The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-09
AFFAIRS At the STATE CAPITAL.
Shakespeare and the Xnow Nothings in
the Assembly.
Progress Of the Liquor Bill.
BILL TO PREVENT ILLEGAL VOTING IN NEW YORK,
DC. &c. 80.


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Senate.
ALBANY, Feb. 8, 1866.
BILLS RKroRrxD.
BY Mr.. sPUscER-T0 restrain banks from acting as
savings institutions.
By M. MUsBoS-To enable the Brooklyn industrial
schools TO participate in the school fund.
Mr.. BROOKS presented y memorial from .hs city au-
thorities of New York for q grant of land at piers Nos.
20 and "a North river.
Mr.. BISHOP introduced a bill for o loan for the enlarge
msnt of the Erie Canal, tue blu authorizing 81, 265, coo
to be borrowed for carrying out the law Of 1854. 1t was
taken up in COMMITTEES, passed, and ordered to a third
reading.
Mr.. srxscKR gave notice Of . bill taxing life insurance
companies.
TIE resolution authorizing the Attorney. General to de.
fead tho interests OF the State in regard to the Lemon
slave case, came up in Its regulur order.
Mr.. Brooks continued his remarks, commenced yester-
the Senator from the Twenty.sixth, (Mr. Dickinson,) by
quoting from the Albany Erening Journal, to prove that
fri msss' q NJ Ms' se Ss,S = IN A orSsf to N de asss' t s' s Up Iy 'e .,
Gen. Taylor. he would charge, also, that the meeting
was concocted in the Journal oHice-and that the chief
sdttor OF that paper drew up u series of resolutions to
be proposed to that meeting, copies Of which were dis.
tributed to several Of tho cidxsns of Mbany-that that
editor, on . sabbath day, went to Troy for the purpose
Of getting up q meeting with the sans object.
Mr.. DIoKISsoN-Does the senator know that Willard
Fillmore approved these resolutions?
Mr.. BRooKs-No, sir, not the resolutions which have
been alluded to. Under these cireumsrances tnen. il
would mot be supposed that the s.silver greys3 had any
thing to do with thar meeting, as the Senator from the
Twenty. sixth had charged; for although that party may
be . sman one, YET It was very choice Of its company,
therein. No doubt he would not wish to associate with
with the member: Of that party, and he (Mr. b.
common school question, arguing that the utility of
free schools was first discovered by the Pilgrim Fathers,
~asctcut, and throughout the Eastern States. After
time our own State adopted the principle, and finally we
denied that the school Law Of New York originated a close
corporation. There was nothing Of such a nature con-
S SsS.sa ,bsrs it s6,, NOR Nv would nSsa any {hs citizen Hnas Of our ar state ssss
Do Witt Clinton and men Of his stamp stood at the head
Of that system. But after q while, the Catholic question,
ing that children Of all creeds, Catholic as we'll as Pro-
~testant, were invited to come In and participate in the
dissemination Of kn2wledge which the people were pay.
ing for. Bishop Hughes asked that q portion Of the
school fund be given TO the Catholic Church that she
might establish schools for the education Of children
protesting her creed. The Bishop and many leading
Catholics urged as q reason for such a discrimination
their religion, and this to the exclusion OF Catholics.
Yet this was not so. They also argued that thsir chill
dren were compelled to read books whose teachings
were antagonistic to Catholicism. One book thus cha
racterizsd, was named, and that book was taken out
Of those schools, for no other purpose than to please
calls tLose schools q close corporation. Next, the objec-
ton to Catholic children being taught in the common
R6is was read in those schools. Well, that bible, Il was
true, was not Of the Catholic version, but he, Tor one,
WOulu muCn raLn6rh nave the D0uay blDlo rehu In II our
common schools than no Bible at all. The controversy,
after a while, was removed from New York city TO
iatsnsss to The asSsts had in the senate chamber on the
subject. The heads Of the New York common schools
were here to represent their interests, and many promi-
nent Catholic citizens were here, 100, to present their
eide. Governor Seward then occupied the gubernatoriAl
chair, and i Vas b him that the pure indie . Hiram N
cause he stood opposed TO Bishop Hughes position on
the school ~question. He would have all children edu-
rated at the public expsnse-not only those Of American
birth, but ali on American soil, whether they he English,
terman, Irish or Scotch.
