New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-17
A Compliment to sub.Treasurer Young.

A committee appointed by the friends OF the
Hon. JOHN YOUNG, have rendered him the honor
of public dinner, in order to show their appre
citation of his worth at the same time that they
repair the damages he has suffered from being
abused to an extent and with bitterness I'M
paralleled in the history of party warfare" This
Committee consists of Messrs. David Graham,
James Van Nostrand C. S. Woodruff James g.
Thayer, Henry Suydam, Jr. Marshall o. Roberts
Edmund Griffin, Robert c. Wetmore and John f.
Butterworth. In their letter of invitation they
take an original and interesting view of the poll
tics of the State and the career of the gentleman
whose public services and private virtues they
propose to celebrate They say;
The time and all the circumstances seem to US
suggestive of this entertainment and we trust
that the occasion, and its incidents and results,
will verify our judgment.
We have lust issued from an annual election,
remarkably important and interesting In its conse'
ouences. This election has resulted in the con-
tinuance of that ascendancy OF the Wing party
in the great State Of New,York which began
with your election as Governor in 1886.
We wish to renew our obligations to that perl
3D. and, while we are not unmindtul OF the strug-
gle which has resulted IN the election OF the Sec
ond of YOUR Wing successors in that high Office
and indulge the hope Of long unbroken continu-
ance of the successioA,-to associate with the
grateful thought of present success, just remem-
brance Of the arduous and faithful labors which
raised the Wing Party in this State, from the
deepest depression it had ever known, to trl-
umph which was the beginning of a series that
has survived the divisions and overthrow OF the
victorious party then opposed to 1t.
The memorable contest of 1874 In which you
faithfully and unpretendngly labored with us, re-
suited in a defeat so great and complete, as TO
leave many of the most sanguine, sagaclous and
able Of our party in utter despair. 1t was just
after that defeat that you entered the Legislature
of the State as one OF the feeble Wing minority
Your previous services in two Congresses Of the
United States as we'll as in the Legislature, natu-
rally indicated you as the leader of the Wing MI
nority.
You had able and iudicious supporters in the
Legislature. Your well conceived and well d.
rected attacks on the popular majority, your lore
sight and yoEr adroit management OF the desPoho'
ing forces that small minority OF the Legislature
of ls45 and 1896 rived asunder the two factions OF
the Democratic party, and revived in every true
Wing heart the hope OF triumph before despair,
ed of and which could never have been realized
but under your direction. To your exertion OF the
powers thus committed 70 you, the people oil New
York owe their present revised and improved Con
stitution, with the subsequent and consequent I'M
provement of their laws. And while you gave US
this by a consentaneous action with one section
of your opponents, you by like cooperation with
the opposite section, secured a resumption OF the
suspended public works which gave this State its
imperial eminence in the Union and throughout
the World, and by which, this great City maintains
and long will maintain, its place as the chief me-
dunn of communication between the two Con-
tinents of the globe.
That you shoald be in 1876 the Wing candidate
for Governor ofthis State, was matter Of course
You had an unwilling competitor for that nomlna
ton. He did not desire it, and his name was used
without his wish, because, stated with labors ana
honors in the public service, he only sought re-
pose and the welfare Of his State and country, In
honorable retirement.
But Providence had other and higher purposes
unconceived by him. We know that no man In
the State was better pleased with your nomina-
tion or with your election.
Heis now President ofthe United States. Your
antagonist in that election was Slas Wright, the
only and the last man that could have maintained
in power and union that mighty Democratic party
which elected him to the high Office from which
YOU displaced him Over his lamented death and
honored grave many patriotic hearts, long divided
by party spirit, unite in silent yet eloquent testi-
mony oil Republican peoples gratitude ter faith