The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-19

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A. o PI4AGG, Comptroller.
Tho Communication referred to the Committee on
the Whole.
EXTENSION or ALBANY STREET Tmou0H TRINITY CHURCH
The majority and minority reports Of the Committee
Streets in the matter Of extending Albany street ia
Broadway (made the special order Of the evenns
then taken up. The majority Of tho committee In ques
quenty reported that ct the hearings given BY them
parties interested in the matter they considered the
argument narrowed down TO these points,
/. Whether II was adarmatvely shown that the rc-
mains Of any OF patriot sres lay Wondering In the
line Of the proposed extension and II there su-
Gent reasons for undoing the acts Of former Common
Councils where improper motives had existed in
huence them In their discrimination OF this subject and
z. whether . majority OF the parties in interest
AS to the first point, while the COMMITTEES expressed
their belief that most Of those who ths posi-
ton honest in their Impressions Of its truth yet the
committee did not consider themselves doing their duty
III coipcidng ( this Is to be turning point,) unless
they also be convinced Of ts TRUTH and that by
THAI traditionary evidence As to improper motives
listing in former councils, while urged the
OF many advocating this measure standing high
in the community should be- guarantee OF honest con
vcticn OF its necessity.
Asto the second point the committee referred what
is already said upon that subject in their former report
that from the estimate made by William r. Halett Esq
hercunt. annexed IL satisfactorily appeared that arge
pr, portion in interest in favor OF the proposed
measure but i the committee erred on this point tho
snps mo Court have the power Of aordirg tho remedy
and to which tribunal the parties cxr determine.
ton to appeal should the Com- Council decide ad-
to their Wishes The cost TO the cty such ap-
peal Is urged a why the comnitec should ia
yor their view but the committee, while they do not
believe the cost would he heavy under the present
5se cannot admit this as an argument to do injustice
to any pates and their convictions upon this point
as herein stated.
The committee therefore, without changing their
views upon the subject offered for adoption the resolu-
ton attached to the former report, viz, -
That this Board do not with the Board Of Alder
men in granting the prayer OF the petitioners for the
peal OF the ordinance extending Albany stree. through
to broadway but TINT the said prayer Of petitioners be
denied.
The majority report was signed by Councilmen Frye,
Tuttie McCfave and Purdy.
The minority report signed by Councilman Wild offered
That the ordinance passed by the late Board of Alder
men, December %, 1853, and by ths Assistant Alder
men, December 20, 1858, and approved by the Mayor
December ST. 1858, authorizing the extension Of Albany
street through Trinity churchyaId to Broadway be-
and the same ia hereby repealed.
On these reports the board went into Committee Of
the Whole councilman Pnckney in the chair After the
reports had been read
Councilman villa moved tn strike ont ali after the
ory report and insert the resolution proposed ia the
minority report In moving the adoption Of this reso
luton, Mr. Wild contended, in an eloquent and
was rot required or wanted by the public, and
that it was desecraton Of the grave, repudated
aliLe by heather and BY christian 10 the course
Of his remarks Mr. Wild said:--There is religious
ycneraton for ones country that revots at outrage
upon its patriots when living and which defends their
njunctions to defend the spot where their remains are
buried Their fame rests with the world and with time
then grave with but tpot Of earth aud their lives
with but speck of eternity We tend TO prolon9 this
by that feeling Of affection and gratitude which Is
transmitted from one age to another that theaast
can point to the spot where rests the object Of
ration and gratitude that has gone before IT, And 1t Is
advantage to their heartess purpose that they shall
attempt to destroy by subtcrtuge Of argument AMI by
aud patriotic convictions. win not sisuiry aaahs
against the records Of truth and the annals Of history
that they affect TO at the impressive fact that
several hundred Revolutionary soldiers lie buried in the
very quarter of the ground through which this street
il osed to be extended There 10 Of the
venerable Mr. Norwood who testides WITH all the so.
emnty Of an OATH and the Of that
age around him, and the Gndred grave Of his cctemro-
rssies which now points to him, with which he will
himself he soon unitedwhich confirms its truth-- IL
needed greater than the bones Of these Re-
vouionary patriots Themselves There is the record Of
your faithful Recorder who has adduced
testimony to etabsh this fact But it is unnecessary
70 recapitulate testimony which has already been etab
shed, and which was so successfully and eloquenty
sustained by Mr. Cutler in his able argument before the
committee Of tho Board Of Aldermen. In truth SIR,
your petitioners after praying you to desecrate the
Of these Revolutionary patriots attempt in the
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their venerable existence. I. Is melancholy comment
upon human frailty that in its attempt to pull down
Gus fab ehcod.
Mr.. FRY, Councilman of the Forty ninth district and
chairman Of the majority Committee Streets in favor
Of the extension Of Albany street through Trinity
churchyard, made lengthy remarks support OF
the majority committee and in opposition to the muor
ty report. The committse OF which be chairman
were actuaed by feelings of virtue and not Of patriot
ism in sanctty of the grave in making their report
The matter that now came up before the Board not
new oneit had been before the public for many years
and its merits and dement's descanted upon at great
length by eminent men. In looking upcn the feasabil
~ OF the measure say that IL we lived to
be as old as Methusaeh would not see the grave.
yard desecrated. But with that the Board had
nothing to do. The committee were called upon
TO do justice to certain parties aud they fatter
He did not believe that those who opposed the measure
would in the end receive the popularity which he had
no eoub, they SO dearly courted His argument in rela
far better than patriotism. The opponents Of the
measure brought up outside issues patriotism and
tty for the dead while the projectors of the measure
on the other hand Look upon Justice far mpor.
tant than either Of the SIDE issues brought up by their
opponents In conclusion he said that as the greatest
number Of the property holders BY their silence the
subject had consented to the opening OF the thorough
fare 1t in justice to them that the demand for the
opening OF the street made. He concluded by
ing the adoption Of the report Of the committee Of which
he was the chairman.
Councilman KENNEDY said that as pailiation It was
urged in of the reports that similar acts had been
done before. He did not understand such argument
that because violations had been done they might
be done again. He spoke In strong ters against open
ing the street through Trinity churchyard and looked
upon such an act as one Of afrocious Dissertation.
Councilman NORTH in favor Of opening the street
He said IL was question between the corporation Of
Trinity Oh arch and the corporation OF New York. He
thought that the streets generally not sufficiently
wide open for the purposes of commerce. and In this
particularly the interests OF required
that the should be carried into effect He said
that The chief argument raised by those In favor Of the
minority report that the graves Of the dead should
NOT be disturbed Now, there had been no new inter
Tents during twenty-five years past. The bones OF
parties there could not be identified and there could be
no great sympathy where there was no Identification.
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