The New York herald., 1849-06-12


bills of exchange at sight the kingdom of
heaven.
MODERN REPoRMERs.-TnErR CONSISTENCY
We have frequently taken occasion to point out
| the glanng Inconsistencies and incongruties
which the would-be philosophers and reformers
every shade and dye in this region, are guilty of,
| in their advocacy of the peculiar reforms in law,
| morals, society, government, and everything else,
| which they take up for the time being, and then
| throw away child treats sixpenny bauble,
after has ceased to attract4 4rs attention. Those
Inconsistencies and incongrues characterize, in
! a remarkable degree, the conduct of their high
priest or head devil, Massa Greeley and his jour
nal, the New York Tribune, each issue of which
contains sufficient evidence OF the crack k-brained-
ness of the reformers which represents, to satisfy
| any well regulated mind.
| 1t is well known that the Tribune took decided
stand in approving of the imbecity of the city
authorities, in managing, or rather msmanaging,
the riot which led 10 the massacre Of twenty -four
innocent people, in front of the Astor Place Opera
| House, IN obedience to the behests of few indi-
viduals, some respectable, and some not respecta-
| BILE, composing the left wing OF that order or
branch of New York society generally known by
the very appropriate and very expressive term Of
Goldfish aristocracy. Those individuals, under the
impression that they, par excellence, were the
mighty men of the land, the favored few, who, by
successful speculations in Goldfish and moasses,
repudiated the counter, and, in one bound, Jumped
from the shop or the counting house to the pima
Gle OF arlstocracy, were more deserving of impor-
tance than five times their number of the lower
orders forsooh, and that because they desired
that mountebank pay-ac,or should perform
for their satisfaction and qualification, the whole
civil and military power of the city and
county should be brought to their assistance,
although it would be disagreeable to a large
and equally respectable portion Of their ellow-citi
zens, for the actor we have referred to to again
make his appearance. Their behests were attend
ed to and the consequence was, that innocent in
dlvlduals, who, few minutes previous to the sad
and terrible catastrophe, left their firesides and
the company of their wives and families, were shot
down, and their blood shed in the streets of their
own metropolis. In the imbecty exhibited by
the authorities, in not averting preventing that
catastrophe, and in their orders to shoot down un-
offending and innocent people, which were the
natural consequence of that imbeciity, the Goldfish
aristocracy and the authorities aforesaid have had
defender and supporter in the New York Tribune.
No later than yesterday, it published long and
artfuly written defence of that Wholesale massacre
Of innocent citizens while In another part of the
same sheet lachrymose appeal against the
propriety of executing an Incendiary, who was ar
rested in the act, tried by unprejudced jury, ac-
cording to law, and found guilty of applying the
torch to a habitation occupied by number ofmen,
women, and children, in the most densely pspu-
lated portion of our city. 1t Hinveighed, in its usual
style, against TIE law which condemns to death,
| ri a.,
in his heart, fires building and jeopardizes the
lives of a number of unofending people and the
property of our taxpayers while, in the same
breath, it supports the authorities in their imbe-
cility in the Astor Place tragedy, and yindicates
| the shooting down of twenty.four unohfending
citizens in order to support fraction of our popu.
lation in the maintenance of an usurped and alto
gether Fictitious influence in the community.
Thus, in the case the dreadful loss of life oc-
casloned by the catastrophe in Astor Place, Is
nothing but the death of an incendary, tried and
convicted according to law, and of whose guilt,
even if he never made confession, which he has
done, not even the shadow of doubt could be en-
tertained, is everything. The whole machinery
and working Of our institutions must be set aside.
for the purpose of saving the life of an incendiary,
caught in the act Of firing building; but the loss
oi'iho vi t"euty-iouI unoHenulnS people Is as no
| thing in the balance.
This is fair sample of the consistency which
charaeterizes the journal we have referred to. and
OF the pseudo philanthropists and reform.rs whose
sentiments 1t reflects. What encouragement it
afiords-what temptations it holds out for the peo.
pie OF this prosperous and happy commonwealth,
TO change their system of society, reorganize the
framework of their laws, and with a hop, skip,
and jump, take bound into that deectabe para
disc OF absurdlty, which those modern reformers
have in their mind, as cure for all the evils that
afiilct mankind, preventive against empty
somachs, and a panacea for rents in old coats
and breeches Fudge-all fudge.