Year: 1871

was enabled 10 perpctrase this robbery. And,
| When Congress meets, we shall probably have
the material facts developed. and be able to
designate the faulty functionary or bureau.
| And 90 of kindred spoliations


Tho Custom House Committee proceed to
| demonstrate, with delightful unanimity, as
| follows:
| Resofved That tho Aght waeed against Democratic
fraud and CORRUPTION state and City dated from the
day whom Gen. Cant 10 his farsoeing sagacty selected
for Collector OF the Port Of NcwYork that persisent
and indomitsble foe OF Tsmmany Hail. the Hon Thomas
Murphy (applause and wo hereby publicly thank this
tried and trusted Republican and honest for his ser
vices 10 the Republican party, his steadfast support Of
that party and the Government and his unselsh friend
ship President Grant, the representative and head OF
! both. (ApplauSel


Resolved That in the eloquent and chyarous Roscoe
ConkIing fcheers the State Of NeW-Yorn possesses
representative statesman whose cOunsels the Senate
OF the nation, and whose noble services Republican


leader entitle him the fullest confidence OF con.
SItuency which will say to him In Albany In 1874 Well
dono thou good and faithful Senator enter thou upon
another term" lApplause


TO all which, THE TRIBUNE only says that
the People of our State were wholly unaware
that, in voting against the gigantic swindes
of the Tammany Ring, they were approving
the choice of Thomas Murphy for Collector of
this port or iDdorsing Roscoe COnkling as n
candidate for reelection to the Senate; and
that, should they ever do so again, they prob
ably wiH know it,


The next demonstration of the C.. II. Com
mittee is not so prepOsterous as the foregoing,
but is calculated to be still more mischievous
1t is as follows:


nIaSA az oiU no
ture elect to take such speedy for the complete
reorganization Of the department OF Municipal Govern
ment in New York City shall hereafter assure the peo
pie Of honest administration Of public business
pure and sacred elective franchise righteous execution
Of the laws. and a common school system unbiased by
any political patronage, untanted by sectaran inHu-
eDces. lApplausel


1t is the duty of the Legislature TO throw
the strongest possible safeguards around the
Right of Suffrage, and to enact just and equal
laws with regard to Common Schools az to
every other matter of public concern; but it
is not within the power of any legislature to
" assure the People of an honest administration
"Of public business nor even of 90 righteous
" "erecution of the laws" For these, the People
must look to themselves, and to those whom
they from year to year elect to rule over them.


The error which this Committee helps to in
culcate and diffuse is already widely prevalent,
though nothing could be moro perilous. The
Legislature is quite generally expected to do
for us what can only be done by ourselves.
If our respected and thrifty citizens who
have this year evinced, for the first time in
many years, reasonable and adequate inter
est in the choice of their municipal rulers,
shall mistakenly imagine their part of the
work completed. and oontde in the Legislature,
or any exterior authority, to do the rest, they
will fall far short of their duty and doom them
selves to woeful disappointment. They cannot
have honest and frugal rule without giving
earnest heed to the nomination as well as the
election of fit rulers-nOt once in ten years,
but erery year. They must accept the respOn-
sibilties of republican citizenship and discharge
them with persistent fidelity and industry, or
they will awake from another cycle of needless
ness and inactiOn to find themselves victims of a
fresh swarm of plunderers as rapacious and
as skillful in pcculation as that they have jusb
discarded. The Legislature does not and can
not exclude Tweeds from Office nor "assure
righteous execution of the laws" for these
and kindred blessings, the People must rely
wholly upon their own discernment and pat
riotic efforts. When they shall have been fully
imbued with these truths and impelled to act
accordingly, they may fairly expect to derive
substantial benefv from our late revolution