New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-08
NRW.JERsEY-THE QUARANTINE.

The problem of the insgnifcsnoe aud impotence
of New Jersey in the general regard aud in the
National Councils, is one which necessarily forces
ltself upon public attention. Why is it that a
State so advantsgeOusly located, of such respecta
bic area, fertile and facile soil genial climate aud
Revolutionary renogD, has sunk TO the position Of
cypher in the American Confederscyl Why is
her name so generally provocative of sneer or a
contemptuOus smie7 Why is her voice so seldom
beard and so slightly needed on any question of
National moments Why does she never, in our
generation, command place in the Cabinet or any
but one Of the psltriest and most superfluous Mis-
sionsl In short, what is il that has dwarfed her
to a position in the Confederacy below that Of
Delaware or Florida
We answer: 1t is the presence ald prepOnder-
ance Of small narrow, mean men in her councils:
il is the supremacy accorded therein to Money over
Merit; it is the surren Ter of her intellect and con-
science to the direction of sOulless corporations,
who iuhame her avaTice and infect her with the
virus of their own baseness by the russ of sad
ding upon strangers passing over her soil the
rigbtiul cost of supporting her Government, and
thus work their bits into her mouth and their sad
de on her back and rule her whichever way their
own sordid ends may impel them. With the Cam
den and Amboy Railroad Company at the helm,
what more natural than that ThOmsons and
Wrigtts should represent her in the Senate
While Money and Patronage have undivided sway,
what is to be expected but that Patronage should
take one seat, and let Money fill the other'
What more unreasonable than 10 imagine that,
while elections were carried by the heaviest pock-
ct book, the men thus placed in the sea,s of honor
should be fit successors of the Day TONS Southards
Frelipghuysens, Nrooms and Walls of other days
Who forgets the Divine assurance, "Ye cannot
serve God and Msmnon?"
The treatment of the Quarantine question by
the rulers Of New-Jersey is precisely what her
receu. history and present degradation must have
foreshadowed. Our City is constrained to uphold
al large cost Quarantine establishment TO prevent
the introduction by sea Of contagious malsdies.
Toward The cost of this establishment, New.Jersey
contributes little or nothing, while Of its benefits
she shares freely, abundanty. Let our Quarantine
be abandoned, and her centers Of population es.
Elizabethtown, Railway, New-Brunsvick, would
be constantly scOurged with SMALLPOX, Ship
Fever, Typhus, &c, while nearly every Summer
would see them rayased and devastated BY Yellow
Fever, introduced to our Bay and Port By vessels,
but readily disse minated on every side by incoming
immigrants and travellers. Her interest in and
benefit from our Quarantine is proportionaly equal
to our own. Yet its cost is betrayed wholly by our
commerce. none of il directly and but shred Of
remotely, by her.
AT length the point at which the Quarantine has
hitherto been maintained hss become unf. and IN
safe, through the gradual increase of population
al around it. Thousards live within 8 mile of it;
hundred, necessarily pass almost under its windows
daily. Its removal has become an imperative
necessity TO all interested in its maintenance aud
there happen. to be bu. one convenient and suit
able SPOT for it's future location within reach Thst
point is Sandy Hook, a naked, desolate, unlnhab-
tied .and spit, isolated from al population present
or prospective not worth hundred dollars for any
other purpose, yet rendered saubrious BY its very
barrenness and solitude, and BY the strong breezes
which sweep over it alike from sea aud land. Cn-
like any spot in or near the harSor under the