The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-05-16
The Desperation Of the wing Canai-Jobbers
In New York.


The leading presses which speak for the majority OF
the wing party in New York hsreey denouncing the
democratic Judiciary OF that State for having maintained
the authority of the constitution and crushed under Its
weight the fraud the wing party pepetated upon the
people and the fundamental law by their loan
bill. The Albany Atlas exposes this desperation OF the
wing press in the following article
AssAmRe JUDIoIARY-We that the presses In tho
interest of the clique that has just been baed by the In
tegry of the in their attempt TO get possession Of
nine millions OF canal revenues, aud who have only sue
ceeded in delaying the completion Of the public works and
inurng their friends have commenced vindic
tive and personal assault upon the judiciary The sancu
OF constitutions of laws. Of oahs and Of tribunals OF JUS
tice is nothing TO them when excited by hei cnpdiy or
enraged under the stngs OF disappointed rapacy Re-
gardess Of that words can re
woke the unalteble decision OF the court, yet willing 10
ncucae the lesson of INSTRUMENTATION its DEGREES and
to invoke and influence popular hatred against t-they
have commenced OF accusation and viluperaton, for
which, fortunately there is parallel in the history Of this
State
But il speaks well for the advocates Of the canal bill Of
1851 that the great majority OF the press that favored It's pas
sage yield the supremacy of the laws, that II is de-
cided Unconstitutional acquesce in the result, and look
out for other and Legitimate OF communicating the
completion OF the public works. Is The BLACK MAIL
PRESS alone that thus assas the Judiciary The muir
of Evening Journal echoed by the Rochester
Democrat in nsinuations and muered changes but in the
Buffalo Express they swell out into and brutal vol
ume That prnt-us convicted before the Legislature oil
the habtua practice OF corrupt exorion as means Of ex
istencecomplans that the public scandal that will arise
from sosd judicial en,as, and the grievous distru IN
the nfegrity of The judiciary which this unoward decision
will cngender, is equally public calamity
These affiliated presses would not be content with words
but would assa with harder missiles the occupants OF the
bench but that their hands still full OF the wages Of
torionl
" Wewil not dwell on the ominous import of such COM
bnaton for such purpose; but call the attention of
the public the fact that these first banded
together in their projects Of extoon when Gov Hunt was
comptrole that they piled their trade successfully during
his administration and that they together In
saut upon the judicial institutions of the State in which
he, its executive, led off I"
The enumeration here given Of the journals which take
the lead in this foul assault upon the court OF appeals
the Albany Evening Journal being at the head Of them
and the abolitonist-whg Buffalo Express at the tail
leaves doubt to which section Of the wing party
crashes its teeth with the violence the explo
sion OF the great fraud, or as to what interest in the
wing party it mainly designed to support But if the
canal job was primarily got up, with all its train OF cor
rup results, commencing with fragrant violation OF the
constitution, in order to perpetuae the power OF that
abotonist. wing connection in New York which has
made General Scott its chosen candidate for the pres
dency, is yet only just to state that the influence Of
the present administration understood to be also
freely used to the end. The "Dunkirk Stampede"
which last summer, Just in the midst OF the Cuban bust
ness, whrled the whole executive government-Presi.
dent cabinet, and about of Washington exactly in time
TO eeconee for the State then in hot progress
and leaving the government in that crisis OF foreign
relations be cared for by clerks and desks, IN
dersood and exposed by this journal at the time
movement primarily designed 10 insure the passage of
the then meditaed canal bill 1t then appeared that no
wing virtue saunch enough TO resist the seducons
OF snug round OF nine millions, be obtained for
eleconeeng at greater cost than papable vio-
a,ion OF the constitution, and probable consequent de-
angemen OF the finances and perhaps the credit OF the
Empire State.
1t is remarkable in this connexion and as showing
the spirit OF wing legislation that the Albany State Regis
ter, the home organ OF the Standardization which
we yesterday cited denunciaton of the working OF
the wing canal.loan bill as a stupendous scheme OF
plumber and vany pepetraed in open defiance Of the
constituencies in the very article to
mend that the constitution be forthwith altered so as to
remove the constitutional barrier similar law in fu.
ture
Assuming, obliged do, tina, the pres
law repugnant to the provisions OF the constitution,
frankly confess that suggest other short oil
an amendment OF instrument We regret the necess
ty OF such expedient Il was shorsghted
policy that tied up, by constitutional prohibitions the
OF the State made them available tadiy
meet its accommodating necessities"
or course this suggestion is based by the Register upon
the admitted importance Of enlargement OF the canals
and starting from that point, the Register, in the true
wing spirit is for throwing down once all the bull.
warks which the people of New York have erected in
their fundamental law against unwse and corrupt fnan-
cial legislation.
To show how this matter, the other hand, is re-
garded by the democratic party suboin the following
resolutions. adopted by the Democratic General Commit.
tee Of New York city:
Whereas, by a decision Of the court OF appeals
OF the State Of New York, the law usually known the
onal and void and whereas believe that the infsrus
of the people this State depand speedy of
canals provided the be done with due regard
the requirements Of the copsituton and proper economy
and1fs rness In the manag cement thereofi therefore,
Resoped That I'm view Of the said decision, and of the
effects thereof pom the interests Of this city and State
respectfully upon the the propriey of
rfhch corptstng the hgisiafsre for the purpon Of corf
OfnR and adopting such lao quickly
the enlargement of the ca~ais, and caurg to be unlimited
constitution"
Without undertaking to express any opinion as to the
policy Of extra session Of the Legislature here rec
commended il is enough TO observe that the democrats
while regarding the enlargement OF the canals as an i'm
poran object yet deem proper proceed in that BUSH
in obedience to the constitution and the will OF the
people, instead Of overriding boh as but for the timely
inerposon OF the judiciary, the wings would have done
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