New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-12

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Ore of the most interesting subjec.s 10 wa,ss
Gov. Gardner elludes, is the establishment, Of tia
Industrial School for Girls OF Lancaster. This svn
opened on the 9Th Of August 1856 sad is pc
rourced to be "tbs FIST Of It's Kind 10 America"
II contains at preeeht forty giri', al Of WHOM
"wouh 10 ali human probability Nave been rsinsd.
chad not the State ntcrposei its parental pTotec
"ton." II should be understood that those wao
are sent 10 the Lancaster School are not hardened
criminals idiots, or nvalds, bot those whose I'M
formed hsbi's, intellectual activity and physical
"powers will enable them TO resp tue greatest ben
sefts and blessings from its Influences" IL is
intims,ed that the three edi6ces already erected
will soon be insufficient to accommodate those who
should be sent to the school. The Governor gives
no details of the discipline Of the institution, but
we know enough Of the plsn, and q the pains
which have been bestowed upon il By some Of the
best of Massachusetts, men and women, TO await
the result of the experiment with much interest
We have thus condensed few facts Of general
interest from Gov. Gardners Message. We have
taken his Excelency's statements Tor truth, and IN
doing 80 we trust that we are not the victims OF IN
overweenipg credulity. OF that part Of the Me-.
sage in which are propounded Mr.. Henry J. Gard
ner's social and political theories we do not care 10
say much, and what We must say will not be CON-
plmentary. He uses good words" aud sosquPe-
dslisn phrases, but careful examination does not
disclose any profound thought In fact, the Gov
ernor is quite as much in love with the dark lantern
as he was when discovered by the light OF it, in his
counting room just about two years ago He drops
q briDy and edifyDg tear over the defeat Of Ere
mont, and then waxing exceedingly indignant, he
calls attention to the fact that the defeat aforesaid
must be attributed to parcel of losel lrishmea and
scoundrel Germans. Having thus hoisted himself
upon his hobby horse, the Governor goes ahead
with great smoothuess and velocity. His exceed
ipgy clear views of the character Of European pop
ulations may be obtained from the following zen.
fences, which We also present as specimen prick
Of the Governors rich and royal style; $40 the
German student. cha6ng under the tyranny.
"snd to the German peasant struggling
for livelihood under the taxation and oppression
" of the petty dynastes Of the fatherland; to the
Iri,h repeater, enthusiastic for the regeneration
of his country, and to the Irish laborer striving
" for the means TO flee from his impoverished
" island to the revolutionist, dazzled with the
" hopes of q continental republic and natioual
4" liberty; and TO the downtrodden OF all lands, the
" word Democracy has magical AID irresistible
" fascination To the philosopher and the serf It
bears the same wild and alluring attraction. 1t
d" word having there mighty meaning IL In
'Scarpates the utopian dreams of the political via
" onary C); the ambition of the struggling and IN
experienced youth; the aspirations OF the reyoli-
" tioBist the desires of the mutinous soldier; tho
expectations of the tOiling serf aud the widest
" hopes Of the discOntented Of Europe
This is pretty poor stuff whether written by
Governor or by some fourth form school-boy.
Having relieved himself of this perious skimble-
skamble His Excellency declares as follows
with these prepossessions the foreigner lands
"upon our shores, and irresistiby attaches him
"self to the party bearing this name he has been
Taught to worship" Does Governor Gsrnder
expect that the foreigner" aforesaid will attach
himself irresistbly " to the Dark Lantern party
You abuse the poor mans religion you form secret
associations expressly for the purpose of cutting
bin of from the sequ sitiOn Of political rights you
ridicule his birth place and his brogue and then
you are very much sstonished, and in fact quite
hurt and greved that he does not vote with you.
but joins party which at least treats him with civ
iity. If the Democratic party In the late election
bad majority Of the Irish and Germans-it did
not by any means have alive must thank just
such politicians as Governor Gardner, Adventures
who became suddenly converted to the ungenerous
and unpbilosophical doctrines Of extreme Amer
canism," and who for their own purposes, organ.
lied crusade against those who believed our pro-
fessons and were tempted across the ocean by the
rumOr of equal political privileges. If Governor
Gardner has really at heart the interests Of Free
dom; if be be- in soul as well as in speech devoted
TO the cause Of Free Territory, Let him show him
self willing to orego personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, aud
unwilling TO distract and divide the freemen OF
by insisting upon the resurrection
of his shOrt-hved party. Let him leave that TO
Sachem Ely, TO iona Pierce and to the uospotted
Frsncis Turkey. Let him no logger insist upon
party divisions, which will forever keep cut Of the
Republican ranks thousands of honest men, whose
sole incspscity is that they first saw light 10 for
eign land.
Tie ~ y. Tizes, in commenting upon that portion