since, he was appointed
20 tina, important and lucrative post. Since he
became OF age 70 hold Office he has generally been
well provided for, and is said 10 have opposed and
voted against our excellent New Constitution
viii Oh abolished his post of Chancellor. He IS
laborious, pans-iaking oicerb but not truly Iurist
His decisions have rarely established or eluclda-
ted principle 30 as to make one case settle |
or forestall many others. For this reason though |
reunited a hard worker, he never could begin to dis
pose Of the business incumbent on him and If he
had continued Chancellor until 1900, with Wee
Chancellor of his own choosing in each Assembly |
District his calendar would have still sweled
aud sweled to the last, causing grievous wrong
and suffering through delays OF justice II must
some what confuse the ExChancelOr alter thirty
years communion aud alliance with Van Buren,,
Wright, Flagg. Young, &c. TO find himself now
pitted aganstthem. Had he not been by long Office
holding Hunker he would by sympathy have been
aparnburner He was not popular with practtion
ers in his Court, being deemed grabbed and too
much addicted to anticipating and ntenuPting their
course of argument. No one, however, ever ques.
toned the uprightness of ms decisions. He Is
devout Christian, leading and thorough Tenn
perance man, and an active promoter OF the great
Religious enterprises OF the day, for which we
trust no one will be base enough TO seek TO excite
prejudice against him as was done with Mr. Free
hnghuysen. We have had much worse Governors
than he would be.
joins A. DIX is perhaps 80 years Old and was
raised we believe, in Otsego County, educated at
West Point and commenced Political life as an
aati- Regency or Adams man, In 1925. After
the breakdown of the last-named year, he went
over 10 Jacksonism aud being capable and popu
lar won rapid promotion. He was soon appointed
Adjutant. General, and aiterward Secretary OF
State under Marcy dschsrging the duties OF either
station with decided tact aud ability From 1889
he was out Of Office till lsl5, when he was chosen
al. :. Senator which station he now holds
Mr.. DIX, with many good qualities. blends one
fatal .sut-lack of nerye-of bodness-decision
sympa,hising fully with the Van Buren,, Wright,
Free-Tertitory section of the party, knowing full
well the reluctance with which that section had
succumbed To the Texas domination at Baltimore
in "a, and the pledges it had made TO our people
that Texas should not be annexed except on con
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Slave States, MIR Dix went 10 Washington with the
whole question virtually in his hands. His infu
ence and vote would have stopped Annexation
he had BAT to say, Gentlemen of the South half
Texas must be Free Soil and he could have die
tatei his own terms Unhappily he allowed him
sell to be caoled by Polk unme assured alsehoods
holding ont to him assurances that Flag should
be Secretary OF the Treasury, Coddington Collec-
tor Of tina Port, SC. while Bentons plan OF An
nexetiou should be adopted instead OF Milton
Browns--uot one of which promises was, aud
probably neither meant to be, fulfilled. But
on the streng th of them Mr. Dix voted for Annex
alton, ON the double headed plan and his vote
carried 1t, e5 to 9s.) Tie must live long to retrieve
that blunder.
Unhsppily he lived years before attempting to
Proviso and that was about ali HIS voice was
never raised to warn his constituents against the
continual encroachments of the Slavery Propa-
ganda until the eleventh hour Even when the
miscreant Foote ventured to tell a Senator Of the
United States tina, he would help hang him with
out Judge or Jury II he had him in Mississippi
and this for merely introducing perfectly proper,
understandable and urgently necessary bill TO
protect private property in the District OF Colum-
bis from destruction by mobs-Mr. Dix sat silent,
uttering no rebuke, evincing no indignant oath.
ing Even the Baltimore outrage on the repre-
sentstives OF the Free Democracy of New-Nork
failed visibly to move him; aud he at last barely
followed has friends in taking the stand which had
become inevitable. Had John Van Buren, occu-
pied his place in the Senate, there would not now
have been question as 10 which was the DeIno
cratic party of New York, and which would poll
the greater vote in November. Mr. Dix bas re.
Gently made two speeches ON Slavery Exten.ion
OF a very high order-lucid, thorough and con
vincing. He never makes any o.her than able
speeches. But he sometimes sacks forecast and
is not always as prompt % act as efficient when
his course has been taken He has thus far ranked
higher as a debster than as a statesman. but we
trust has yet before HIM years of usefulness and
honor.
OF HAMILTON FISH We shall speak more
guariedly knowing aud esieeming him as we do
while bis competitors are known TO US only as to
all their fellow citizens. Mr.. Fish is probably
younger than any former candidate for this exalt-
ed station, Tompkins and Seward excepted
hardly more than IS. Born in this City, which
has ever been his home, he Is identified with her
interests, and the fsvorite and pride of her Wing
Young Men. The son OF a Revolutionary soldier
who was beloved and confded Ia by sshington.
tCapta ain of his Guards Mr.. Fish has been ever
a firm, devoted Wing. and has been repeateS. ~
honored by testimonials OF the confidence Of his
Wing fellow citizens though the strons looo-To-
CO majority in our City has generap.y suaiced to
keep him out Of public lite. In eas, however he
was chosen to Congress fro a q decidedly Loco
Foco District, and serve . torn, 70 the thorough