New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-04


fable concessions b! demagogues to me 'H'i0A
loe,I,y. but openly insist merely tha' 'Aese W !
sh,u be- constructed only so fast as tAe sarP,,S
cs,sl revenues shall defrsy the entire COST ~
o,;ei,al conviction and action, Governor 's'
,,our belongs to tie former OF these scH0'S
~ tie necessities Of position aud tae prohP'"e'' y
,,ohiti0u 10 has been Inclined for the las' earee
20 sle with the latter; At the last session. DC
from that sand, and now he appears swinging a-u
.vrq from one side 10 the other as the oree~e
b;n on this quarter or that lie eulogHes our O'H-
o,nsnditures prior to 1888 IS moderate udclous "H'
.cr.rcsl when il is notorious that the NJ houHAH'
and WricIts Of that day denounced them as eof'uP'
and ruipou,ly prodga stgmatizng them as measures
. TO- .5vareiue personal Interests under the cover OIL
1,,.,rsI IMPROVEMENT as Gov. Seymour now denies
70 oraves of al lis great predecessors who warm!
,rd heartily commended the Protective Policy
ard he dwells on the facts that great Canal wdened
lronch hundred cities and villages, costs more than
l;,tle Canal constructed through long ssreteh oil
primitive forest or cheap tllage and that the Enare
ueut and its eoateras have already cost sSoVOJ'VVo
ard are not yet completed, as If be were not aware
that bis political coufederaes made the deiusve es'
mates under which the Enlargement, &c' were under
taken next made most of the Contracts which sweiied
tte actual cost to treble their official estimates ana
tLen raised hue and cry of State Bankruptcy, after
the State had wrested herself from their hands, when
enabled them to regain power and stop the Public
Work.-but for which they ,eoHid have been COM
pleted loug ago.
But saws the Governor, if we had never undertaken
the more speedy enlargement (which Gov Marcy
and Democratic Senate sanctioned in 1881 we should
have completed tie canals by this time for the sur
Mus tolls would have suiced ha We never borrowed
and so had no interest to pay The moustrOus fallscy
of this aveiment clOaked by quiet assumption that
the canal tolls wsuld have been ample, had no mopey
since 1885 been borrowed and expended on the canals
as they actually have been, when in fact the in
creased capacity of those canals, and the cOnse
quent cLeapDg of transportation thereon. which have
been achieved through these very laws of l5342 that
the Governor condemns, have alone sweled the earn
ings to the amounts actually received. The moneys
borrowed and expended under Gov Seward have added
at least Half Million Dollars per annum to the tolls
collected since aud Gov. Seymour takes the very
sums thus realized as the basis OF his demonstration
that we need not and should have borroweha all,
an our work would have been further advanced this
day If We had hot
] After having GouDdered through a column of such
arid metic and logic the Governor stulthes himself by
declaring IN favor of the borrowing policy as embodied
in the Constitutional Amendment originated at the last
Session That's say he ayos return to that precise
/ Speedy Enlargement policy of Gov Seward which he
has spent bis strength in dscredtng and TO return to
which il is found necessary to set aside that very anti
/ borrowing restriction which the Herkmer School
/ fosted into our New Constitution-wnlcn they have
! all along declared the Peoples main Indictment to re-
forming tie Constitution at all But in planting him
sell upon the platform of Gov. Seward Gov Seymour
| deems it necessary TO belabor that Of Gov Hunt
which, regarding the Herkimer clog as in
yeterate attempted 10 do what was needfu
in spite Of il. We quite agree with Gov. Seymour
that it il far better to have it out Of the way but it
by no means follows that Gov. Hunts plan was not
judicous under the circumstances. True. was
crushed by pOliticoudical ihtrgue but had it
been pressed, we should probably have had no Const
tutioral Amendment, and never have had Gov. Sey
mour back again, arguing, even part of the time on
tie side of More Speedy Enlargement by of
borrowed money.
We glad to find the Governor awake to the
fact iLst intempersnce is justly regarded fruit
iul source Of misery destution and crime "a fact
Of which he seemed entirely oblivous when his former
Message was written. He sagely suggests that our
present statutes with respect TO licenses have not
been strdy enforced in our large commercial towns
snd cities" That's fact, Governor and one reason
is that when the Courts have sentenced persistent,
wu iOatOrs of those statutes to pay the penalty Of
their misdemeanors, you have stepped in and
let them of. We are glad to perceive that
you lave learned that deleteriOus drugs
are used in the manufacture of Intoxicating Liquors,
and that these producing most "perncious effects"
tie mbbers Of such liquids but did you hear
that Alcohol itsel-the very basis of all these Liquors
is "deleterious drug" and itself produces those
"peruicious effects You deplOre If Legislative ac
tion against oLr deleteriOus drugs is desirable
why not against tbs If not is the reason therefor
be sought in the nature of the or in the appe
tite OF the logicianl
Finally the Governor informs us that the Country
ard has been divided into two great parties whose
Shbboleth is strict or loose construction of the Fed
era Constitution, and that the party of Jefferson aud
Jackson is that OF strict construction which has gene
rally and happily prevailed Nov the truth is that the
most momentous and comprehensive stretch of Federal
power ever made was that by which Mr. Jefferson ac
CURED Louisiana not only without authority but he
frankly ADMITTEDLY in utter defiance OF the Con /
stitutiop. Nh Jefferson, too, among the ear
Hest advocates both Of Internal Improvement and
Protection to Home In lustry, suggesting amend
mert Of the Constitution, if needed, 10 render them
more efficient; while Gen Jackson stretched Federal !
authority to the utmost in his Proclamation against
South Carolina, bis Removal of the deposits and in
his ardent championship of the Annexation Of Texas