New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-24


American mechanics on American soil "a
Their than added to the permanent wealth oil
Grea. Britain or Frsnce-ali these are bai-
fed and Knocked by the policy einO'died
il our present Tariff, and which New I 'rA
is now asked to approve by e'ectins the
o,position State Ticket. How can she
resolve to do it :
,. On the question Of RIVER AND HAIR
BOX IMPROVEMENTS, the Interests ard con-
victions of our People were equally hlrno-
NOUS, Up to the time when the coalition OF
her then leading politicians with the Caro-
lin, Obstruc,ives led to the discovery that
saudbars across the mouths of Harbors
with overslaughs and muscleshoals IN 9TH
erwise nayigable Rivers were uRder the
benign guardianship of the Resolutions OF
'gs ard must never be interfered with.
Our PEOPLE DO know that scarcely River
can be improved, a Harbor rendered access
sible and safe, in any part of the Union.
without directly increasing the Trade OF
their Great Emporium and the Revenues OF
their Canals. The carmen in or streets,
the stevedores on our Wharves, the boat
men, brakemen and yictualers along our Ca
nails and Railroads, with the farmers who
supply them with food, &C., &c, have all
a direct interest in the vigorous prosecu-
ton of River and Harbor Improvements,
which Loco-F ocoism has contrived almost
wholly to arrest and prevent for several
years past. Why should a party name
induce men to vote year after year for that
which paralyzes their own energies and OBJ
structs their prosperity!
3. As to our great STATE ISSUE, how can
there be question or hesitation! Our State
has spent some Twenty Millions of Dollars
on works which remain unproductlve, be-
cause incomplete. Meantime, rival works
are being vigorously prosecuted by Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia and other
States, which must inevitably draw away
from our Canals good part of their present
business unless counteracted. Yet, in the
face of these facts, the Loco-Foco party
fastened upon our State Constitution
clause intended to prevent the completion
of our Erie Enlargement and Lateral Ca
nails except as the Surplus Tolls should pay
the cost. Gov. Hunt and his advisers de-
vised plan of prosecuting those works Wig
orously to completion without infringing the
terms of the constitutional clog. The Wings
sustained this plan; the Opposition, with
very few exceptions, vehemently denounced
and resisted it. The Senators of that party
cOnspired to resign in body and break up
the last Legislature. expressly to defeat this
Speedy Enlargement; the Party organiza-
ton sustained them in this course; one hun
bred guns were fired at Albany in exuta-
ton over the Legislative breakup and the
issue carried thence to the People, in the
Special Election which followed On that
issue they were met and signally beaten.
But still they did not give it up They
fought the Enlargement bill inch by inch
through the Extra Session they tried to
kill it by all manner of deadly amendments
their Attorney-General, who had signalized
himself from the outset by the most foul
mouthed abuse of the measure as inconceiv-
ably corrupt and atrociously unconstitution-
al, proclaimed that somebody (whom he re-
fused TO name when officially required) had
offered him Ten Thousand Dollars if he
would now cease his warfare on the Speedy
Enlargement project which offer he indig
nanty spurned. And now that Attorney
General is the party candidate for reelec-
ton, and expects to succeed by the votes of
men friendly to the measure on which he
has waged such barbarian war
Through three fourths Of the State to-
day, hostility to the Speedy Enlargement
is the guiding principle of the self-styled
Democracy. Not one avowed friend of
that measure-certainly TO one whose
friendship is three months old-has been
placed on their State Ticket. And yet, by
nominating local candidates who now pro-
fess to favor the measure, they expect to
swindie twenty thousand of its supporters
In the Canal Counties out of their votes
They cheat deliberately and on system, and
expect to win the State by wholesale
fraud. Thus The Eren'ng Post, exulting
over the defeat of DR.. Brandreths nomina-
ton for Senator in the Westchester District
declared that the Democratic party are hos
tile to the Speedy Enlargement bill and mean
TO repeal It, while, about the same day. the
patty held County Nominating Conven-