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

of ambition be had oeen inehned i0i e"I'o 49,
70 side with TIE latter at the last session ne reeedei
from that stand and be appears swinging and see
saving from Que side to the other as the breeze sAe
him OF this quarter that He eulosizes our Canal
expenditures prior to 1885 as moderate jadieious aud
economical when il is notorious that the d. hOHmsns
and Wrights OF that day denounced them as corrupt
and runOuy prOdigal stgmatizing them as measures
for advancing personal interests under the cover oil
Internal Improvement as Gov. Seymour now dehles
the graves of all bis great predecessors who warmly
and heartily commended the Protective Policy
and he dges on the facts that great Canal, widenei
through hundred cities aud villages costs more than
little Canal constructed through long stretch OF
primitive forest or cheap age, and that tho Enlarge
ment ana it's colaterals have already cost S5jOOO,0O
ard are not yet completed as ii he were not aware
that Lis political ccnfederates made the deusve eSt
mates under which the Enlargement &c., were under
taken next made most Of the Contracts which swelled
the actual cost to treble their official estimates, and
then raised hue and cry of State Bankruptcy after
the State had wreted herself from their hands, which
enabled them to regain power and stop the Public
Wo1k.,-but for which they rOHd have been COM
pleted lOrg ago
But saws the Governor. il had never undert4ke ken
the more speedy Enlargement" (Which Gov. Marcy
and Democratic Senate sanctioned in 1885, we should
have completed the Canals by this time for the sur
plus Tolls would have suiced ha never borrowed
and so had no interest pay. The monstrous fallacy
of this ayerment is elOAsed by quiet assumption that
the Canal Tolls would have been ample had money
since 1885 been borrowed and expended the Canals
rs they actually have been, when in fact the in
creased capacity of those Canals, aud the cOnse-
Il. tIhi
been achieved through those very laws of 53349 that
tie Governor condemns have alone swelled the earn
ipgs 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 and now Gov. Seymour takes the very
sums thus realized as the basis of his demonstration
that we need not and should not have borrowed at all,
and our Works would have been further advanced this
day five had not
After having houndered through column of such
arithmetic and logic the Governor stuthes himself by
declaring in favor of the borrowing policy as embodied
in the Constitutional Amendment Orignatedat thelast
Session That Say he favors return to that precise
Speedy Enlargement policy of Gov Seward which he
has spent bis strength in dIseredng and to return to
which it is found necessary to set aside that very anti
borrowing restriction which the Herkimer School
! fosted into our New COnstitutOn-which they have
ell along declared the Peoples main Indictment TO re-
forming the Constitution at all But in planting him
selfupon the platform ofGoy. Seward Gov Seymour
deems il necessary to belabOr that of Gov. Hunt
which, regarding tie Herkimer clog as in
veterate attempted to 10 what needful
in spite of il. We quite agree with Gov. Seymour
that il is tar better to have it out of the way but ii
by no means follows that Gov Hunts plan was not
judicous under the circumstances True, It was
crushed by pOlitico intrigue but had it never
been pressed we should probably have had no Const-
iutiOnal amendment, and never have had Gov. Sey-
mour back again, arguing, part Of the time, on
the side of d More Speedy Enlargement by means OF
borrowed money
We are glad TO find the Governor awake to the
fact that Intemperance ." is justly regarded fruit
ful source Of misery desttuton and crime "a fact
Of which he seemed entirely oblious when his former
Message was written. lie sagey suggests that our
present statutes, with respect TO licenses, have not
teon siTioiy enforced in our large commercial towns
and cities" That's fact, Governor aud one reason
is that when the Courts have sentenced persistent
wu yioatOrs of those statutes to pay the penalty Of
their msdemeanOrs, tOH have stepped IN and
LET them off, We are glad to perceive that
you have learned that deleterOus drugs
are used in the manufacture Of Intoxicating Liquors
and that these producing most pernciOus effects
on the mbibers of such liquids but did you never hear
that alcohol hse-he very basis of all these Liquors
ia a deleteriOus drug" and itself produces those
"perncious effects" you deplore IfLegislative ac-
ton against other deleterious drugs is desirable
why rot against this If not is the reason therefor
to be sought in the nature OF the case in the appe
tite OF the lOgician
Finally, the GOvernorinOrms us that the Country Is
and ever has been divided into two great parties whose
shbboleth is strict or loose construction of the Fed
era Constituton and that the party of Jefferson and
Jackson is that Of strict construction which has gene
rally and happily prevailed Now the truths that the
most momenOUs and comprehensive stretch Of Federal
power ever made was that by which Mr. Jefferson
qured Louisiana not only without authority but las be
frankly ADMITTEDLY in utter defiance Of the Con-
stutou Mr.. jefferson, too, among the
Hest advocates both Of Internal Improvement and
Protection to Home Industry, suggesting amend
nent 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 his Removal OF the Deposits, and in
his ardent championship of the Annexation of Texas,
which looked for authority TO the purchase OF Loui-
sana. svowed by its author 10 be unconstitutional.
But how could We expect the Governor to be true to
tie COuntry's antecedents, when with regard to our
Canal Policy he is go garingly false to bis own
The above article appeared part Of edition yesterday
uoTninf and though endesVor shat o.
oar Tbsrbers wtO received ii then shall fad il in th.r