MI. DioKSsoN.-Lttie niger children, too.
Mr.. BaooKs.-Aye, negro children too, He thanked
the Senator for that idea, for it put Q thought in hts
bead which otherwise might have slipped his attention.
Oh, the se;f -disinterestedness of those individuals around
this circle who pretend to be the only friends Of freedom.
he would point those Senator'S ga9 @. love t 70 IRE ,, on
clause In our own constitution which prohibits the ex-
unless possessed of $3.50 worth OF real estate. What q
comment on the course OF tdese Senatorial
Mr.. DroKrsoN.-was the Senator aware that the Hon.
William II. Seward was opposed TO the property qualih-
cation clause' And viii that Senator vote for expunging
shat clauses
enough TO answer that question when we are required
TO act Oh the SUBJECT, He did not think VIM. II. Seward
s]gdas %Iscsriot; lie believed there we're a great many
men 10 this country worse than him. He was not per
sonalIy opposed to that gentleman. It was his princi-
PIES that met bis opposition. He next alluded to the
country, which seeks to upset ali our good principles OF
government-to do away with tie due observance Of the
led. representatiye body, the members Of which to be re-
allied at the option Of the people, and the constitution
this spirit which called loudly for our attention, and
which must be put down; lie could honor and love the
memory Of such men as MOnssop.ry and ss onss,,,odd u
IL, the American move rent bad anything to do.
1t was rather with those thousands who coms to our
shores annually, thoroughly imbued with red republic
anissn, and sought by clubbing together almost as soon
as their arrival, to upturn all our wen founded institu.
would sy that he did no. believe our govsrsnsnt wen
Represented at Madrid and the Hague: This country
s sSss a. SSs be Su ,spssssnssa y A ms : ca i %sss be- s,f1 ruled Sni BY
Americans was the principle on which he stood. After
defining HI. position cstaS |, on h the - siay' ,ym Sus ssIrt1 s Sy rs' a .,,
on a tomb stone in a church yard at Concord
Man wills us slaves;
God wills rs free;
will as Sod wills;
Gods will be done.
Mr.. q. concluded his remarks, and,
Mr.. D,oxrNsoS took the Aoor. He assume. that in
the Ontario and Livingston districs, Enough 1t was
claimed that "sam, had succeeded there, yet to day II
the question was between VIM. II Seward and any other
man in this State, Mr.. Seward could carry that district.
t'sam" was dead now; he was completely killed on the
thu position assumed by the Senator from the 9th. He
said that Wm. n. Seward secretly opposed the elecuon
of Henry Clay 20 the Presidency. Has the Senator any
proof OF thAti He has given Ms none. And yet II was a
very bold assertion.
MI. DicsIssos doubted not that many men had soush.
10 poison the mind Of Henry Clay towards Mr.. Seward.
ps.vs "a ,sas Mr. r. Clay nSp A .ss' told Mr. 4 R ssw nGs,'s yssr. S Satss
his death, that no man could be more wronged, In senti.
mept, than he had vronged Mr.. Seward; and he acknow-
IeSged that he had been misinformed entirely, which
led him to pursue the course he had towards Mr.. Sew
ard. Nj. D. then denied that Mr.. Seward opposed Clay
election In 1874. Many things were against him In that
campaign. The New York democracy had brought forth
New York's strong man-silas wright-to carry their
taken from the United states senate to save the party
from defeat, and there Is not q man but will admit that
to him alone was due all the praise arising from the cleo.
ton Of The democratic Ticket But, Notwithstanding
all this, the whig canvass Was going on swimming
ly-the wings had good reason to entertain the most
.--.s hno<~-1a holfowad arrniv In
Mr.. Gays second letter, the Alabama letter. wa
givsa to The public. That httsr fell like . wet blanke
on his whig partisans Of the North. II dsmpened al
thsir fond hopes, and, Of course, proportionately bright
ened the prospects Of their opponents. The wings felt