New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-21


ting op badly with biz GoyerDorship, sven in his
own estimation. He commences a letter to the
Abolitions.s aid Probibitionsts Of Madison Comfy
| IN tie following strsln:
| 81 coufess my disappointment in you. hsd hoped
that you would be eager 10 identity yourselves vita
this m, vernept TO elect 20 the ofce OF Governor
man VITO recognizes TO rights O! property in sddsn-
irg liquors When they sred for sale beve-
| rage, AID ~ho knows 10 law for Slavery any more
| thar for any 9th or piracy.
"It is true thst some Of you are working arm aud
sou for my election But Is sso true that msny OF
you, ike many Of our frierds in o:ber psrs Of toe
STATE, are waiting TO see wat noInnsions tne Rspu5-
licsn sLG Temperance Convertions will make To
this se vstiig will il be owirg if movement
10 eject Prohibition AID Abolition Governor shall
fall"
All this ia in bad taste, and is bad policy. No
earnest supporter Of Mr.. Smith can really be hold
irg back in expectation Of bis Endorsement By the
Republican State Convention How could that
be7 Mr. Smith never belonged to the Republican
party, DOT pretended to sympathize with it. He
holds ttst Congress may ard should proceed forth.
with to sbolish Slavery in the Slave States while
tie great MACS Of the Republicans believe Con-
grets to have no more power to do this than to
sboish eerfdom in Russs or polygamy 10 Turkey.
He holds tba. the great Ass Of the People are de-
te1miredy, sggressively Anti-Slsvery; Repubf-
cans for the most part, are but defensively, con-
,eIyatigey 70 Twothirds of them would
not have been by this time consciously,
actively Ant Slavery at all, but for the
uI ceasDg efforts of the Slave Power to ex-
tend lie influence ard sway. The Annex alton of
Texas the repeal Of the Missouri Compact, the
Federal coUDtensace and support accorded to the
efforts Of the Border Rsfhans to enslave Kans,s
eliminating in the Lecompton fraud, have made
tens of Thousands of old fashioned Wings and Dem
ocIats Anti.Slsvery to the extent required to de-
ftnd The National Territories from the clutch of
Slavery; bit not one third Of the present Republi-
can party are any further Anti-Savery than the
principles of their fathers, the heritage Of their
children, ard determination to wash their hands
of oil completely in Slavery Extension require them
to be. Tie statement of this fact msy help Mr.
Smiths vote; but, sn,e ii is fact, il ought TO be
stated. If any pretends to be lying his oars
awaiting the action Of the Republican State Con-
venton with any idea that Mr.. Smith viii be NOM
mated by it, then that person is bypocr'e or an
idiot. There ia 10 possibility of such nomins
tiop, aid those who mean to support Mr.. Smith
should take ground for him at once. Mr. s. is
perfectly right IL treating thosA who pretend to
await the action of the Republican State Convex
tion as really adverse to his election; though We
suspect be Hill nsle no headway BY scolding t0em.
AT all events, if he should, his gain viii be ali entire
novelty in political campaigning.
Nor Will the Republican party take ground, as a
party, in favor of Liquor Prohibition. A great
many Republicans are Prohbitionists, while most
ProbibitiOnsts art Republicans; but Rspublicanism
and Prohibition are totally independent of each
other. A man may be Republican and no. Pro-
hibiiionist Ike Gov. King, or Prohibtionist and
not Republican, Ike Mr. Smith, or both Re-
Eublcan and Prohibtiobist, like ex-GOv. Clark.
The Republicans may nominate Prohiblslonst or
ole who is net; but in either case he will be sup
ported ard opposed mainly asa Republican, whether
by advocates or opponents of Prohibition.
But how many men are there in the State who,
under existing circumstances, desire our next Leg
islature TO psss Probibi;ory Law! What good
could such an act Dc, in view OF the attitude aud
recorded judgment of our highest Court! The
actual ard absolute suppression Of the Liquor
Traffic would undoubtedly be a great good;
but a mere legislative eDsctment of Prohlbi-
ton, condemned in advance by our highest
judicial tribunal, would neither give us actual
Prohibition nor any other good whatever II would
only te another ADDITION to the letter abortions
which already iacumber our statute-books. The
cause Of Prohibition was Temporarily ruined in
this State when the Republican Judges of Appeals
Cur,th k,,a anI
corseptinc, ard Messrs. Delavsn and Wilder ac-
lively co operating. Until either our State Con-
stituton or the composition Of cur Court Of Ap-
pesls shall have been materially charged, NJ good
can result from the passage of Prohbitory Law.
And yet we fitd in none Of Mr.. Smiths letters, nor
Corventior any fraLk cou.iderst Oh of this Judicial
obstacle 10 the present enforcement of Prohibition.
Is this fair Ought not the public to know 10
what manner that judgment is TO be conformed to
or eyaded in the Prohlbitory Act which is now in
contemplation
Mr. Smith commits capital miitake 10 un.
deItakipg to yindca,e hmse BY personal denials or
81 plcation., from all unfavorsbe charges, insnus-
to,s ayeInen's, which come to his ears. This is
a wsste of tine and labor. Better leave them to
die uprotced. Such are Lot usually addu led or
tnphss zed IS reasons but as pretexts for prede-
termibed oppo sition. Nobody is really going to
vote against Mr. Smith because of these arraign-
merts Of his past course nor vote for him because
of bis contradictions He might as we'll spend his
strength III chasing butterflies (or wnps) as in con-
futrg them.
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