New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-22

tDe rfelufDtt VIII. les, INC Dcu"'i"s'' 49,"
to-day insist that Lecompton is out Of date-that
"tbe Ksnsas question is settled" while they are
putting the knife to the throat Of every antl-Le-
compton Democrat within their reach. Can the
People thus be duped' Can they be made to be-
lieve Lecompton a dead issue, when We see that
not one antl-Lecompton Democrat has been renom-
mated by the Buchanan Democracy that they
are pursued By their late compatriots more reent'
Iessly than if they were Republicans Can that De
q dead issue which thus arrays against every oppo-
nent Of the Lecompton bill the deadliest hostility
the utmost energies. Of the entire buchanan De-
mocracyl
Ard. while the Republicans have done their ~
most To have the Election turn OF the Great Issue
Of the day ard their opponents have constantly
labored and schemed to eyade that issue, we can
proudly say that our side has shunDed personal
defamation and condemned frivolous or irrelevant
electioneerng devices. TIE paltry fa!seoood OF
accusing opponents of hostility to our State "a
mails. now so nearly completed, has been lett 10
those whom no exposure can further disgrace.
He who says Edwin D. Morgan does not desire
the early, thorough, economical completion oil our
State Works, knows himself slanderer, and Is
known as such by all who can read. 1t were idle
to waste words on so paltry falsifer.
So Of the party cry: Morgan and his friends
"wish to sell the Canals" We by no means con-
cede that it would be valid ground of objection TO
them if they did, If the Canals could be sold at a
fair price, under proper restrictions as to their
management, rates of toll. &c, it might or might
not be advisable to sell them. We will consider
that question whenever it shall fairly arise. But
that Mr. Morgan and his friends entertain the idea
of selling them is utterly preposterous. They have
no such intenton-no thought Of 1t. And, on the
other hand, We do know that their loudest-mouthed
adversary who has rung the changes on this charge
ever since Mr. Morgan was nominated, has de-
clared, within year past that the Canals ought to
be, must be, sold to individuals there was no
other way to ensure their proper and economical
management Yet this man is now bawling against
Morgan on the false assumption that he will, II
elected, seek TO sell the Canals ,
We did not suppose man so blameless IN all his
relations as Mr.. Morgan could be venomously
assaed as be has been on the charge of hostility to
the Temperance cause. Mr.. Morgan, it appears,
was State Senator when Prohbitory Act was
once before the Legislature and did not vote for
or against il. The fair presumption is that ne did
not choose even to se,m to oppose Temperance,
set did not feel satisfied with the provisions of this
bill-sO he withheld his vote. And as the Repub-
licans who passedthe only Prohibitory Act we ever
bad, have been and are assaled by MIR. Gerrt
Smith and his disciples as equally recreant and
a.. 20 tba Demo-
cracts who broke that act down, it is obvious that
Mr. Morgan would have won no credit and no
favor with them by voting for the bill.
We have never commended Mr.. Morgan "a a
champion of Liquor Prohibition. We believe his
Judgment cOncurs with our own, that IN view OF
the obstacles to the enforcement of Prohlbtory
Act interposed by the decision OF our Court OF
Appeals affirming the unconstitutiOnality OF our
late Maine Law, it is advisable to try what may be
done in the way of improving and rendering efficient
our present restrictive system before trying again
the experiment of entire Prohibition. He will
defer however, to the judgment Of the Legislature
on this subject And, as it has been charged that
he is himself a dealer in Liquors, we may state
that he, many years ago. gave up the sale oil
Liquors. though, in his business of wholesale
grocer, he might doubtless have made thousands
by prosecuting that traffic. He chose, however,
to forego those profits rather than acquire them by
this trade and to this decision he has steadfastly
adhered Yet Temperance men are urged to re-
ject him as candidate, and east their votes
instead SO as to insure the election Of that candi-
date who is supported by at least nneteen-twen-
tieths of the liquor-dealers of our State
Electors of New-York fail not to vote, and to
vote so that your votes will count We confidently
believe EDWIN ID. MORGAN will be our next Gov
ernor; we know that, should he not be chosen,
Amasa j. Parker must be. One of these cannot
fail to be eeeted-can you hesitate between them
There has been great fight. The much talked.