New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-15

got the idea ma. De sBes as good care Of me Stes
money az be does Of bis own. Thi, is q great d.
lusoD. Mr.. De Witt, the Secretary of State, has
already said, under bis own signature, that the Gov
erpor irisd IN induce hm 70 Allow bill and hsyeic
laid GU: Of the btate Treasury, for services per-
Il fmed in the office of the Central Committee vi The
party during political campaign. Aniit is notori-
ous that his principal advOc,.es before the
people sre the very same exrayaaan. dogs
who have, during the last three years, so
nisman, eed fnsIeisl sf,irs that a tax OF
a million Of dollars q year ia necessary -
Keep the States bead above water. His stump
sneakers are such men as f. C. Baker. who voted
for The Tunnel Loan bill, and who draw, IS a dsy
trem the Treasury pretense Of being IN Insurance
Conmi, sioner; Augus.u, Z. Cary, mos: resoute
office holder who last year was compelled give
up ore Of his places because he he'd mora than the
Constitution allowed hun tn hold; William s. King,
another supporter of the Tunnel Loan, and so in
love with extrayagsnce that he defended the eI-
Cl,rk haskell even against Gardner bimsef; Ml@n
Austip the clerk for whOee partisan service the
Governor wanted Mr.. De Witt 10 pay out Of tho
STATE Trea.ury; George II. Devereux, who in 1856
defended the prohigate expenses OF the previous
year against the exposures OF Mr.. Charles Hale;
+. j. Fletcher, the Judge" I have be.
fore meI:ned a. os u Il. Dssw.r Who has
Commissioner and Assistant District. Attorney for
three years past, and SO ON. Most of these men
were members Of the Legislature of lc55-a Legis-
lature which The Boston Courier, after its ADJOURN
ment declared WAS " the most extravagant the
"most drunken the most impious, the most
" lecherous'-and yet The COurisr is now following
The lead OF ttese same men, and advocating policy
which, if successful, will insure the return of a
Legislature characterized by all the above-named
lovely qualities. This is easily accounted for. The
Courtr cares nothing about the State expenses but
il cares great deal for Hunkerism; and with an
uneIring instinct it is able to discover beneath the
baIdsees and Wrappages Of Anti Slavery in which
Gov. Gardner has rolled himself up, the genuine
Pro. Slavery core, always to be relied upon in an
emeIgency-a core which, though not virtuOus, yet
resembles virtue, as described by George Herbert:
- Like ned timber; sives
But, thSush the " whole ole world turn to COAL
The State ticket agreed upon by the supporters
of Mr. Banks was correctly given in my last letter,
with the exception Of the candidate for Auditor.
Mr. Charles White Of Worcester is nominated for
this Cfice, instead Of Mr.. Joseph White Of Lowell.
Mr. Charles White 10 a new man upon the ticket.
He H. or has been doing large business in the City
of w ofcester, and il reckoned skllful and judi
ci0us business man, with habits of industry, hon
esty and accuracy, which well qualify him for the
,fice of Auditor. He is an old Free-SOiler, has
been several times q member of the House from
Worcester, and is an excellent legislator. He is
much better man for Auditor than Mr.. Ransom, the
present Incumbent who, though capable and
metht dical enough is much under Gov. Gardeners
influence that he hardly safe man for 80 respOu
sible place. know of no reason why Mr. Taft,
who was nominated by the Republicans and &C.
cepted their nomination, was induced to make way
for Mr.. White, or why Mr.. Joseph White was
induced to make way for Dir. Warner as Secretary
of State, except that Messrs. Taft and Joseph White
were active in the Senate last Winter in opposing
the Fourteen Years Amendment. Mr.. Warner was,
however, on the same side of that question, but it
was probably thought that the support of three
of the Senators who had taken 50 conspicuous
part in killing the proposition referred to, would be
more than the American" branch of the party
ought to be compelled to put up with. The Bee
says that Mr.. Warner now stands upon David Will
mOts American doctrines, which quito as strong
as those held by our own Americans, or by Gov.
Gardner himself The Bees statement on this
point, however, needs confirmation Mr.. Joseph
White is also somewhat obnoxious to the military
interest-the gentlemen who are satirized by John
Leecb, h Pxnch, as having taken the influenza and
broken out all over with red stripes and brass but
tons Inst Winter, he made a laudabe attempt to
abolish the three days parade Ofthe soldiery. This
measure of reform would have saved the State some
forty thousand dollars year. AS soon as it was
brought forward, the military men placed the Legs-
lature in State of siege, az they had before done
when it was proposed to disregard their wishes In
Gardn6r sent bis Aids into the Senate Chamber to
threat4 II ycto and the bill was defeated, or so
modified that lite usefulness was partially destroyed.
The soldiers bear Mr.. White much i-will on ac-
count Of his share in this transaction.
Mr.. Clifford, you will be glad to see, makes way
for Mr. Phillips of Salem. Mr.. Phillips is worthy
son of Stephen C.. Phillips who was lost by the
great steamboat disaster on the ST Lawrence. lie
is quite as good lawyer as Mr.. Clifford, and prob
Ed attn in nta
spect re SIS wholly upon his argument IN the case OF
Professor Webster and his success in that case was
mainly owing to the fact that the Professor was
poorly defended. 1t is the general belief that if
Dir. Choate or Mr. Butler had been counsel for the
Professor he would not have been convicted. Mr..
Chfl0rds failure to get Mrs. Gardner convicted OF
the murder Of her husband, when opposed by a
gentleman comparatively inexperienced IN criminal
law, Mr.. G. G.. Davis, has tended to increase the
suspicion that be is mt quite the for Attorney
General His habits Of interfering with the legis!a
ton Of the State, and debating to the Senate and
House, have also helped TO make people contented
with the prospect Of getting rid Of him.
The candidates for Lieutenant. Governor on the
two leading tickets are both Americans Mr.. Trask
who is on the Banks ticket, is personally and po-
ticaly more respectable than his opponent, Mr.. De
Witt. Mr.. De Witt is one Of the original Free
Soilers who plunged int Americanism in 1914, and
who, unlike most of the others, has never even made
an attempt to extricate himself. Being man OF
considerable bulk, he has sunk deeper and deeper
every year. He was member Of the last Congress,
and his principal exploit was voting 10 exculPite
Edmundson, one of the consprators against Mr.:
Sumner, and holding up his cane at the request OF
Brooks, who desired to prove by that method that
the stick with which our Senator was beaten was
not apparently so murderous weapon as the club
of Biunderbore or Thundel. For these exhibitions
of his sympathy with the Chivalry, Mr.. DE WIT
was last November defeated in the Congressional
canvass, and Mr.. Eli Thayer chosen in his place.