The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1836-02-25
RIOTS--sTATE OF THE CITY.

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blood shed, and local revolution. The general thaw
has commenced ndeed-a thaw that melts saow, ice,
the human heart and all the and best principles
of human nature. At one and the same moment, we
have committees of charity perambuaiing the streets TO
collect money for the poor-Trades Union associations
spreading bloodshed and devastation around-ourney
men taiors combining against their employers and
masters against their uniting in
putting up rents enormously high and lease-takers
bidding each other to get places ofbusinsss-ghs
between the police authorizes and the seyedores-
military regiments ordered in arms-snow melting
business resuming-crowds collecting, sc. &c. &c.
Ever since the fatal day when certain assenblages Of
this city, led on by the Courier and Enquirer, gave
example of lawess mob violence and were cheered 10
the destruction of Mr.. Tappans house and furniture
the spirit of INSTRUMENTATION has only ncreased-spread
around the country-and may almost be now consider
ed a settled element of American character. Occa-
sonaly the blame is thrown upon the poor devils OF
rishmen on the Popish religion, the fanatics and
abotionsts, but the unhappy trait now developed is
not confined to any section any 1t was
but the other day that the newspapers full of
mob at Mayville in Fredonia county in the western
wilderness-- is but now that the spring mobs of New
York have commenced--before the is off the
streets-beere the avaIanches have knocked the reqr-
site number down-before business has even begun.
What is the matterl Can any body tell the radical
cause of the diseased of society," VIII any paper
have the courage and bodness to be honest and tell the
whole truth If neither the Courier and Enquirer or
the Journal of Commerce among the big. nor the Sun
or the dirty Transcript among the small papers, have
the courage or capacity to tell the truth, the Herald
will not be afraid to take the responsibility and
facts whomsoever they fall upon.
The evil of our present state of society springs from
both sides-from the rich and the portion the en-
ployer and the employed-from the master and jour
newman. 1t grows out equally Of the graspng nature
of the hsman heart. No calamity will teach the rich
moderation-no suffering the poor discretion. The
great fire and lis consequent events, the removal of the
post Office the increase of rents, have caused much of
the present state things. Landlords oresallers and
EMPLOYERS are too avaricous Take for instance the
master taors No class of traders make higher profits
or charge higher prices than they. Yet the ourneymen
do not get fair remuneration for their labor. There
is no class of men more liberal than the merchants
On no occasion have the persons employed by them
just cause of complaint. The principal oppressors
of the working people are your small arstocrats-bose
who have just got little property together and
mence shaving in miniature.
The expenses of living and rents have all advanced
enormously. So great has this rise been that many
families are preparing to emgrate from New York to
the great West We know many respectable men,
clerks in banks, who cannot afford to live on good
salary during the present increase of expenses. They
say come let us go west, always get living
there and lay up something for a rainy day." If the
present high rates of living continue, let men OF
wealth take they don't depopuate the city.
On the side of the ourneymen ard laborers there
great fault be found that of their employers.
These Trades Unions are nusances-these riots ought
to be at once put down by the military power. The
whole system of combination is vicious and illegal in
the extreme. On any occasion, calm and general re-
monstrance from journeymen to employers, backed by
public opinion, would always gain its ends Lawless
violence, boodshed, and riot, never. With these re
marks we annex all account of the state of the city
yesterday.
Up TO IL o'clock yesterday, all was quiet We took
turn from Vesey street and the North River around
Maiden lane on the East. No symptoms of riot had
then occurred. Several vessels whose were
anxious TO have them cleared had engaged sevedores
at their OWE prices and they work. The packer
ship Huntsville for New Orleans will be delayed in
of their men being stopped the day before
The freight was lying in the hold and the tween
decks, in disorder, and the dock is filled with boxes
casks and hogsheads. About one hundred men only
are at work upon the ruins Of the large fire. The
National Grays duty at the City Hall, awaiting
orders, in case Of any disturbance.
The Sd Regiment Artillery consists of companies
Infantry, and 9 troops of horse. COL G. p. Morris.
The 9th Regiment Artillery, Col. Morgan L. Smith