New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-30
PRINCE JOHN At sLP,yY.

htored effort at the Capital, might have felt
rsnted in crtcising il; but having filed our columns
with matter more generally acceptable, shall let
the speech pass with few casua observations on its
drift and spirit
We shall be guilty of no such needless cruelty as
scrutiny Of the Princes AntSsyery professions past
and present. BY the light Of his attitude and acts
Whether he is acting part when ayOwng his unabated
and eternal hostility to Slavery Extension or when
pressing his hearty approval of the Baltimore Platform
and the Pierce Inaugural leave TO the solution of
tine. Surely, be must know that the incPient steps
have already been taken toward the egalization BY
Congress OF Slavery in Nebraska territory expressly
shielded thererom by the terms of the Missouri Com
pronise-that Southern California is still the object OF
desperate though covert prOsiayery struggle-that
Northern Mexico is this day the object of slavehodng
Vaccination and lust-and that Cuba is necessarily
eted and intrigued for weighty adlition TO the
power and influence of Slavery in our Union Does he
beieve-cSn he believe-that silence ambiguity, aud
vigorous encouragement of all agitation, according
to the Baltimore Platform are the proper and adequate
means Of resistance to these encroachmens the do
main Of Freedom and Free Soil No--he cannot, does
not believe it, He is hbOrng under politicians ne
cessity which onehalf his speech at rreconesble
variance with the other.
But it the spin, OF this speech that most arrested
our attention The joval, careless humorous John OF
other days-he who commenced his address 10 the bolt
ing Barnburner. at Herkimer in AZ with d" Fellow
Traitors and started the music of Garry me back
Ito Old Virginia on Diekinson-does not appear in
this speech. Clearly, the Prince is morose He wax
eth lugubriOus. His temper is acrd His loud yaunts
OF victory at hand sound hollow, if arising from
weak stomach. And the savage bitterness wherewith
he assas Lot the consistency merely but the personal
integrity Of such men as Greene C.. Bronson seems 10
US an inexcussble blunder. All John John you viii
never heal the wounds in your party organization by
such surgery as that
Logic was never the Princes forte: but since wit
has failed him he ought at least TO try to reason with
some show of plsnsbility when he ventures to assa
tie moral honesty of all but the clique to which lie be-
longs There are good many people left in our State
who are politically Wings 40 far as they respond to any
party designation and the only gmmering of hope for
the Barnburners this Fall rests the presumption that
large portion of these will lie torpid through the Fall
campaign What folly, then, for John to insult these
grossly and wantorly he does in his talk about the
Canals An agree that the Ten Millions shall be
raised expressly to complete the Canals (thus runs
his line OF argument "but if the Wings are in power
they will steal and squander the money there ia no
safety but in confding it tOas'
Look here John you compel us to tell you some
homely urquestionsble truth and ii it should sit bad
" on your stomach you have only your own nSolence
to blame for it, Just look these facts in the face;
l. 1t is fact that you soft-shells took the State in
1851 on the strength of your Resolves and Pledges that
the Canals should be vigorously prosecuted to compile
~.th Co.. ga nd
that the only question to be decided BY the people was
whether you should be empowered TO do this honestly
and economically or the Wings allowed to do tprod
gally and wasteully.
3 IL is a fact that having thus secured power you
fasi6ed these professions and violated these pledges
stopping the Public Works you had promised vigorous
ly to prosecute
3 1t ia fact that, within eight months after you had
thus acquired power your own Canal Auditor "a Barn
burner at that officially reported that your Democratic
Canal Commissioners were squanderng on the Canals
some hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum more
under the garb of Management aud Repairs than their
Wing predecessors had done.
A. 1t is a fact that you Barnburners had previously
charged your Democratic Canal Commissioners with
entering into corrupt combinations and fraudulent bar
gains whereby the State TO be pundered of more
than Two Millions of dollars in the Canal contracts Of
1851
s. 1t is fact that you Softs and Barnburners having
made these sweeping charges Of corruption and mafeas
ance against the Canal Commissioners You had chosen,
turned square about at the ensuing Election last Fall
unanu ousy nominated aud trump hanty elected Fred
erich Follett one of these Canal Commissioners
b, you branded with the most fragrant corruption in
which t0R have empowered him to persist If he be in
deed the man you have pronounced him.
IL is fact that having thus reelected one OF these
Democratic Hard Canal Commissioners, you pro
ceeded rs soon as practicable to impoao the other,
bringing charges Of corruption against him which could
not be true without involving Folett deeply him
(slsther)
Z. 1t is fact that your Barnburnng Senator'S gen
eray voted this Democratic Commissioner guilty on
some of tie most fragrant of these charges.
3 1t is fact that after having for years fairly stun
ned the People with charges of Wing corruption mis-
management extravaganza &c in regard 10 the Canals
your Soft Assent bly, with ample powers and after full
investigation, preferred charges Of corruption
against any Wig whatever but only against Demo
cIat, BY you nominated and elected.
These are undeniable truths; and we submit that,
in view OF then, those who elected Maiher and re-
elected Foett-men whom they now accuse OF gigantic
l. alteration and corruPtion-reslected Follet mind
YOU after all that Canal Contract business and Prod-
rsir in Repairs had been fully exposed 10 public scru
usht 10 be very still about Canal corruption and
prodcaty II they have no better ground whereon to
AK continuance in power they might well let this