New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-16

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recreant into fidelity to bis own pledges and to
tho expectations tho people entertained when
their votes were cast. 1t 10 true that there 10 Q
vital difference between the sincere conviction
and manly resolve of the Chief Magistrate, and
the kypocrit cil pretensions, which manyof them
adopted merely as . means OF eeladiug the friends
of Prohibition and getting themselves elected;
but they will do well to bear in mind that the
People are not to be traed with in this matter,
and that in the reckoning they will shortly hold,
every traitor may count on rigid and mercileu
justice.
The NJ T. Times of yesterday clearly indicates
the course which the sham supporters OF Prohi-
bltion desire to have the Senate pursue. Ac-
cording to that journal, the bill! passed BY the
Assembly being Just such q one - tried and
earnest Temperance men desire, it does not
comport with Senatorial independence to pass it
in that form, and therefore it must be emascu-
lated. The Senate is not, We are told, to be re-
garded as an instrument for registering the
DEGREES Of an outside and irresponsible body; and
therefore they will strike out of the bill "sowe
provisions which, in their judgment, will only
"make the Law obnoxious to the com non sense
"of the community, array against it the senti-
"nent of the conservative and jxdieioxs friends Of
"Ttmpraaes, and thus deprive it Of that
strong hold upon public confidence and
favor which alone can make it efficient
and permanent" Who these conservative and
judicious temperance men are, is not precisely
stated but the inference is natural that they
comprise the large and respectable class Of
liquor. dealers, and the virtuous politicians who
became temperance men for electioneering pur-
poses, and who still desire to revel in the luxury
of good or bad liquor at Legislative junketings,
and ether private and public entertainments
Nor does our contemporary inform the world what
are the provi.fens which must be stricken from the
ferred to BY Gov. Clark, az the search, seizure,
and destruction MISREPRESENTATION which, we
take leave TO add, Prohibitory Law must be a
nullty. This is, of course, what The N. Y
Times, with the conservative and judicious
friends of temperance, desires to have the bill
made. Very possibly they may succeed In carry
ing their purpose with the present Senate, but
we warn them that they will thus only respite the
liquor traffic for single year. The majority Of
the people are bent upon complete, downright,
Incorporating Prohibition. They have won
that battle twice against 1.-The conservative
"and judiciOus friends of temperance, such as
Gov. Seymour and The N. Y. Times. They
can win it third time if necessary; but whether
such necessity will much profit the false friends
whose treschery imposes it upon them, is ques-
ton whose solution will appear in due season.
One of the results anticipated by the Lieuten-
ant Governor in this article of his journal, Is
likely to follow the passage of the emasculated
bill, is that 1.-The Temperance question will cease
"to be an element of political discord, and to
" furnish political capital for ambitious aspi-
Grants" Considering that this proceeds from
person who figured before the Temperance Con-
veDtion at Auburn in search Of political CAPT
"tal for an ambitious asprant," it is at once sub
timely mpudept and sublimely laushabe: