New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-04-15
City CorrmptlOns.

Our article OF Saturday on City Reform has
evidently excited attention 10 the evils which
il exposes We learn this from anonymous letters
of abuse, one of them INDUCING in the very harm
less falsehood that VIC propose 10 put down fc'c
grogshops, brothels and gambling houses but let the
gentel ones go on with impuny This would
have been unworthy Of notice blu, for the fact that
our public assalan,s seem compelled 10 indulge in
equally glarins misrepresentation.
The Aneriean Republican tells its readers that
we are repentiag of the course we pursued In the
late Election, and most compacentiy adds that
Ellis regret seems 10 come too late; lie was
swarned. over and over again. ct the FOLLY OF his
course - "Hehas himself TO blame more than any
other man for that slate of things which he seems
(and we cannot doubt his sincerity so deeply 10
deplore," &c. &c.--We cannot see that the absur-
diy Of all these perverslons can at all excuse their
baseness Our article was written expressly 10
show tina, No party organisation Objects erirane0us
TO the Citp eau be erpcctcd 10 gtrc rs real G''d
thorough City Reform True, we illustrated tins
by the case OF the party now coming INTO power,
but the principle applies 10 all parties as clearly 1t
not as fully The Native party, for example, has
been in power through the last year, backed by
much Of the moral sentiment and energy OF our
City Ii was in the fairest position for signaizins
its reign by the exrpa,ion Of Moral Evils OF any
party ever elevated 10 power. And vet our City Is
as full Of Grog-shors, of Broihels, of Gambling
houses this day IA il the day the Natives
came into power We are confident that nine
ten,hs of the Four Thousand GROCERIES OF our City
were open for customers last Sunday, with all the
other dens Of depravity. Where, then, Is the
IL Wr ne
no, finding fault with its agents, We are SIMPLY
illustrating the truth that the CHy can DC 're' sop
eraed oaity by those tcho hare 40 objects 5fgoas MS
good government With those we are ready 10
unite at any time and sink all party distinctions IN
common effort Tor the reform OF City abuses BAT
as long as Party considerations rule IN Charter
Elections, we are for the Wing party and none
other, and when we zee tit 20 regret or deplore
this, Wen let the organ know it,
The otors,ins NcirS chooses TO Misrepreseni
US on another tack 1t INDUCES in string OF false
hoods like the following
"Ths Tribune sees no difference between Keeping no.
tel and keepng e-o;he We 6insh for II that its sense
OF the difference between good and evil Is so ooiase
Spare your bushes, neighbour or appropriate them
to the contemplation of your ialsehoods Your
pretended quotation from us is no better than a
forgery. We have never said any thing about
keeping hotel in this connection. We think
this very laudablc business, though we DENY that
selling Alcoholic Liquors is any necessary OF proper
adjunct Of keeping a hotel But keeping crog,
shes is very dier.n. affair, and il one who keeps
a bro,he pleads that he ought not 10 be punished
for il while his neishbor is allowed 10 keep sros
shop with impuni,y, we don't know how 10 answer
him. though Others may. This ia all we said on
Saturday. Now we will add htle more: We
were down at the steamboat when delegation
from the Rumseers of our City started for Albany
some fifteen DAYS since, and were drawn into dis
cussioa with their spokesmen These, with one
accord, EXPRESSED their uttsr hostility 10 the bl
before the Legislature 10 punish Seduction, Aani,
terry aud the Keeping OF Brothels, and eontended
tha, Bro,hes were necessary evils Ia all great O,es
and must be tolerated, The whole party assen'eo,
openly or by silence, to this doctrine And more :
rhe men who vote against the New Excise bi!wl!
with scarcely an exception, vote against The Dill 10
suppress Brothels.
The News says that The Tribune " be'rays
maryelously ultimate acquaintance with the politics
Of gamblers, and of the in-dwelers OF coriaef's
rroak and the Five Points" Very well; We have
read the history Of the origin and character OF the
I,n,;ye Climb in the Express, and the character OF
i. President in the Ne,cs and Erentng Post, where
CAM Rynders often figures as the Warwick OF
Tsmmany Hail. We have looked also at the vote