New-York daily tribune., 1857-09-30


Republican party to an army about to evacuste
territory, and which thereupOn steals all it can lay
hands on Mr. Edwin CroSwell who is usually
gentleman, reported to that Convention, which
passed by unanimous acclaim, the following prepOs.
ferrous bit of Buncombe:
R,,olred That the to which political opponents
have in the State calls for the interpos
.cousy embarrassed in its Iance and the debt
ustns the have increased .evenfod within the
last years the canals once source Of pride and suence
TO the State imPosshed aud dependent upon direct taSes o
set BY hs state be. spread into the
the people inviting them to hazardous specqations
the sin sSe 81 s Siu.s and the s e & and that we
s upon the people to remedy h. state Of affairs BY establish
ing sound and economical financial policy at Albany
Now, of the "ten years" here indicated as the
cycle Of Republican misgovemment, two were passed
under the Governorship of Mr.. Horatio Seymour,
q magnste of this censorious Convention, while
Mr.. Sanford T.. Church, its nominee for Controller,
was Lieut.. Governor throughout four of those
years; and Democratic Legislatures have borne
sway for three or four of them. In 1856, no party
had majority, but the Republicans were decided
minority, and they have been fully in power but
single year. If anybody can be made really to believe
that the Republican ascendency hiss set IAN exam
{" ple of improvidence," which has spread into
{" the business affairs Of the People," and caused
I" the present reckless expenditure, prOfuse debt,
and abuse of credit" we advise him not to 30
near Lunatic Asylum.
But the Democracy, we are told above, call
"upon the people to remedy this state of affairs,
"by establishing sound and economical financial
"polcy at Albany" wherefore they present San.
ford f. Church as their candidate for Controller Of
the State Finsnces. 1t became, therefore, legti-
mate and natural inquiry "Who is this Mr..
Church' What are bis financial capacities and
antecedents!"
These questions responsible correspondent,
whose name is at the service of any inquirer on
behalf of Mr.. Church, answered by stating that
Mr.. Church was & member of the Canal Board of
1853 at the time of the famous Canal Lettings IN
der the Nine Million Act, and that he then and
there, while ostensiby in favor of awarding each
contract to the lowest bidder, entered into a pri
sate arrangement with certain Whig and Demo-
cratic associates, forming VITA himself a msjorty
of tie Board to award those contracts arbitrarily
TO Ger favOrtes of the several members forming
said majority-that full proportion of these con-
tracts were by this arrangement to have been
awarded to the special friends of said Sanford f.
Church at prices above those for which other re-
spobsibe bidders had proposed to take them-and
that in one instance contract was, BY this slate,
TO have been awarded to friend and protege Of
Mr.. Church for S7S,00O, when other responsible
bidders had offered to take it for $4,000, or
S25 coo less than Mr.. Church's friend was to have
for il. This statement two or three journals sup
porting Mr.. Church have threatened to answer, or
said they could answer, but as yet they have not
done it, so far az we have seen. II there is good
explanation lying bach somewhere, we think II can
hardly be produced too soon
We felt challenged by the abusive impusations OF
Mr. Churchs supporters to look into their standard.
bearers dealings with the State in the matter OF
bis own compensation while Lieut.. Governor. We
obtained from the official records copy of Mr.
Churchs own charges against the State, as en-
bodied in Rept IT made BY Controller James VI.
Cook to the Senate while Mr.. Church presided
over that body, and when it was morally impossible
that sly mistake should have therein been made
without provoking instant correction. Ihat Ne
port appears to have been drawn out by reso'd'
ton Of inquiry, ard we gave its details aad conc'u'
sion in ful. Had the inqairy been an invidous aud
unfair one, Mr.. Church had only to indicate that
fact, snd its scope would have been enlarged u ac-
cordsnce with the requirements of justice. But
nothing of the kind was then pretended. That
Report shows that Mr.. Church drew from tie
Treasury no less sum than S. 299 for bis services
ard mileage between the sth Of July, l352, aud
Dec. 81, 1864 period of less than eighteen
months. During this period, he would seem BY
his account to have devoted two hundred aud sixty,
Elk days to tie States service, for which his legal
compensation was 81, $50; the other 50 7O3 was
bis mileage for various journeys To and from the
performance Of bis official dutes-maipiy between
his residence at Albion aud the sest OF government
at Albany
"Well. tsdn't be right TO charge and receive
"this SO 7C3 for milesge'" his supporters ekuit-
intly ask. We thiLk he had net, and shall proceed
TO give rea,crs for this conviction
Mr.. Church attended meetings OF rse Cadsi
B, sro at Albany in july, iSoa, ani charged tae
STAT. for four day. .eIvice on 'ccs Beard AID lar