New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-30

smcthed. tcwSd tosi bsnkfuPcy, sufh q w1WW-
Such, M Presdens. beng the naie~A ecsdssoS
present and prospective. Of your fsiio~ citizens ~
may now, for q moment, turn 70 their usos oee.
CONNIE pc DC with the cer'rsl government and 10
cspal we find an smount Il ofhsal cosrupsics NJ
exceeded in the world outside ii the Turkish EmpiD
the affair OF the Union for the past few years hsv
M been sdn nisfered with single eye 10 the pro-
OF cscia persons and their friends and not with retcs
ehce the Interests OF the people. Passing thepce
10 town city and county adm init atoms, we tnd
continually growing power. the part Of the centres
eo'ehmes, to conirol al direct their elections wHA
'o,IrsIondeh grOwth If fraud and PceulA,ios
turning nov 20 the commercial capital. hnd W
sdGshon thas decnbed IN journal of the day: aaA
uuisNorao'e as tLe description none ~ think. csn
deuv It's truth:
There II no town in Christendom where in proper
h tothe psptEil"n AZ c,isl amcnt oi crime 70 anna
ally muItted. Wedo Sul.uch bcyond the letter u
the fact when say ths, ms-ler /: thin. here of
daily occurrence. NhIano.s ana dastarily outrsgcs
in the open light Of day. The city is the hesiauas-
tiers Of the rogues thieves and pckpockets that are
scattered Throughout, the county, and is the main
thea,er OF their operations. Nowhere else in this
country does vice an, isea openly and iii such
mpuniiy. Nowhere Is much coentenance gives 70
rowdy gangs, that keep quiet people in terror. No
WHERE have things gone on vm bad TO worse 20 rap
idly, until il is at length apparent that unles sras
speedy change comes over the police management n
New-fork, and the administration II the criminal
courts state ri anarchy Will ensue, honest eisisens
will be driven to organize, and take the law IN their
own hands
Passing outward from New.Ycrk, W. find rapid
growth Of rowd,ism and intemperancc. with corcs-
ponding de line in the security at person and OF POp-
erty-,rsuds, pccuations, seductiors, murders, aud
crimes IT every kind increasing with such rapidly
as fairly 10 warrant the assertion in recent Souhesw
journal that 1.-The United States are fest becoming
= very stencil in the nostriis of mankind
Such Mr.. President is the material and moral Con-
diiion OF the people TO the administration OF WHOSE
10 call "A N
find its parallel you will be he'd most naturally 20 lo&
to the closing years of the frce,rade period. which
preceded the passage Of the protective tariff IT 1854
eekng its opp, site you will be led, rs naturally. 70
look 10 the closing years of the protective periods, es
tablished BY the tariffs of ISIS and lSf2-years -
which the country presented to view picture o.
peaceful and quiet progress, snch as the world hsd.
heretofore, never seen.
The tendency ovard tie establishment OF soaa6
morality Mr. President in every country Of the world.
has been in the direct ratio Of the stesdiness and regu
larity of the societsry moyement-the gambling ten
deuces of the barbarc ages then tending to dissP-
pear. That principle being admitted, would ask yos
10 study the action of the central Government from
the DAY on which assumed 10 control the mouetary
movement Of the country, and satisfy yourself, ~
YOU readily may that 10 is vicious course OF actied.
and in the local Governments. We owe the
decentralization that pow exists. As member OF the
old Federal party You wil am sure, rejoice to hnd
this fact established. That you may do 50. would
beg you 10 look to the urgent recommendations
of 1895, for the establishment Of State banks,
followed by indignant denuncation of both banks and
notes. and BY the establishment 1T department In the
national treasury for the supervision Of local banks,
from which il issued, annually enormous mass OF
figures arranged with the intent TO deceive their read
ers into the belief that those who place confidence in
banks will be defraudcd. Look next 90 the specula-
items in public lands. which Arrays t'or me sdorfion
~ pocy tending fOrGrd the closing 81 our factories
and furnaces and thus enable gamblers and specuia-
tors accumulate fortunes at the expense of the poor
emigrans who driven from the older States Look.
again. to the changes in the value OF prop
erty ~ every description resulting from the three sns
pensions in time of peace, that have followed the cco-
iralzaton 1T the monetary power IN The hands o the
Federal Executive Look then othe facts thai free.
Trade" the control Of the Central Government over
the currency, aud the doctrine that TO the yctors be-
long the spos had their origin at the reif-rame Pc
rod. Further, ioot To the facts that an al roIorew
system Offering, il dooa, bounty upon the perpe-
fation OF fiaud drives the honest merchant from tho
business of Importation. Look, | pray you, 10 the
great fact that since the day which the centralse
system war adopted the expenditures OF the 0overS-
mcnt have been gUfRtnJSed, and that nearly cOty
millions of dollars pr anBum now, Mt every cleo:
tion put up TO the highest bidder. Look at the cnor~
mour changes in the prices of all staples consc-
quent upon that exclusive dependence upon foreign
markets which Il IL the object If the centralized syn
tenn to establish. Look at the gambling spirit, and
the reckeSneSs thereby engendered and you will be
at no loss accoun, for the decentralization .ha. IL In
progress-a decentralization whose growth Ina. IN the
asst few year,, been more rapid than that Of any
country recorded in the history OF the world. Having
studied these things Mr.. President, you will think,
be disposed to agree with me IN opinion, that While the
central Government shall continue to pursue a course
that does in effect offer bounties for the preparation
Of frauds and lanes there be hope OF change,
and that unless there be change the day must speed
iy arrive when the people. in their distress will BIS
found calling upon Providence in IL mercy. 10 send
them dictator and thus relieve them from the OPP
precision Of thai worst OF oil despotisms centrssed
democracy.
Hoping, Mr.. President that under reforms that 700
may institute the State authorities may become rein
stated in the possession Of the powers Of which they
have been deprived and that we may thus he ena-
BLEED 10 retrieve ourreputati0n,
IremsD, very respectfully your obd'i servant
HENRY &. CAREY.
Phl1dcLuhin DecenlbcI 2aih. 1857