New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-18
THE POsTMATER's PEPLY.

HUeHsoEvILLE, Dutchess Co., July 49, 1857.
Mr.. FERNANDO WooD-Sr: Your printed letter
of the 18th inst is now before me- and lose time
in replying to the appeal you make for aid 10 fighting
what you are pleased to CALL "the battle Of exemption
L" from foreign rule in the local government"
Before answering your question, " wa your county
"stond By us in this conflict 2" beg leave to make
few remarks Living somewhat remote from the city,
Mr.. Wood, and occupied continually 10, trust, more
respectable business than that of omentng disturbance
in the community in which live, my attention has not
been particularly turned to the law of which you COM
plain; and do not, therefore, pretend to know
whether there be any truth in your alega tion that the
Central power at Albany seeks to grasp all Execu.
tive, Judicial Legislative and Municipal control.
But this do know, Sir, for common fame has told me
co. that during your MayOralty the affairs of the City
of New York have been UNANIMOUSLY administered in
almost every department. but especially in that under
YOUR immediate CONTROL that the expenses--I might
truly say the r0bberies-have increased from four
million to eight million dollars per annum; and that
owing to the abomnabe ineiclency and corruption OF
the Police, an amount of crime has been committed
and left unpublished that is positively fearful to con-
template. In word, Sir, since you have occupied
the chair which you unwCrthily fill, New York has
become disgrace to the Union; and unless some
change is brought about the very name will soon
begin to stink in the nostrils of the whole civilized
world.
The cause of this is thoroughly understood in
The " rural districts" have heard enough of Mayor
Wood and his satellites to be convinced that the
wretched state Of things prevailing in the metropolis
is mainly attributable to them. They satisfied that
some change necessary in order to place the Po
lice Department upon a better footing and In safer
hands, and they take leave to doubt whether the
Legislature in passing the law you speak OF, had any
intention of invading the rights of the City and County
of New-Yoik. The law may not, perhaps, be in all
respects good one but Sir before of the country
believe that it is one the object of which was to con-
centrate all power in the hands OF the Albany people,
we must have far better evidence than the simple use
Dirt of the man who has himself, within u month";
been guilty. of the very thing which he now charges
upon Others. Why, Sir, have we not seen you, mere
executive officer erecting yourself INTO Judge Sl ine
to acknowledge and to act under it, and melting your
subordnates to side with you even unto boodshed, IN
your resistance of that law? And now, forsooth, with
q degree of impudence unparalleled in sublimy, you
call upon me and others TO aid you in opposing
graspiDg of Executive and Judicial powers by the
"ruliDg dynastyl"
Now for your question: Will your county," you
ask, stand by us in this conflict = l answer, most
emphatieally No! This county will contribute nothing
toward furhering the object of Fernando Wood 10
making this appeal-that Of causing h'mseJ 10 be
elected The of NJ. King as Gorernor Of ne
State of Nesc- York. When are called upon to
stand by man in political enterprise we naturally
inquire who it is that makes the demand. Is he an
upright and honorable man, or the reverse Has he
ever rendered hmsel liable to a criminal prOsecu-
ton, and, when brought to the bar oiJus'lce, awaited
himself Of the Statute of Limitation, as his only re-
fuge from the State Prison Have his deviations
from an honorable in his business affairs, ever
gone the length Of appropratiDg money enormously
placed to bis credit in the bank and OF cheating his
own partner in the purchase of ship and goods for the
California market Should the answers to these
queries be unsatisfactory in their nature, depend upon
it. Sir that we Of the Rural Districts, instead OF
standing bv such man iu his ambitious projects, will
''dna ''" ~ -'"' '"''"~' v. HAsBRooK.