Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-02-28
M ORNING HER laid



whole day yesterday, crowds Aocked to our Office,
inquiring for the several editions Of the Herald CIV
ing the particulars as they arrived. Three immense
editions were sold. The subject is also seized upon
by party At the Tammany meeting last evening,
will be seen in the report Of the proceedings in
another column the bloody csterie and bloody paper
Of Wall street were execrated Unless the wings
nj once, all the moral, peaceable, upright honest
hgous portion of the community will leave them.
Call meeting at Masonic Hall. Lose not moment
The election is at hand.
For further particulars, and additional events, see
The Postscript to this days paper.
Public Opinion on the Washington Murder.
The painful sensation excited by the awful CRIME
just perpeirated at Washington by the legislators OF
this country, lnstgated by reprobate and dsgraced
brawler and desperate from this city, has lost no
thing Of lis intensity and other subject fills the
insults or agiates the feelings of the community.
The greatest anxiety Is evinced TO learn every minute
particular OF the bloody deed; and Of the hundreds
with whom we have conversed upon the subject, we
have heard no one express himself but in terms of
deep disgust and Indignation. This sense of out
ragged city was raised 10 an almost unbearabe pitch,
yesterday morning, by clustering and audacous ar.
ncle IN the Courier and Enquirer, jastifying the
atroclous attack upon the laws and the peace of So
Getty and dssecratng the Of honor and chival
~ by their prostitution 10 such Tins shock
ing Perverson Of sense and argument will be
found on our outside page accompanied with other
extracts from the press of the city, more worthy of
rs character, respectful 10 the ties by which
Getty Is held together and resculng this community
from the charge Of apathy connivance with the
doctrine of revenge and blood which, unless instant-
ly checked will convert halls OF legislation INTO a
shambles, and make Golgoha of the land.
This affair in lis personal bearing is frantic ebui-
ton Of the notorious bully whose folly and childish
esgerness for display have brought about melan
choly collision, in which an estmabe life has been
lost the sacro-sanct person Of legislator violated
and a stain fixed upon the wing character which no.
thing sutthe immediate repudiation of all the authors
Of this mischief efiace II in this latter view of
the case that enlarge upon the subject, and press
the folio wing considerations upon the attention of the
community Of this city, and the great whig party,
which, for the reasons We are about to mention,
Stands compromised in the blood outlines Of some
of It's conspicuous partlsans
For several years past the wings have professed to
be engaged in contest for the great principles of
civlberiy, founded upon social order and carrying
this maxim into all the elements OF its organization
II claimed the pure and jealous advocacy Of morals
justice integrity, and equal law, the basis of lis
resistance TO an administration which il alledgec
be the enemy of free government; and all its argu-
ments were deduced from It's religious observance of
every social obligation, and its hostility to every thing
calculated to disturb the peace Of society. II has
strangely happened that many prominent persons
were allied 10 this party, whose general life was dis
tinctly marked with qualities the very reverse OF
those assumed by the whlg party as It's attributes
and from these was created turbulent and aepraved
gang; a selfish, reckless and unpnRcipled coterie,
whose morals, conduct opinions, religion, and whole
tone Of conduct were formed the model Of the
ferrous Aaron Burr whose life was libel rpon his
age and whom every good man execraies rs a de-
mon. These men are covered with pollution, and
their footsteps are crimsoned with blood they set
at nought every religious and social obligation; dis
soue in their lives acknowledging no Law bat self
interest the Catalnes Of their day with all his iend
ish malIgnty, but without the courage Of that an
arch; they stand out from their fellow citizens in
bold relief the objects Of unniteaed dislike, repro
baton, and alarm.
The miserable and degraded organ ofthis desperate
horde is the Courier and Enquirer newspaper, and
tire course has been ommendaion Of not and
malt constant arguer for the institution Of force
and violence for the pacific action Of the laws and
who has capped the climax Of hs personal and poll-
cal infamy by his aggravated mesnness cowardIce,
and audacity which have led 70 the dreadful CRIME
by which the feelings Of all have been 50 agsnIzngly
excited In the midst OF this Christian community,
this same paper comes on; and defends pslisles and
justfes the murdercus act; an appropriate course
for men stained with blood, stepped in sensusny 10
the very drers bankrupt in fortune and character,
and estimating society by their own standard. VIA,
is always uppermost in Their own minds they nave
the effrontery think be rendered palatasle 10
this thinking and well-ordered psbici and that
honor" redeem prohesey and bas,ness and
"chivalry" Justify a Geld ~fal, and deliberate as
sassinaton. Oh! shame where = thy blush Such
journal is 90 incarnad.ned with human gore, that
all the waters Of ocean osuld Hoi wash away the
stain; II IL a grevous insult 10 the csmmnsl,y i pol.
luies gangrene that testers socsiy and tants the
moral atmosphere i y permitted 10 corrupt In sns-
ther age and country the people would nse ss ons
man and expel such mlscreants from 20 bcsems ths
muliituSe would urge Their punishment 40 an erem.
plary atosement; and the building whence they voni
ted theu poison wosld he nzed 10 the rrossd .. de-