New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-04
what Bites Them.

A Silver Gray thus explains and dstities
the factious course Of his squad IN letter
TO the Commercial Advertiser:
"Tbe reasons which have imPelled nearly one
third of the Wings Of Legislature to refuse 20
meet their brethren in caucus Tor the nomln Stlon
of Whig candidate for Senator, form, IN my
Judgment. a good and sufficient lustlfcatlon OF
their course. but as l seek light on THIS ana ali
other party questions, am, If wrong open 20 con
victiop. Let me state briefly some oil THESE rea'
sons: -, l..
The Silver Grays, Il use the terms given by
each party TO its opponents, resPectaOle n nun
hers have in their ranks a very large proportion
of the intellectual and moral strength OF the wing
partv in this State. For a series OF years tnis
branch of the partv has been systematically 0StTa
cf-ed hardly single instance can oe Mo"H q
tier Iteration 10 any position OF honor IH me gy'
of the other branch. On all OCCASIONS Wnen polltl
cal prizes were to be distributed consefEs ..,s
Wbig. as he was then called, stood no better
chance than Democrat. Allegiance to one man
was made the test of political fidelity
Now, this man does not know he Is ut
tering wholesale falsehood, yet such Is ne
yertheless the fact. There is no shadow OF
four dation for his charge. The Wing can
didates for Governor of our State since Gov.
Stewards election in 1910 have been as fol-
lows:
ls4a. Luther Bradish. 1916. John Young
1914. Milard Fillmore. ls4s. Hamilton Fish
1850. Washington Hunt.
During the same time the Whigs of our
State have had two candidates for Vice
President, as follows:
"A. The Frelinghuysen. As Millard Fillmore.
They have also had Cabinet appoint
ments as follows:
al Francis Granger John c. Spencer
1850. Nathan X. Hall.
lsodiplomatic appointments as follows;
q. George w. Lay. 40. James w. Webb.
49 j. 7. Van Allen. George Folsom.
Look these lists in the face, Mr.. Silver
Gray and own that those who told
YOU that Conservative Wings have had
nothing and Seward men everything
were shameless, abandoned liars 1t you
have a decent share of intelligence and
honesty, you knO,o that such is the fact
that more than half the desirable nOmina-
lions end appointments have been given to
your side of the party.
But Gov. Seward, it is charged, had
great influence with Gen. Taylors Ad-
ministration, and had the New York APP
pointn ents made very much as he pleased.
Let us see, then, what was the character
of these appointments. Here are all of
any consequence that we can remember;
Hngh MarwelI, Collector of the Port
PkliD Hone Naval Officer, do;
Zebedee Ring, Surveyor, do;
Henry f. I'dllmddge, District Marshal
- lie Roy, Navy Agent
John Young, Sub Treasurer;
William Y. Brady, Postmaster;
Hiram Fuller, Naval Storekeeper.
Where are the Seward men in this
list-all appointed when Gov. Seward was
most potent at Washington! What one
of them erer lcdS known as a Seward
man. or as anti Conservative We defy
the deluded calumniator in The CONNER
cial to Justify in any degree the charges he
has been duped into making They are
utterly baseless and unplausible, and we
ask The Commercial to publish the sub
stance of this contradiction.
Tur fraeb and FRAGRANT u,ueic Of