New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-04
sble for employing this dangerous and death dealing
machine and then the Grand jury would have had
no excuse for overlooking his case.
THE GOvKRNOR,s MESSAGE.

lature Of our State, communicated az the opening
of its session Yesterday will be read with eratilca-
ton by the citizens Of New-iork, and WIN IN
terest by those of other States Its survey OF our
past legislation, public policy and present condition.
has rarely if ever been exceeded in comprehensive
ness. lucdity and terseness 1t is hardly possible
that more information with regard to the resources
history and legislation of any State was ever before
crowded into space so moderate. It's exlnpn Oh
tbe Revenues, Debts, Public Property, Taxation,
Canal TRANSPORTATION, Public Instruction, Prison
management, Benevolent Institutions, Banking, &C.,
of our State is clear and in the main satisfactory
Its suggestions with regard to Excise, our Metro
politan Police, the Registration of Legal Voters,
Railroads Poor-Laws, our Quarantine System, our
Hsrbor, &C.. will command very general aP-
proval. What he says with regard to the personal
influences affecting or seeking to affect the purity of
legislation, is so good that there will be very gen.
eral regret that he did not see fit to say more; but
his intimatiOn that public functionares who neglect
their official duties tc devote their time to lobbying
at Albany will thereby subject themselves to re-
moyal, is ga word fifty spoken" which we trust
will be thoroughly needed. If not, LET there be no
hesitancy to execute the justice thus distinctly
threatened.
With regard to Slavery, and the National contro-
versies created by or concerning it, we think
there will he very general conviction that
the Governor has spoken judiciously, kindly, and
with signal moderation. As the chief magistrate
of the State from which John Brown and his prin-
cipal confederates went forth on their raid against
in inia iucum on m N
show that theirs was not the act of NewYork, but
is distinctly disayOwed and condemned by her.
While she refrans from joining in the howl OF de-
traction and Misrepresentation which was raised
during the lives aud is maintained after the deaths
of those victims she does not justify their in
yasiOn of Virginia, but deplores and condemns it,
But the lamentable occurrences at HarperS Ferry,
so far from overbearing or weakening her hostility
to the Extension of Slavery, serve to confirm and
deepen that hostility, and to rouse her to greater
activity in asserting and maintaining the policy OF
the Revolutionary Fathers. Some will regret that
Gov. Morgan has spoken in apprehension of raids
like that of Brown; others will condemn rather the
distinctness and emphasis wherewith he reaffirms
his devotion to the Nationality of Freedom; but
great majority Of our people will concur with him
in both positions.
The announcement that our Enlarged Canal
may be made, by a moderate expenditure, naviga-
bic next Spring to its full contemplated dimensions,
will be hailed with qualification by the whole people
of our State, and not of our State alone. The en-
tire Free West will participate in the advantages of
this consummation. There will still remain some
wallng to be completed some land damages to he
paid; but waterway Of seven feet by seventy,
permitting the passage of boats of two hundred aud
forty tuns burden, may be completed by the LIST Of
NAV next and the entire work finished and paid
for within one year thereafter, at an aggregate
cost in addition to what has already been paid, OF
about Two Millions of Dollars. We have so long
been paying, paying to attain this end and SO re-
pestedly been greeted with the unwelcOme tidings
that more money was needed, though the whole es-
timated cost of the work had already been paid,
that it now seems hard to realize that We may en-
ter upon the use and enjoyment of the Enlarged
Canal within four months, and cease working upon
and paying iof it within one year thereafter. We
surely need not urge the Legislature TO cooperate
promptly aud heartily in bringing to pass these be-
nign results.
There will be some opposition to the Governors
recommendation that the Canal Tolls be restored to
the rates which existed prior to the reductions of
1853 and 1859, ard that the competing Railroad be
required to pay moderate toll also; but that oppo-
sition cannot must not prevail. What is proposed
by the Governor is simply that the citizens of Suffolk
| and Orange, ST. Lawrence and Steuben, shall no
longer be taxed to pay part of the cost of bringing
to compete with them on the seaboard the products
of Ohio and Michigan Illinois and Wisconsin. For
some years the farmers of our State have been pay
ing additional taxes in order to tighten the expense
of conveying to this port the great staples OF the
| bounteous West Our Canals being then practically
finished, we may safely well as justly open the
next year of navigation by restoring the Canal Tolls
to the low standard of 1857; for, while the tolls
will be higher than last year, the reduced cost Of
transportation, owing to the enlarged capacity of the
Canas, will more than cOunteryail the increase (or
rather, restoration) of tolls This enhanced facility
of movement having been obtained at the cost aud
risk Of our taxpayers it is but just that the! should
share promptly and sensiby in its benefits. Let
those tax payers but feel assured that their burdens
are soon TO be ghtened, and they viii bear with for
titude their full weight for year Or two longer.
The propriety and justice ofren posing moderate
toll on Produce or Merchandise transported on the
| Central Railroad, are clearly demonstrate. That
road runs through an almost unbroken line of cities
and villages called into existence by the Erie Canal.
| by the construction Of that Canal, this was made
baat routa If 10 Ienotb in fbe IInon