New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-08
TIE MAINE LAW IN SEw-YoRK.

THE MAINE LAW IN SEW-YoRk.
MARY Of the Wing journals Of our State ara
roy heartily exullng over the election ~ hiR"H
II CLARK ss our next Governor. We could
eIul,stion II did not see before rs
clouded and p"rtentou' farure. TIE skie' nave
an .ngry look, and no n.au can ssy what sh7u ne
the upeets of the morrow. Already ~e observe
many Of thosA who have hitherto bsssed IN the
sunshine Of Wing prosperity ana shared bou11-
hIly in the harvest of its better fortunes now
ee.ing 81 for the camp Of the kaOw-NOthlngs TO
see What cbaoce of prOyebder msy present itself
in that quarter. We expect this tendency to
sisuse it, eff until about every thing of the late
Wig party which is essentially tine serving and
vensl shall have gone fully over to the new array
whose prospect for future fe-h.pots is deemed so
fstteripg
If those who barely triumphed in the election
Of Last mouth are to make head at ell against tue
old and new sdyersari.s that encompass them
they must DO it by unimpe achable faeity TO their
obligations, their principles and their faithful
ailies. Myron H Clark is Wing; bat the
Wbigs who supported him did not aud 'ould net
elect him. lie owes his triumph to Democrats
and Free SolleIs who for Freedom aud Temper
apce's sake discarded party attachments Ia behalf
of their cherished convictions They voted for
CLARK. not because he was a Wing, though they
were fully aware OF that fact but in order that
Slavery might be cutbed iu the Federal Govern
ment, but especially ia the Federal Territories,
and that an efficient Prohbtory Liquor Law
should be enacted and enforced in our State.
viii cur new Legislature recognize and fulfill
there reasonable expectations There IL no
doubt as 20 the course of the Governor elect.
We fatter DO man, and we have very plainly set
forth our objections to the course pursued by Mr.
Clark in the late canvass. We say again that he
out ht not to have tried 70 be a Kno yNOthng and
ought to have resigned bis SenatOrshp immedi-
ately On resolving to accept tie nomination for
GOsernOr. These were grave errors Of judg-
lit ut, but not of purpose. We shall have in Mr.
Clark Governor whose every feeling, every i'm
pulse, ally him TO the cause Of Freedom, OF Tenn
peraDce, and of Morality. Un,hrmk'Dg uncom-
promising resistance TO tire Nebraska Fraud will
bave DO frmer or beartier advocate at Al Dany
,bIs winter than NJ iron H. Clark, while Liquor
Prohibition, unform and thorough, will find "a
him most unHinchiog champion.
But will the Legislature be equally straight
forward, equally reliablel We fear not. The
Assembly, fresh from the People, will probably
reflect the popular will; We do not feel sure OF
the Senate. We remember how feeble was the
resistance in that branch yet unchaDgei) to Sey-
mour's Rum Veto, and we fear the Liquor Inter
est will find means to be stronger there ia reality
than in Appearance. When such vast peculiarly
consequences depend On the casting or WITHHOLD
iDs of two or three votes, 1t is well to believe
with fear and trembling.
We do not fear that either House will fatty
refuse to pass Pfohibitory Law. That would
be too gross an outrage on public sentiment to %
attempted at THE time. But 1t will be so easy to
get up a disagreement between the tive Houses
on some iDao entail point, or 10 let some Inch pin
drop out during the progress Of the bill through
Committee, that we cannot conceal our anxiety
as to the result.
Others have bad their festivities and congratu-
lations over the issue Of our late contest. For
those whose object is attained, this is we'll; bat
we postpone our rejoicDg until We shall have seen
o striDs ent impartial. working Prohibtory
Liquor Law carried through both branches of toe
Legnlsnre. We shall not wait for Gov, Clarks
signature, nor if We did, should we have to wait
long.