New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-03


the State even more than i. does their parents
We have read nothing Of late with deeper salts
faction than this part Of the Message. The Gov
erpor's suggestion, moreover, thst each District
shall draw school money, rot ia proportion to the
number of children residing within its limits, bu.
to that Of the children actually attending It's Pub
lie Schools, ia admirable. and It's embodiment in
an act will effect great good. But we dissent
respectfully aud most earnestly, from his plan for
quarierirg Academies and Colleges on the tax
payers, under the specious plea OF perfecting AMI
rounding on. our Educational system. II wont
do, Gov. Clark and We must hope that this pro-
Jet has been foistei upon YOU BY bad advisers.
Our Free Academy which yOu eulogizs 50
warmly. yet know so little of, is an arissoera'ic
anomaly, and the farming dhtriets. unused
to staggering under such mountains Of tax.tion
IS weigh down this City. will never endure the
extra burden you here suggest. II is not right
to tax the labor Of the boy W. 20 must work sl sum-
mer in bis fathers corn field to pay the cost Of edu
eating bis more fortunate school mate whose pa
rents can afford to spare him 20 90 through Col
leee; and you must Lot urge il. Up TO the
extent LDdt .GNdulhgcs eau IL SJvu
faith be provide for and profered to all. il will
DO to defiay their cost By taxation; Whatever
goes beyond that point should be done expressly
to provide our schools with competent tss,hers,
and every one thus educated should be required
to give a written obligation with security to
teach in common schools for stipulated term OF
years. Ii comes little hard on the taxpayers
when miss of sixteen. having just finished her
education at the State Normal school, goes home
to be promptly married and set to house keeping
without having taught single day; for though
fle bearing of children msy be as important and
Necessary as their education, ii has not yet been
found Necessary in this country to encourage it at
so heavy a cost to the public as that Of Nor
School education.
The Governors idea no, it 10 nor tie Gov
erDors-we know it is not though it has some
how been foisted into his Message of "s'imp-
" lating teachers, pupils &c, to generous II.
"vslry," and msking extra facilities of education
In academies ard colleges, the prize for which
"all may contend, is as wrong as wrong can be.
We bod Mr.. Clark radically hostile to stinu'a
ton, and trust be will not forget that our State
abolished Lotteries some twenty years ago.
On the Liquor question, the Governor is not
merely right and clesr, but strong and admirable.
Is it not worth a struggle to hear such doctrines
proclaimed from the Executive Chamber Of our
State instead of those of our late Governor in his
Rum Veto!
Our U,ury- law repeslers will derive little aid
or comfort from this Message; but the People
will approve and sustain it's doctrines respecting
Money and Interest They are not likely TO be
soon overruled at Albany
We believe the Governors proposal to prohibit
absolutely and by efficient pen .ties all contracts
TO deliver Stocks at future day Is salutary and
timely. Our Wall.st. bears" who make con-
tracts TO deliver at a future day Socks which
they do not own-ihus bet, in effect, that 1.-THE Coun
Try will be less prosperous by.and.b by than i: now
il, snd are strongly tempted to do whatever will
tend to realize their antcipations. To them,
blight, sbipwreck, war, pestilence, &c, are god
sends; to pray that harvests shall be bounteOus
and INDUSTRY we'll employed and rewarded, is TO
pray for their ruin. There ought not to be class
in sbst peryerte attitude and we hope Gov.
C,ark's suggestion on this head will prevail.
The Message is right so far as it goes with re-
spect to frauds on the Elective Franchise, but is
,pgul6sly vague with respect to remedies. What
we need is & careful Registration of Legal Voters,
TO be revised and perfected at least ten days be-
fore each Election. This is required for the
country as well as cities, since there are Election
Districts almost entirely Of one party wherein
aliens end minors of the right stripe may vote at
contested elections with impunty. Give Us an
efficient Registration
Virginia must be beaten in the suit she has
commenced against New. York for the value of
Lemons liberated slaves, (already paid for by
our citizens. ard We trust the best legal talent
may be- secured to plead our cause. Ii we fail,
New-YoIk becomes Slave State whenever any
slave holder chOoses TO make it SO.
Tie Governor is right on Internal Improve
melton the Tsrif-aDd on the repudiation OF the
Missouri Compromise-as was already known.
On the latter topic, he is temperate in STATE nent
but ,tropg in his position, and the People are
heartily NTH him.
On tie whole, this is good Message. We
have Rad three worse to one az good, and ge
.rust bis will be read carefully and generally.
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