New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-06

State for Labor. Food and MaterIais' VIC "a's
believe His Excellency knows better-knoSs
that every dollar so borrowed and expended
in time of embarrassment is positive reie'
10 our Industrious Glasses.
Bnt the Governor has discovered that CanA
Tolls are 8 tax on transportation, and tnat, "
We owed no debt, the rates OF toll might De
considerably reduced Certainly. If Canals
could be made (as some Governors are) oil
mere talk. or other such cheap and eqaivocai
material. the tolls levied thereon might be
very considerably reduced. But, looking
little further in the Message, We find that these
past Expenditures, so deplcred By the Cover
nor. have not been wholly fruitless-that, while
the draft of A boat on the Erie Canal (orlgl'
naly forty tuns, if We mistake not) had risen
in ls44 to sixty -four tuns, it was in 1852 ninety
tuns. and will open next spring at owe Assdred
and fw,nty tuns, and may very soon be IN
creased to one hundred and fifty. That is to
say-the same power and labor required in
ls44 to transport $50 barrels of Flour from
Buffalo to Albany will next spring suffice tor
2.4OO barrels, and very soon for 5000 barrels
all the effect of the Enlargement-yes, Sir,
of the More Speedy Enlargement For the
! Governors calculations as to how fast we
might have gone on without borrowing are
| based on the cool assumption that zee saosfd
hare collected the tsH amownt Of tolls zee hare
actually reeeired-an assumption which no man
can considerably and honestly maintain We
have increased our tolls rapidly and immense
/ " by rapidly increasing the capacity Oh our
Canals. and could not have done it otherwise.
Ii is most fallacous for the Governor to say
a. he virtually does, . II We had not borrowed
in Is39-40--4l to press on the work, we might
have done that same work in lS5O-l-2 with
tie increased proceeds of the intervening
years which we have been obliged to pay out
.as interest on the loans aforesad'-ior the
ready and true answer is No, Sir five had
not thus borrowed. and thereby early enlarged
the capacity of our Canals We should hare had
no such increase Of proceeds to dispose OF In
any way The More Speedy Enlargement
unfinished as it is, has saved to our Canals
Millions on Millions of transportation which
/ must else have been driven into other chan
nels
/ The Governor says the actual cost Of CON-
pleting our Canals under the act Of 1851 and
the contracts of last winter, would not have
been Eight Millions, as hitherto estimated but
Ten to Thirteen Millions. Well: call it
Twelve Millions He also states that the Erie
Canal, thus completed, would admit of boats
carrying 2i0 tuns instead of the original 40
tuns, the o. tuns Of lSi4, or the 90 tuns OF last
State, who pretends to be friend Of the Ca
nails, who would not be glad that our Canal Debt
were this day Twelve Millions greater, with our
Canals all completed, aud the boats getting
ready to start next spring carrying 2iO tuns
each, or 2,4OO barrels of Flour instead of 400
in 1880, GAO in 1874, or 900 in 1882 Where
is that man We feel sure that if such man
could be found his name would not be Horatio
Seymour, however political necessity may con-
strain that gentleman TO talk in a part Of his
Message.
/ The Governor says the Legislature did
wrong in 1851 in taking the tolls of certain
Railroads competing with the Canals. $50
ire think Then why does he not recommend
their restoration They were taken of on
/ The understanding that the Canals were forth
with to be enlarged but, since that consider
] 10 fatlaJ lat hau than, ha.L t-Ruf
it is easier with many to find fault than to APP
ply remedies.
If Gov. Seymour had house half built, a
beg half drained, we are sure he would never
think of letting it remain so until the rents
therce accruing would complete the work.
Yet he eulogizes the Political combination
which eDgrafted this policy on our State Con-
stitution as founded in wisdom and in no re-
spect hostile to the early completion of the
Canals We say that, proposing to do two
thines-l. Pay the State Debt; and 2. Com.
plete the Canals-one Of these should have
been first undertaken aud completed; then
the other To run them on side BY side
paying so much each year on the Debt and
deyoting the residue of the Canal Resources to
the Canal Enlargement--wa the hight o.
absurdity. 1t neither gets the State soon out
of debt nor promptly enlargcs the Canal. II
was compromise between radically hostile
convictions for the mutual possession of power
The Governors propositions are exceeding
ly indefinite We gather from his laDguag,
that he viii oppose any change in the Consti
tuition, and any creation Of new resources Col
TIE Canal Enlargement except by Tax Ny
bis recommendation of return to she MI
Tax shows plainly that he means to raise
Canal Revenue from that source.
Well: We shall pay our small share Of i
promptly but it will operate very unequall