New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-29
NEW LORDS AT ALBANY.


NEW LORDS AT ALBANY.
The political revolution for some time in
progress will be consummated in our State on
Tuesday of next week by the assembling of
strongly Democratic Assembly at Albany.
The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Canal
Board Heads of Departments, Legislature
(for the Senate is united against us by the
Lieut.. Governor) will henceforth be, at least
through the ensuing year, and most of them for
two years, of politics adverse to ours, and
backed by popular majority so commanding
as to give strong assurance Of stability.
Yet it would be most unwise for our new
rulers to fancy themselves lifted above the
chances, or even the probabilities, of downfall.
On the contrary, they have been waited to
power BY concurrence OF favoring gales which
even they can hardly hope TO find blowing so
fairly and freshly second time. They can hard
" hope to have the sympathy and aid of Wing
Hunkerism and Democratic Free SOism in
any subsequent struggle. They can hardly cx-
pect again to pile up their extra majorities OF
80 in the Anti-Enlargement Counties and at
the same time poll an outside party vote in the
Canal region. They will hardly be able again
to combine perfectly such discordant elements
as are implied in the running of Seymour,
Church and Follett on the same State Ticket
Throughout the late contest, the Wings were
widely and effectively assailed as the authors OF
the famous Canal Contracts made at Albany
one year ago, although no Wing in nomination
had borne any part in making those Contracts,
while Mr. Commissioner Follett, running for
reelection on the Pierce and King ticket, had
been one Of their foremost cOntrivers and de-
tenders at the Caral Board We do not think
the combined adroitness of Seymour and
Aaron Ward, Croswell and John Van Buren,,
could make that saw work again.
Indeed, we presume the shrewder magnates
of the party understand that their position
is critical, and that the acts which achieved
will not suffice to fortify and retain it. Gov.
Seymour is n man Of good personal standing,
popular manners, fair talents and ample for
tune aud these have gone far toward achiev-
ing position which they will need reinforce
ments to maintain. He has seen fit to traverse
the Canal portions of the State and volunteer
pledges that the More Speedy Enlargement
should, in case of his triumph, be pushed yigor-
ously TO completion. The Canal men have
taken him at bis word his majority exceeds
his widest anticipatory boast; his backing in
the new Assembly is ample, and bis plans for
pressing on the Enlargement, whatever their
nature, will meet with little resistance from
the flying remnants of the routed Wing party;
while, should they promise TO accomplish their
protested object, they will probably meet a
warmer and more unanimous support from our
side than from his own. There is no Judicial
dodge now practicable, like that which covered
without concealing, save from the eyes of the
williuy blind, the great swindle of 1851, and the
two years Of Gov. Seymours present term must
see the great enterprise well under way, or no
device can avail TO reflect him in 1854. The
People viii infer from what will then have been
what is to be, and cannot be longer deluded by
premises.
The Canal Policy Of what claims 10 be Demo.
crazy in our State has been most calamitous to
New-YOrk, and hardly less so to the Great
West lying beyond it. Had the counsels and
plans Of Gov. Seward and his advisers been
vigorously and consistently followed by his sue
cessors, the Erie Canal would have been
long since the noblest artificial channel in thu
known world, yielding gross revenue of Four
to Five Millions per annum, and swelling the
trade OF our City to an extent unparalleled in
history. Our State Debt would have been less
this day, with the Enlarged Canal completed
In le45, than it now is with nearly half the
work still to do, and none of its ADVANTAGES
yet realized. There is not bushel of grain
grown on Western farm, there is not an AGRA
of land between Syracuse and Dubuque. that
would not have been considerably increased in
value from the date of the completion of our
Grand Canal. But Tyler's treaehery distracted
the Wings in '41-2, and the wholesale yillainv
Of State Reputation in the West and South
West depressed the credit Of solvent as we'll
as bankrupt States, until the money-lenders
and stockjobbers-always faithless and short.