New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-28
HOW is the state e

Election; but we say to all with the
most earnest conviction of its truth that
the Wing State Ticket cannot be beaten, IN
less by some unimag ENABLE treachery. From
every part of the State we have cheering adj
vices. No one writes, We shall do worse
than last year while from nearl y every
quarter we have the cheering assurance,
I'VE shall do better and often much bet
ter The Wing spirit seems fully aroused,
and the slight fracture that seemed to
threaten our disruption has but demonstrat-
ed more strikingly our substantial unanim-
ity. Out of this City, the Boilers had
practically no followers, and here the offi-
GERS were out of all proportion to the rank
and file Throwing out the of1ice-holders,
office-seokers and a small class which the
Journal of Commerce and Herald are try
ing to frighten into Elasticity of visage by
ridiculous cry of peril to the Union-and
the Wing party-stilI more than Two Hun
bred Thousand strong without them-was
never more united in sentiment than 1t
now is. It's masses are devoted to and
proud of the Principles on which it was
Frustrated by deception and fraud In 1914
and on which it gloriously triumphed in
al and '48. On those Principles, endeared
to them alike by reyerses and by triumphs
they are now preparing to move forward to
another signal and benefcent victory.
1t seems to US morally impossible that
WASHINGTON Hunt should not be chosen
Governor. We do not disparage his oppo-
nent when We say that of the two Mr.
Hunt is by far the better entitled to the
support of warm-hearted and generous Re-
pubicans of every class and cline. For
six years q Member of Congress, his votes
and his acts in that bod y were ever on the
side of Justice, Humanity and Freedom
While Horatio Seymour was lending his
talents and his influence to uphold the Cass
doctrine that Congress has no right to i'm
pede the introduction of Slavery into any
Free Territory of the Union, WASHINGTON
HUNT was struggling and voting in affir-
nation of the right and duty of Congress
to interpose by positive enactment and pre-
serve Free Soil for Free Labor. Three
Hundred and Forty Thousand Freemen of
our State proclaimed by their votes in 1913
that Washington Hunt was right and Ho-
ratio Seymour wrong on this momentous
question. few may have since been Sc
duced into self-desertion or bulled into 81
lence by threats Of Cotton embargo, but
the immense majority were not made of
such himsy material, They stand where
their fathers stood in 1877, and again in
1920. The great Heart of New Y DIRK beats
true and warm for Justice and Liberty. The
votes Of Washington Hunt were ever cast
on the side of Free Labor-of its Protec-
ton from unfair and depressing rivalry, of
its consequent moral and social elevation,
and of the preservation for its use and bcne-
fit of the vast Territories recently added to
our National Domain. The Frecmen of
New York have watched his public career
and emphatically approved it. The chill
dren of unhappy Ireland remember his
proposition to appropriate Half Million
Dollars from the National Treasury to re-
lieve the sutferings of the starving people
of that desolated island during the great
famine of 1647. We, who hesitated for a
moment to petition for much larger appro-
priation, have now no doubt of the far-see
ing wisdom as we'll as humanity Of Mr..
Hunts proposition. Our Country eNpends
Twenty Millions every year for National
Defense; whereas Three Millions year
expended in such deeds of charity and mer-
cv as Mr.. Hunt proposed would enable us
to dispense with at least half our Military
and Naval ornaments yet be far better
shielded from Foreign encroachment and
aggression than we now are. What despot,
what military chieftain, could raise an ar
my of poor men to attack and despoil the
homes of People who regularly dispensed
in charity to the needy and suffering of
stranger lands the sum of Three Millions
year!
In the close election of l849 there were
eight candidates on each State Ticket-six-
teen in all-and WASHINGTON Hunt came
out at the head of the poll. We believe it
viii be so this year. His service in the
responsible and arduous post of Controller
has given universal satisfaction. That Of
flee has beea held successfully by the
ablest men of.each party in our State, and
none ever won more general or hearty ap