New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-23
A TRUTHFUL LETTER.

Gov. H.-'We have been friends together
gour friend. You had scarcely come over to us
Wings of twenty years ago from the Democratic
party, which you bad up till then supported, and
which had repeatedly and vainly tried to elect you
to Congress, when you were taken up on our side,
run not merely at but into Congress, and kept
there three full terms, closing in March, lS49
Before that time, you had been elected by our
folks Controller Of the Finances Of our State and,
ere the close of your term in that Office, you were
nominated by us for the still higher post of Gov
ernor, TO which ii was all We could do to elect you
because of the bitter and special hostility Of the
more conservative, prO-slayery wing of our party,
which bolted from the State Convention which
nominated you for GOyerno. taking away third
of its members, including It's President and which
in due time got up Union Safety" State Ticket
composed of candidates selected in equal parts
from the Democratic and the Wing tickets your
rivals name being put on, and yours of
course left off. This dodge threw you more
than One Thousand behind in our City, where
the Wings had an average majority at that
Election, and where your present associates,
Messrs. james Brooks and George Briggs, were
elected to Congress by the very Union-sayers who
so nearly did your business-yOur majority in the
whole State being but 262 votes. You ran for
Governor once more, and for the last time as yet,
in 1852: but now the UniOn-savers were fully and
secretly banded against you, as against Gen. Scott
and all other Wings who were suspected of Free
Soil tendencies, and you were overwhelmingly
beaten-by Ten Thousand majority in the City;
BY Twenty five Thousand in the State. The dis
cipline thus administered to you seems to have
been efectual: You sank out of public life into the
arms of your persistent, deadly enemies; and have
ever since been their most subseryient tool. And,
having for six years been the errand- hoy of your
political assassins, the Wing Union-savers, it is
but natural that you should by this time have
educated yourself up to the point of embarkiDg
in the service Of your open and unsparing enemies,
the Soft Democrats in whose Central organ find
your late Albany speech reported with all the
honors. You of course forget what cannot, that
that organ was for years accustomed to hold you
up not only TO ridicule as political mountebank,
devoid alike of talent and principle but as person.
ally corrupt and unworthy, the tool and ally of
public punderers-as George Washington
" Huntem, the sham farmer employed as q Peter
Funk by political watch-stufiers to decoy in the
victims of their rascaties. Of course, this albany
Atlas thinks your late Speech capital one, evinc-
ing equal wisdom and patriotism. Let us consider
its position in the light of few fundamental facts:
You we're Wing Member of Congress in loi7,
when David Wilmot, Preston King, Hannibal
Hamlip, and other prominent Northern Democrats
in view of a call by President Polk for Three
Millions wherewith to negotiate peace with
Mexico-resolyed that the territorial acquisitions
thus about to be made should not enure to the az
grandizement of Slavery. They according, moved
Feb u the since famous WilmOt Provso, which
you and every other Northern Wing promptly and
thoroughly sustained; and it finally passed the
House CFeb. l5) by the very full vote OF Yeas 49,
Nays IO6: your vote, with that Of nearly or quite
every other Wbig from the Free States AID that oil
John w. Houston (Whg) of Delaware, being cast,
wi those of at least three fourths of the Northern
Democrats in the Affirmative, while every Mem
her from q slave State (Mr. Houston eYcepted)