New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-28
OUR CJTY,s INFlMY.

I Strong as was the conviction every where
/ entertained of the measureless corruption
and shameless rapacity of our present Com
mon Council, we believe the revelations of
Saturday made by the Grand Jury before the
Recorder and a brace of Aldermen will be re.
ceived at distance with surprise. That our
Aldermen were corrupt was not doubted, but
the state Of facts disclosed shows them so
careless of appearances, so bare-faced in
robbery, so ravenous for the wages of treason
TO their sworn duty, that even the hardened
in iniquity must be shocked by it, Aud though
the blasting facts elected VIGOROUSLY bear no
proportion to those yet unreyealed, yet they
bear such unmistakable traces of the system
to which they belong-they are so indisputably
part and parcel Of the general management of
our City's Financial interests by her chosen
ru!ers-that no one can read even thus much
and not be morally certain that this Emporium
has been bled at every pore--that a majority
OF her legislators and official guardians have
conspired to rob her and share the plunder-
and that the amount of their Joint depreda-
tons must be reckoned by millions.
1t is our pride to know that The Tribune
has waged exterminating war on this system
Of corruption from the first moment when il
became obvious-that we opened upon it when
the stealing was done by hundreds of dollars
where 1t has since risen to hundreds of thou
sands, and when large majority of the COun-
els were our Political friends-and that we
have not wayered nor held back for moment.
When they frst asked for specifications of their
rottenness, we gave them facts and affidavits
TO their hearts content. We rejoice in the
honor conferred upon us by this corrupt cabal
in taking away from Us its Advertising at
$1,000 year and giving il 20 the Satanic
Press for $4,000 Even the constitutional au.
dacity Of that brazen sheet fails it in view of
the astounding disclosures of Saturday, and il
can only stammer out the following appeal for
suspension Of the public Judgment already
fully made up:
" Z needless % comment on this document 70 da,
ne give Il 70 the public who will Judge for itsef Of d.
grave ACQUISITIONS Contained IN Z time tiat ne
n
re AoEesfs o. hf rbeys o. he City Government SLoI5
assa-s soHetaing lie dlsAc igpe aud form al thaf
" Erue thoSe mahgned BY them nigh. have an ooo
tsnfy q rtfuting them That occasion has noy, 5~e
stlied lsei, anu congratulate he 4lderralr .. "a,
eAeree Tx Afforded Lzs Of ezeEDGn tssasel,ss h. TO-.
me ba. Of justice, and OF pubic opinion and raSsn
Jron ueH eAGrsG1s nc Josl slams citk rkiel loEd
i0Hss<a Galway has GsP0sed than
yes Dyes gentlemen Of the Common
Council! if you have any business before the
Court Of Public Opinion, or anything 20 urge
Why judgment should not be pronounced upon
you draw near ard you shall be heard
81 Sir, SIR" said hard boy when caught in
his friends bedroom under rsry suspicious cir
cumstaDces, al this con be explained"
Wen' l hope it can" was the dubious reply
Oi the proper occupant ; il NEEDS il badly
And now, Legislators al Albany if Won will
90 nothing else for the relief of this enormous
iy sEindled AID abused city. at least do this
much-ProSiSt for erer more any Aldermen
ae''rS ~ judicial capacity You have had
the proposition before you some two years in
TIE closing Report Of tie Commissioners of
Practice, which ought long since to have been
enacted into law-now cot upon ii Nothing
. better settled than that Judicial and Leris-
i.tlve functions ought nsrsr 20 be united in the
sane hands, yet yea allow our Alderman "a 20