New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-05
Tile eoYEHsoR,s message.

sd depth that makes its length seem ln0rd1ate Inc
very considerable share OF it devoted to rhetorical
Commonplace respecting National and State pros
perty our hereditary devotion the principles OF civil
and religious freedom the necessity for economy in
public Affairs the historical euinence Of IN.
dietary, the official purity and stern devotion Of our
public men, &c. is much less mischieyous than The
residue that il unfortunate that the Governor
had not completed hs performance in character, and
detained it at some celebration Of National ami
yerssry or from the platform Of some College CON-
meuseu ent. We have bad longer aud shorter Annual
Messages from the Executive Chamber ofOgr sta;e but
10 other 90 barren Of valuable suggestiopa tiil
and twaddlng in tie treatment Of the subjects wbereon
public sentiment lie divided while legislative action is
invoked, nor one eyincing trucuent spirit to-
ward one bali of the community greater readiness
TO profit by mean appeals to popular ignorance and
prejudice where party favor is thus to be secured or
party interests promoted.
We can but glance hastily at few of the salient
points Of this Message.
PROPOSITIONS looking TO the multiplication OF Offices
always have been and we presume always VIII be pop
ular so we probably waste breath in opposing the
proposed creation of State Department of School Su
perntendence separate from that of Secretary OF state
In the FIRST place this change could not fail to be felt
as most nyidiOus dsparagernent BY the gentle
man Just elected Secretary Of State, who should
at least be tried before be is condemned. and whose
Office Dominslly and practically the second
Executive post in our State-wolld be virtually
reduced 10 a cipher by the abstraction there
from of the School Department 1t is perfectly
notorious at present that the duties of New
York Secretary of State relate mainly to our
Common School System and if we do not elect See
reares fit TO discharge those duties it s not likely
that we should elect fit Superntendents after the Pro-
posed separation Of the Offices This change proposed
would certainly involve increased expenditure, end
would by diminishing the dignity and importance Of
either Office tend to give two secondrate officers
instead Of one frstrae We suspect thai the interests
combined in s favor are too strong to be successfully
resisted but we wish TO be remembered as standing
in determined hostility to the proposed separation
We are Likewise opposed to what the Governor Iii
lutcs into " establishing State Scholarships in oar
"beher institutions flearning for the purpose Of edl-
eating yo1Dg men for principals OF un.on AMI high
schools with the consequent comforting Of the al
a vantages Of the endowment upon tie mertorOGs
pupils Of the different Counties or Assembly Dis
" trcts Who will guarantee that these mertorous
young men win devote themselves to the duties Of
principals of union and high schools after the State
shall have provided them with costly education for
ttat express purpose Who does not know that the
selection Of those meritoricus young men VII be
controlled by influence and favor that the chill
dren Of men of political or social influence
viii enjoy great advantages, in securing these
scholarships over those Of the obscure aud
powcrless' We protest at the outset against
this attempt 70 extend whole State tho ope-
ration Of the yicious and sntrepubieas principles
cmtOdc' in cur Cifys Free Academy, and we lsk the
LEGISLATURE to inquire into the express nature aui
practical working Of this institution before they buckle
corresponding load upon their constituents generally
Were tie cost of dis Free Academy expended in Sci
eutfc Lectures Apparatus, Cab!nets and Libraries %
which al Tie youth OF City without discrimination
as 10 capacity or sex. were allowed free access, tJ
bercfts would be ten times greater and It's aristocrac
incidents u known Let have the largest possible
provision or Popular Education but let notal be taxed
for any thing less than the benefit OF al.
Wehearty concur in oil that the Governor suggests
in favor of liberal appropriations for the education anl
care of the Imbocile Luna.ic, Deaf Dumb anil Blind.
These by reason Of their sal inirmties are Legitimate
objects Of public charity and should be treste accord
incy but afordiug extra facilities for education -
those believed to possess than Average capacity
is following in the beaten track which leads to the OK
altaticn of the few aud the degradation Of the many
What the Governor suggests respecting Immigration
is vague, but looks the right way We trust tie Legis-
lature Will make it practical.
We wish the Governor had lifted st least corner OF
the curtain which hrouds the management OF our State
Prisons He gives us the number OF their inmates and
hints that their earnings Or rather, that portion thereof
which gets into The States cofers have fallen OF by
reason Of Sickness; lie even utimates hops that the
Clinton Prison viii DC less burdensOme in the future
than il has been in the past but no statement Of the
actual expenses and earnings OF our State Prisons Tor
tie past year is permitted TO escape him. There y.
something under that white heap" which will have -
come out; and il is most unfortunate that the People
did 70. last fall choose Prison Inspector capable Of
thoroughly exposing it.
Tie Governor hints that our present system OF Prison
Discipline is very defective but does not say wherein
For give the Legislature any clue TO the proper cor
receive But he broadly intiIates that our present
Prison Offcets have not those mental and moral
qualities Of the highest order which their duties
demand that they are poorly paid and that the treat
ueut of their ohceEas the spells Of victory, every
change Of source OF enormous
evils Our charitable institutions, he urges, are free
from this evil and are far better managed in eonse
Quence But why should not the Governor rise fox
once 10 the comprehension OF principle and recognize
the truth that all merely executive subordinate posts
in the public service should be rescued from the de-
sirucye influences OF party spirit aud partisan preju
3iees THAT il IL the svslem of political rewards and