New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-29

particularly fond of him, and evidently
expected to be appointed Secretary of State;
but that post was assigned to Clay, and
Clinton offered the mission to England, which
he declined. and soon united with the formd-
able combination against Adams and Clay
which in 1923 made Jackson President and re-
elected Calhoun Vice-President This fusion
would doubtless have made Clinton Secretary
OF State had ho not died a few months
prior to its triumph, leaving Van Buren,
the undisputed chief in this State,
"a ho had been the engineer OF
the Jackson combination. Clinton had been
again chosen Governor in 1926; Van Buren,
WAS now chosen to succeed hlm-tho
Adams party being distracted by Anti
Masonry. 1t nevertheless chose (by distrlcts)
16 of the SO Electors and gave Adams 10000
of the peoples votes TO 10000 for Jackson
But Clinton had carried over to Jackson many
of the local managers of the dissolved "Peo-
"ple's party and Jaclsonism. though repeat
cdly crowded hard maintained its predomi-
nance here through ten years electing EnOs
| II. ThroOp Governor in 1880 and William l..
Marcy i'll 3 "a and 'S6, while giving our
States full Electoral Vote (by general ticket
to reeeCt Jackson in '52 and make Van Buren,
| his successor III 1896.
| Van Buren, was inaugurated in March, 1887 f;
| the Banks of this City suspended Specie Pay
ment on the 10th of May ensuing, and their
example was speedily followed throughout the
| country. Public opinion regarded this az the
elimination in failure of the "pet Bank
system, wherein the party in power had
staked its fortunes, and the local elections
soon presagcd political revolution. At our
November election 1857, this State was
swept into the current, choosing Wing Sen
ators in six of the eight districts into which
| the State was divided, with 100 Wing to p
Democratic Assemblymen. This City went
Wing for the first time on her aggregate VOTE
by majority averaging over 1000
But consider the names on which 1t was
carried Cuban c. Yerplanck for Senator,
David b. Ogden leading the Assembly ticket,
followed by Samuel b. Ruggles, Willis Hall,
Adoniram Chandler, &C., with Jacob Acker
for Sheriff, Joseph Hoxie for Clerk, and James
Gulicll for Register. Each candidate brought
strength to the ticket; ~ whole none so
strong has since been presented. And it was
so throughout the State: Daniel ID. Barnard
from Albany, Luther Bradish from Franklin,
George w. Patterson from Livingston, Fortune
C.. White from Oneida, James r. Lawrence
and Victory Birdseye from Onondaga, and
scores of equal worth. There was more talent
and character in that one Assembly than in
the ten last chosen.
May we now have another such Legislature
If we can nominate Republican candidates as
worthy and as reputable as the Wing candi-
dates of 1887, we may sweep the State as they
did. We cannot elect corruptionists and in
significant creatures, whereat we profoundly
rejoice. IL the next Legislature is to be no
improvement the last morally and intel
lectually. we trust it will be unchanged po-
litcally. We do MT want lineal SUCCESSORS TO
the Radical saints" and white-neckclothed
scoundrelsp whom The Albany Argus
charges with receiving vast brides TO pass abom-
Unable Tax-Leves out of the Millions stolen
from our City in the guise of bills for carpets
never woven and pasterng never done. If
such cattle shall buy or steal Republican
| nominations, knife them