The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-09

Another Letter to the Mayor.-Bishop Hughes
OutdOne.
TO JANIS HARPER, ksQR., MAYOR OF NEW YORK.
HONORABLE SIR -
Being aware that you have been invested with
the official station you hold, tor the purpose OF ~;
ling up all the sinks of iniquty. and ieveliing all
the mountains of atrocities in this city CT Gotham
for which task we beg God he will endow you with
The strength OF Hercules, we the undersigned,
committee OF Native Americans, in behalf OF our
selves and fellow beings, also come TO you humbiy
Deggins TOR protection against the most absnrd nm
mented, tyrannica land brutal persecution to which
our poor race has ever been exposed, by ungraeiui
mankind. We trust that the examplcof high and
mighty Bishop, may sufficiently excuse our taking
this step to get our grievances abated.
Your honor is aware that law disgraces this city
by which our poor abused race is, during part Of
the year, cruelty knocked on the head and put to
death by some beastly, dastardly niggers, and
of white mlscreants, 10 the great grievance OF our
beloved masters as well as ourselves. We cannot
imagine what has subjected us, who always have
been the best friend and truest servant OF the hu
man species TO such cruel treatment, for which
no sound reason can be imagined. II cannot be
for political considerations, like SO many other In
EQUITIES committed here, because every body must
give us evidence that we always were too proud
TO NEEDLE with politics. never votes one way or the
other, and never will We are not made tor poll
tlcans; our nature is cling devotedly tO.Our mas
ter, whether he gives fat office not; and If
he is too poor to Afford us much, we know how to
provide for ourselves, and nevertheless dsinteres
eddy serve him, watch his property, and starve
with him Ii he has to do so, and many oil us even
| sustain masters by their services. Some imm-
grated individuals amongst US have suggested that
Justly for these qualifications of dlsinteresed alice
tion, fidelity and truth, whereof we are the sym
boil secret antipathy existed against us IN The ma
| ture OF the natives OF this county, but we have
spurned this suggestion with the indgnlty 1t me-
rlts, as calumnious and untrue.
No occupation, such as against our relatives, the
us, because not meddiing with politics nor banks,
We never can come IN situations where we can
steal much. and if some, hungry fellow once filches
mouthtul, it is but hooking, which is too common
habit here to be visited with such awful perse-
cutlon. Some reproach us with being noisy; but,
honorable Mayor! is the occasional barking of
merry or the plantive cry of poor ill treated dog,
SO much worse than the continual uproar and yelt-
ing of fruit sellers, fish trumpets, oyster bawlers,
coal paddys, newspaper, boys, or the blasphemous
" God damns'' OF small and big rowdes, on SO
many corners during night and day? And yet there
is no knock on the head law against them, nor
even strike on the a-law, which certainly would
be more usefn IN every respect than the killing Of
poor innocent dogs.
sans ceremonie, is, that we are liable to get mad
better said rabd) But, honored Sir there isvery
lutte IN that accusation that holds good In favor OF
this cruel law. We must repeat, that we do not
NEEDLE with politics or theology, and are therefore
free from some of the principal causes OF madness
But we acknowledge that we are by nature SUB
Iect to an ailing, the nature and signs OF which
very little understood In this country, whilst Its
dangers are awfully magniied and misTepresented,
much more than any stateme mt ever put forth In
political stump speech, and not one poor fellow ou
Of twenty, pretended mad dogs killed, had ever
been rabid. But popular ignorance Is such, that u
poor fellow, astray from his master, runs through
the streets with tail drawn in and frightened look
there goes the hue and cryof all bad dog!
brickbat and sticks till to his death blow, and all
the slang wangers next day make a hubbub about
mad dogs running about It some sprlghtless,
thoughtless pup, going out with his master, dances
rabid dog never does,) o. how the nursery
| maids and old women, some even with pants
IN, get frightened and run up the next stoop !!
Now we are Just enough, not TO expect that
old women and young loaters should know
| much about such things, but We believe that We
can expect that men, who get themselves up as
lawgivers should know more Of their subject, OF
ask for information first before making such rldicu
lous laws. But as 1t seems that those that made
this regulation were parcel OF old women-we
may be allowed to give to those from whom the
maintenance OF 1t depends, little better lnforma-
ion, and to show them Its after faliaciousness
Three things the principal causes OF this unhsp
py aillng, which betalls us but very seldom and In
al! seasons-vlz; anxiety of mind, 1--WE have
mind too, and well constituted we assure you)
want of water, and want of occasional satisfaction
of certain sexual propensity. Now, according
to this ridiculous law, we shall not go about but
with muzzle on, 80 that u poor feilo" gets
as,rsy from his home, and is Of course anxious and
frightened, he cannot drink neither. although the
streets are full OF water-and would Just be ex-
| posed to become rabid-lawfly. O! wise men OF
Gotham or we shall stay at home locked III with.
out any occasion Of satisfying that certain natural
demand. Pray, honored sir! what would the Ms
G. at w. or MS A. at A., or the u. d. 8 all over
say, if such a law was made against them, and
don't you think that muzzie would there be often
much for the expediency of the law made TO favor
Just what it shall prevent. There is something to
be said too about the justice Of the law. Suppose
man had been killed or wounded by an Irish.
man Would you then have all freshmen found
running about hung up? But no Perhaps one
poor dog in thousand might get rabid, and, there
fore, 900 who would never be SO must be killed.
U just men of Gotham! Further--dOes the exc
cuton OF such cruel laws not teach the young hope
ful native Of your species-unnecessary cruelty to
animals-of which there is here SO much
perpetrated already, as to demand rather laws
70 prevent it, and not TO legalize 1t :
And yet you pretend to be christlans-c christians
who should recognize in every living ben3 fellow
creature Of the same all benignGod that made them,
| and gave them equal right to life, where not OBJ
noxIous;who should never kill without necesstythe
poorest worm, or temper with mercy the necessity
OF killing--who should ever recoect that :" no
sparrow fasfrom the roof without thewlll OF God ="
But you make unnecessary killing lawful-you
teach the young cruelty to animals which always
| engenders cruel disposition towards their own
species, likewise only waiting hit opportunity IN
the life OF the indlvda to break forth and cause
strife and bloodshed moral men OF Gotham
Some of our learned ones have yet suggested
another hearing of this law, saying that there
was something which you men call constitution,
and make great thing of, which guarantees To-
| every body undsturbed possession OF his property
But we believe that this is masters affair
more than ours, whose property is by This law
taken away without as much as saying-with your
Ieave-and it seems to us that this so called cOnstl
tuition must be poor concern, if parcel Of block.
heads can make laws right in its 1eeth against
its fundamental provisions But we will leave this
to our masters, as We do not like to NEEDLE with
what we do not fully understand, and therefore do
not intend ever to run any of US for Aldermen or
Assemblymep either. But to you, we appeal in the
name Of justice, morality, and expediency, and
common sense. Look we'll Mr.. Mayor! whether
in that big hole into which you will have to entomb
little corner left for this most barbarous law. Make
another if you will, that fany person having dog