New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-22
STATE OF CAMDEN AND AMBoY.

We suggest a change in the title of our
neighborng State of New-Jersey. The State
OF Camden and Amboy" would be much
more appropriate name. Or if this were OBJ
jected to, il might be termed the State of the
Camden and AmbOy Railroad Company"
This would perhaps be Objectionable from its
length but really much more truly descrip-
tive appellatiOn. The State is in the hands Of
the Company, belongs to the Company, and has
got to be very bad State, by being in very
bad company.
A committee Ofthe Legislature of the State
reported on Friday last, that bill which had
already passed the House could not become a
law, "riihout the consent Of the Camden and
AmJoy Company" Now this was coming TO
the point 1t lays the real state of things in
the New-Jersey Legislature wide open before
the world and what is said in one case can be
said in all No bill can pass the New-Jersey
Legislature without the consent of the Cam
den and AmbOy Company" More than this.
No Senator can be chosen without the con-
sent of the Camden and Amboy Company
No Governor can be elected without the
consent Of the Camden and Amboy Company
No Representative in Congress can be chosen
without the consent Of the Camden and Am
boy Company. But we need not enumerste
special acts. VIII anybody tell US of any po-
litlcal act that can now be performed among
A ..l ~. az
the Camden and Amboy Company" Isl not
the State Of the " Camden and Amboy Compa-
ny " to all intents and purposes Why not,
then, call it the State of the Camden and
Amboy Company ~ Or for shOrtness, the
Estate Of Camden and AmbOyl' AT any rate,
We insist upon the prOpriety Of the Senators re-
Gently elected by the Legislature, being
known and addressed as the Senators from the
Camden and Amboy Company" To this
there can certainly be no objection Are they
not the Senators Of that " Company" elected
by that " Company, responsible to that Com.
pany, created by them aud for their own use and
behoofl They are nothing else" but Sena-
tors of the Camden and Amboy Company"
And so long as they remain in Congress, they
too, everybody knows, will do nothing without
the consent Of the Camden and Amboy Compa-
nv"
We copy the following paragraph from The
Neudrk Mercury Of yesterday morning, which
shows the special attention which this paternal
Company" deyotes TO the details of the Lee
gislative proceedings Of the State now under
ats charge,
1T Is well known in Trenton, tha, on the morning
AFTER the passage OF the Air Line Railroad bill two mem.
hers Of the House OF Assembly VIZ Messrs Abbott aud
Lakewood called upon by person identhed with
the monopoly, and aproposton made 10 them in.
tended to er votes In favor Of the recOnslera
ton Of the vote by which the bill passed The offer
was that they should recsies free passes ore The rocd 81
s Joint Companies for years and thar one Of ls
May Road shiei he had PreyiOssiy applied FIR. How lar
such means were extended we do not know: but the
simple fact that the offer directly made 70 Two mem
brs snd we grsted 10 say, rejected by them fur
ushes indspstable evidence VI the wholesale corrup.
ton which this interruptions political atom which
now rules State With rod OF IRON 10 resortnz 20
Il order 10 perpe.aate lts power"