New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-21
ings Of their Northern friends, il they have none
for tbose Of their slaves.


which specially affect this Emporium are careful
not to publish them. whether in detail or substance
Instead Of letting their readers sec what the Legis-
lature has done they roundly tell them that il has
devoted the session mainly TO furnishing this City for
going strongly against FremOns-that 1t has stripped
the Mayor of all power, especially over the Police
that it has placed us under the rule of partisan
Boards of Commissioners appointed at Albany
that il has swelled our annual expenses BY two,
three, FIVE six or eight millions per annum, &c,
&c. The best answer to these reckless calumnies
will be found in the acts themselves; and If every
citizen would only read these comparing them
carefully with the provisions they supersede we
should BE- willing to let the whole subject pass with
out another word.
Take the Supervisors bill for example. 1t is
most important that there should BE- some respon-
sibe, independent tribunal Of exalted character to
scrutinize and govern appropriations and expendl-
lures of the public money. This duty now devoives
on the Board Of Aldermen, with the Mayor and
Recorder-all strong partsans, and nearly all OF the
dominant party. Those who are to expend, and in
some cases themselves receive the money, are made
the sole auditors of their own accounts. and the
result is of course waste with needless prodigality.
The new system changes all this. Under it, each
party will nominate six men for Supervisors-good
men, pretty surely for, while the Office will not be
desired it will help the whole ticket to select men
of known capacity and worth for this trust. Well:
the most numerous elects ts six candidates, OF
course, and the Mayor thereupon appoints the six
candidates standing next on the poll. Here Is
Board of real SuperysOrs-a Board wherein the
party in power will have but All equal vote, and so
will be- unable to consummate any game Of pecula-
ton. No possible advantage to the Republican
party can be derived from this bi save as it shall
prevent functonaries of adverse parties from steal
ing the public money. Yet this is one of those
horrible - Black Republican measures which the
Legislature is charged with enacting only to plum
der the City aud put Black Republicans" in
Office,
Take next the Canvassers bill. Hitherto, the
same men who have spent the day in receiving
scrutinzing and deposting votes, are required to
turn immediately at sunset to canyasslng those
yotes-and the law says they shall continue with
out adjournment till the work is tinished-Oiten an
impractcabe requision. Human nature can bear
but to certain extent, and the canvass is often
stopped midway by the sheer inability of the can
yassers to proceed further. But hereafter the
canvassers will be fresh men, entering upon their
duties at sunset untired and clear-headed. They
can do the work far quicker as we'll as better than
the already jaded inspectors can do it, and they can
finish il ut sitting, where the inspectors would
often be compelled by fatigue TO adjourn. This is
another of the - Outrages" which the ignorant
"bushwhackerS" who represent the inland counties
have inflicted on our City
As to the Amended Charter, We defy the most
preiudiced Democrat 10 read it without realizing
that it is d great improvement on the present IN
strument, and does not take power from Democrats
to give it to Republicans 1t does abolish two de-
psrtments of our present Administration, but only
one of these is filled by Democrat, while the
powers which thus lapse are mainly placed in Dem.
ocratic hands No patronage Of any value is given
To the Republicans by this act while many gross
abuses corrected or precluded by it.
Commissioners are chosen to lay ont and i'm
prove the Central Park and to build the new City
Hall. No one will pretend that the former is
partisan commission, while the latter if decidedly
Republican, has little chance to favor any party,
and is composed of men who could not be induced
to deplete the treasury for the benefit of any party
or psrisans.
The Police bill is tho only one obnoxious to the
charge Of fayoring any party, and we trust the
working Of the new system will quiet every cayil.
1t would have been madness for the friends Of
measure so bitterly resisted to confde ts execution
10 its deadly enemies: and of the seven Police
Commissioners, but four are Republicans. These
are called thorough partisans; but We trust their
public acts will silence the clamor We appeal to
Messrs. Draper, Nye, Bowen and Fiske to prove
at once their wisdom and their devotion to Repub-
lcan principles by resolving and Proclamlng that
no capable. faithful policeman shall ever be renewed
b, them on account of his politics. Unfit men
they must remOve-they were appointed Tor that
purpose-but not to supersede any man because OF
his political opinions To do this will be to injure
the Republican cause and irreparably damage their
own fame Make the Department that terror to
.ydoers" il is not but ought to be, but never in-
o,lire the politics of good officer, still less OF bad
one but retain the former and eject the latter no
matter Of what party Do this, and the voice of
complaint Will be hushed, or changed to acclama-
non.
As to the pretense that the Mayor IS deprived Of
mower over the Police by this act, it is too prepos-
terou. 70 be treated seriously. The sole answer to
all such assertions is-Read the act!
What the people of Kansas shall do IN the hard
and cruel dilemma TO which they have been re-
.f tha Eadaral Administra-