Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-26


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God lmisaty-sus the beautiful grL-uoss against q" ~
rxm-and Kick all politicians and parsons to TAG devM
Great Public Meeting tn be held I'm haso"''
Hall tonight.
For several days past, those Wall street prints .''1
have been for years past, the agents OF u. uo1
hanks in every species of public fraud ana specu'a
ton agains. the merchants called Inc cieai'
have been publishing the following nou0o
PUBLIC MEEIl lNt .o,n,v Of New York
u The whg the C,y and county " held al Ma
sonic IAN the @ inst a. sever IN no%sse
receive The ssnsor f's Of Assembly and Off
GERS BY o oIiti Err T. HEWLETT, Chairman.
cH.RLEs OAKLEY Secretaries.
Ton;eht therefore, the /" Wing Electors" as these
paltry imators OF the British aristocracy presume 70
designate free people, will meet in the Masonic o'
en- one OF The most important occasions that ever
broupht intellect civilization and bertynto holy COM
municaton with each other. This will not be meet
ING of crafty politicians 10 cheat free psople-oi
swindling spectators to generate fresh Texas lanu
bubbles for public credulity. 1t IS meenng Oh inc
intelligence intellect morals WORTH skill, SCIENCE
and civilization of New York, TO confer on the ac-
ceptance Of a ticket nominated in the midst OF gin
and smoky atmosphere, by seventy sell appointed IN
diyiduals meeting at the Broadway House. Under
the false assumption of party, 1t may be atteHlptea'
by petty tyrans, TO thrust down he hroats OF ifes
people one and all of the persons thus named ana 10
shackIe and enchan those rational feelings of repug-
nance which intelligence and virtue may entertain TO
aportion. &c
This is not question OF party-lt - a quesuoh -
moral sentiment, of public decency-oi me hfs' plh
cinles on which hang society and civil zatlen. The
Broadway club, forgetting that they were seiecung
candidates for an intelligent community have, npre-
IF UoyIp
outraged those principles which guard the sacred
laws from invasion and contempt If the public meet
ing tonight sanction in silence these nomna-
Mons the moral feelings of this great community Will
have sanctioned the whole of that extraordinary
drama that BEGAN with the seduction OF poor young
innocent woman in the State of Maine, and the escape
Of her paramour and murderer the famous uggle OF
last year. But not only this inevitable CONCLUSION
will follow the silent appreciation OF this nemina'ion,
il will also sanction that state OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
crime and domestic horrors, revealed IN that dePle-
rable iugge, Of which Rosina Townsend was the
prestess and the presiding spirit and several young
merchants OF responsibility" the mnlstering angels
Let us net deceive ourselves
lfan open, unthinking, criminal disregard be shown
towards the mysterious moral essence which keeps
society together, how will the nation tsef-the
very soul OF great people be debauched, ruined and
reduced to the lowest state of conempt IN the eyes OF
the world We do not even put IN this scale, as
weighing feather, the conduct of Joseph Hone, ia
cob Acker and others in the corporation, by whose
peicy the prices of provisions have been kept up to
rke poor-the beings of our own driven from
shores TO die on the hot sands of taxes Of
the city nearly doubled in six months-the laws and
ordinances Of the municipal government only framed
10 make the rich richer and the poor poorer We say
fall hat lie of
Hoxie Acker e. Co., have been gully during their
short public life. These evils of practical char
acter which may be corrected in time.
But should great public assembage of free, intel
lpent intellectual and elevated men, governed by the
highest tone of morals and refinement animated by
the pure.t principles Of religion and Of philosophy
should they sanction outrage upon the sacred IN
s,itutions of civilizations, and accept without muir
u,ur ALL the impudent nominations made at Broad.
way House. wedesrc them TO look TO their children,
10 their families their happy homes-to the long and
lsmentabe effects that have been produced in every
country, by disregardng public decency and moral
propnety.
Toward. many of the names on that ticket we en-
terrain sentiments of esteem and respect Gulian c.
Vorplanck, David b. Ogden, and several others,
would do honor to any otIice-any station. But TO
get them, are free people to swallow outrage with
out wry face and call II sweet sugar candy III
cannot be.
In the great civil, moral, commercial and political
revolution which is marching onward in this country
and tshch noe me first to sci in motion, it has
been the object of freedom and of intelligence TO break
down the porter house behests and gin shop de-
crces Of that portion of the people whose head quar-
ters was Tammany Hail. The system of passive
obedience to the npudent dictaton of convention,
Is but another form of tyranny and oppression The
free mind startles at the atrocious attempt and per-
hsps the principal Of the rapid degradation Of
the democratic faction of the government is the dar
ing npudence to shackle the mind and TO bind down
thought their ridiculous regular nominations. Are
the intelligent people who meet al Masonic Hall o.
night ready to give in their adhesion the very sys
tenn which 10 90 ntrocieus in the fraternity of Tamma
N.Y. Will the ten thousand thinking moral indie
pendent scntent beings give up their thoughts-their
purposes TO miserable clique of pal
try intrgxers at Broadway House, who have the mo-
desy to ask them endorse their outrages justice
propriety and moral feeling1
In order save the election of Gslian G. verplank
and his worthy associates it is necessary TO strike
from their association, such names Joseph Hoxie,