The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-16

ksScu IN ehdcafofng 10 OveHcHcn each other getting
sections in the annual supply bill for their friends 10 draw
money upon. An incredible has thus been squan-
dersd upon avortes in the shape of rewards for extra
services performed about the capitol and public offices"
Then, as to their leny TO public Offenders the attorney
raj OF the State Zone Of the few democrats In oce
openly charges ''thal committee appointed by the
assembly OF 1850 10 inquire into the public OF GER
tain officers charged with gross misconduct that Tie re-
port of that committee has been by this Legislature sup
pressed and the offenders shielded that another high
officer accused before this legislature of making
report Tor the commissioners OF the canal fund without
authority and with the OF one OF the commission.
ers forged upon IT. that committee raised upon
This charge, but that the investigation was smothered
and nothing done IN the premises that still another
funclionary charged with the public funds has, with
out authority Of law and in violation of his duty,
used those funds for unlawful purposes. and yet has gone
unquesoned OF those whose especial province was to
correct aud punish such abuses"
The French prototype OF legislative body provided
for aud favored the indulgence OF the royal caprice Our
whg majority, in spirit of compliance with the avow-
ed tastes OF their autocra and in open defiance OF public
sentiment and public deceney appropriated literally from
the treasury for the support OF literary institution, in
which the amalgamatlon OF and coors was openly
practised and encouragedihus tesying their willing
ness to sanction the widest and most dsoFganziDg va
gares oil socialism, required by their master 10 do
No French king would ever have exacted thing base
from his subjects nor if he had, would he have found
those degraded enough TO comply Most fortunately for
the credit of State, OF shame operated upon
sufficient number of the majority to enable it's opponents
to defeat the McGrawsvillc appropriation, though at the
expense Of all the other colleges and academies in the
list In host of other the action OF our whig
rulers has been right royal and anti republican
Our limits, however, will only permit TO specify one or
two II is our boast and pride that country is the
refuge of the oveburdened and oppressed from every
N, II hum rad thnuaa nd
ugitves from European despo,ism annually seek our
shores. by far the greater proportion OF whom are
landed at the port of New York. When the tenn
porary control OF 30 many poor and unfortunate souls
is vested in those whose interest is to make the most
they can out of them, is the while the emgrans
the hands OF the shippers and those connected with
them, it is but natural that they should suffer; and they
do suffer from abuses too gross and outrageous for hu
mainly to contemplate unmoved As some protection a
board of commissioners consisting OF three members and
hospital physician, constituted by former legsla
ture, whose duty it 10 watch over the interest and
welfare of the poor foreigners whom tyranny and dest
tuition had driven to take shelter coast. The eff
cheney of this board was, however, almost entirely de-
sroyed and its object defeated by the fact that the pnc
pal and most influential commissioner was himself the
proprietor of one of the great emgran lines of packets,
himself shipper and one OF those against whose exac-
lions this very commission Instituted safeguard
and defence The only protector of this helpless class
OF men the physcian-a Union wing. Complaints
rife and applications for relief poured in upon our
royal governor and his parliament at Albany. What
the result With sovereign contempt of the poor,
worthy of the days when the ancient nobesse of France
shot the tes and skaters from the roofs OF their houses
Tor sport, his exceency not only confirms the obnoxious
commissioner, hut in the commission with him the
proprietor of the other great emgrant packet line thus
placing The sheep wholly charge OF the wolves, and his
parliament at the time destroys the watchdog by
hapby If iaa hnI-
shed after the LIST Of January next The commissioners
support the Seward dynasty.
Again: We have chief OF police in this city who
with his force protects more than half million of souls
from rapine and murder So faithfully and skifully has
he exercised the duties OF his oce-so satisfactory
the evidences OF his experience integrity, and efficiency
that no one has thought OF questioning his politics. and
be has been confirmed and retained in his high station by
whig mayor and common council. But what IS the
safety OF this geA metropolis and the protection OF its
inhabitants 10 the petuation Of the Seward dynasty
The place 10 o6indusnce and power is needed for
royal favora; ADJ = majority Of Seward wings from
the remote interior undertake to legsaie out OF Office the
man. of all others. whom citizens have selected
watch their property and their lives. Of wha,
sequence is the fitness OF man for place OF surb
responsibility, if he do not support the Seward dy.
nasty
But the old French pariaments crushed every ebul.
l,on OF popular feeling and suppressed every ex-
preston of popular sentiment And here, again, our
Seward parliament is not whit behind it's prototypes
For time past common country has been
distracted by the OF faction Discussions have
grown up between the sstehood OF States and dsunon
has reared its frghul head, and threatened with dire
caames The grea, and good from every quarter and
of every creed have Joined 10 End a remedy One has
been found and the great council of the nation has adopt
ed measures to restore the calm and prosperous Tranquil
lily we once enjoyed The Of the people here,
well as elsewhere, have heartily responded to the par
otto effort. Time and again. through different channels
by whig we'll democratic voices have they called
upon their representatives those who should h1ue rep
resented them. TO give their feelings tongues 10 promu
gate their sentiments TO testify for them that they the
people OF New York, faithful TO the constitution
and the laws, and would support the Union with the
lives And what has been the of the Seward
parliament suen, stern, con,emptuous silepce. II
upon their say bad hung their counirys destiny, the WORD
had not been spoken They died. and gave sign and lei
us hope that with them died the wing and free soil rule
never TO be revived.
Shall we, in view OF what have seen, ever again
place our necks beneath the Seward wing yokei Will
the people OF the United States after the example Of
whg rule which this legislature has set them, submit the
desiinies OF the republic wing domination Time will
show We trust not But should such a contingency
hapessly arrve will bring with il the downfall OF our
country. H.
Gee slon Corr