New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-06
After the Battle.


The returns Tor rather, the vague and
contradictory Telegraphic Dispatches we
this morning publish, imply less of the
Canal Board to the Wings. Whether that
portion of our State Ticket which the Union
Safety Committee saw fit to patronize is or
is not elected, is immaterial, so far as any
general consequence is regarded. We
shall be very hard to convince, by any thing
short of the State Official Canvass, that
Levi S. Chat6eld is reelected Attorney Gen.
eral but the rest of our State Ticket we
are now inclined to give up as defeated,
standing ready to take back the whole or
any part of it should later and more specific
returns Justify our so doing. For the
present, we will consider all our ticket de-
feated but Mr.. Ullman, and ehdeavor to
dIaw instruction from the causes of the
disaster.
The party which lives on the terms
Democratic and Democracy, when
restored to power in 1912, deliberately and
absolutely stopped the prosecution of our
State Canals, including the Erie Enlarge
ment. In lsiC, the same party Inserted IN
cur New Constitution clause intended 10
prohibit any future prosecution OF those
Public Works, except so fast as might be
paid for out of the ascruing Canal Rev
eaues of the State. This constitutional
provision has operated to prevent any
prosecution OF these Works. except so far
as the accruDg surplus of Canal Revenues
would pay the cost, down to the present
wear. when Gov. Hunt devised and Wing
Legislature adopted a plan FOR anticipating
future SURPRISES of Canal Revenues for
an indie finite period, and Herewith pro-
scouting cur unfinished Works, but with
out anv contingent liability on the
mart Of the State. This plan was
at orce assailed as unconstitutional, ffaudu-
lent. and characterized by almost every
other harsh adjective by the party out OF
power. Entirely and avowedly to prevent
IFS massage in the form of law, the last
LEGISLATURE was disOrganized, deprived Of a
Constitutional quorum and forced to pre-
mature adjournment, by the concerted resig-
nation of twelve Democratic Members;
and Special Election and an Extra Ses-
sion thus rendered necessary. The Special
Election was accordingly held half the
recusants beaten and the game of resigna-
ton thenceforth rendered impractlcable, or
rather inefficient. The Special Session
was had and the More Speedy Enlarge
ment hill enacted. But the oracles Of De-
mocracy' still denounced it as unconstitu-
tiopal and no law-still threatened Its
annulment by a Judicial decision that
il was unconstitutional and warned cap
italists against taking the stocks to be
created under its provisions as Invalid
and worthless and warned the public to
discredt and refuse the notes of any Banks
which might deposit those Stocks as basis
of their Issues, for those notes would be
unsecured AMI must inevitably fall into dis
credit. In defiance of this torrent of de-
nunciaticn and sbloquy, the first Million of
the Canal Fund Stocks were advertised, bid
for and taken, at trihe over par, and the
work on the unfinished Canals thereuPon
advertised to be let on the 18th inst.
And now the party which has manifested
such an embittered and chronic hostility to
this Speedy Enlargement project of Gov.
Hunt and his friends-which has, through
its Law Officer Of the Government, ITS Le-
gislative Address, its public meetings and
its journals. denounced the act as plain,
palpable and fragrant defiance of the Constr
tution-hold State Convention and grave.
" resolve that, as the ldsc has been passed,
it is better that the discussing Of the money
and the management of the work should be
confded to them, Their journals in the
Canal Districts change their tune add in.
sist that the Democracy is and always has
been the genuine Canal party-has built all
our Canals hitherto asd always been the