The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-10
The New York Tribune denying it's Dis
ciples, and lodging Responsibility

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The New York Tribune denying it's Dis
ciples, and lodging Responsibility.
The recent riot in New York, terminating as it
did in bloodshed, and leaving an exasperated
state Of feeling behind which threatens more
mischief, tends to confirm the truth of our
comments on the dangers of that social system.
One of the most significant symptoms of the
diseased state Of the public mind, and the dread
OF the disorganizers, is evinced in the manner in
which this outrage has been slurred over by the
city press. Most of those which have mentioned
| it at all, instead of using the language of stern
apprehension, and yindicating the triumph of
law and order-seeking to palliate and extenu-
| ate the offence, and screen the offenders. With
| the precedent Of the disgraceful Astor House
riots fresh ntheirrecolection these public guar
dams of the public morals cant, and whine, and
shuttle about misguided and ignorant men at
tempting the elevation of labor By a wrong pro-
cess, and advise them to behave better in future
for their own sakes, and the cause of Labor
| Reform.
| The Tribune, true to its instincts, contains
very characteristic article in relation to these
riots, in which it seeks to break the force of the
blow it cannot ward off, by offering up few
poor foreigners with no friends or influence, as
scapegoats to satisfy Justly irritated comInu-
nifty, while saddling all the sin on the System
which they assaulted.
| Pecksniff, himself could not equal the suboined
editorial, nor Joseph Surface, give utterance to
such fine sentiments" Hear the Tribune on
the Tailors: NJ
| The Tailors-Labor Reform.
! It would be very unjust to blame the whole
body of German Tailors in our city for the
crimes committed in their name on Monday still
less would it be right to attribute those offences
to the whole body of Tailors. The Tailors Of
our city are mainly divided into three classes
! the American, the Irish and the German; and
only u small portion of the latter were engaged
in the riotous outrages in o,Thirty-eighth-str ct
on Monday. These were m iny recent lmmi-
grants, knowing very little Of our language,
customs or laws with those crude and imper-
feet IDEAS of Liberty which would make it con-
sist practically in ability to fog the Police the
Magistrates and the Military if need be, instead
of being curbed aud controlled by them. This
| feafully distorted idea of Freedom, the fruit of
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Degradation, was grossly and crimnaly appealed
to on Saturday by one or more speakers Gin
Germany at the Mass Meeting ofworking men in
the Park to sympathize with the Tailors now on
a Strike, at which meeting open indictments to
violence, bloodshed and revolution were current.
Some wiser working men attempted to address
the excited crowd in different strain, counsel
ing resort to none but legal and pacific meas
ures, but these were promptly silenced and
hustled off by the Infatuated masses. The con-
sequence Of the incendiary harangues of Sat
urday arc seen in the outrsges and crimes Of
Monday.
This concludes the defence Of the Tailors to
the first count of the Indictment against them
as violators of law and order. No one could
suppose that this preacher of peace and pro-
moter of concord declared but short time since,
rather than see a certain measure Of public
policy carried out, he would prefer seeing the
city wrapt in flames, and "a sea of blood rolling
| over the undistnguishabe ruins" But to the
defence. ,o4 4s
The plea is set up that all the Tailors are not
responsible for the riots-that only small por-
ton of German Tailors, ignorant of our Ian
guage, customs, and laws, and recent immigrants,
were the offenders. These victims of European
misrule (poor fellowsD were criminally appealed
to by others in the Park, who infamed them to
riolence in spite of the attempts of wiser working
men to address them in different strain; and
the consequences are seen in the outrages and
crimes of Monday" Nobody is to blame here.
except those one or more speakers" in the
Park, whose names are not given; the victims
of crude and imperfect ideas of liberty are of
course to be compassonated and condoled with,
the one or more speakers Gin Germany
nameless individuals, unknown to verybody, we
suppose, on them are visited with the disar-
proral Of the Tribune
Now without disputing the accuracy of the
Tribune's dissertation on Tailors, and their d.
vision, like all Gaul, ainto three parts
although the conductor of that print is not re-
markable for his patronage or apparent fond
ness for that class Of srtists,) we yet must sug-
gest some deumurers to this very ingenious
whiting away Of the rioters to the little end of
nothing.
1t may be true that the men whose heads were
broken, and who made the hostile demonstra-
ton were foreigners were dupes, were wretched
tools of designing demagogues; but who Sc
duced, instigated and inHamed the passions of
these men to the pitch of frenzy, that vented itself
in open violence? Let the columns of the
Tribune and its coadjutors-the Leading edito-
rails appealing to the prejudices and the passions
of the laboring poor, day after day, week after
week, and month after month; the doctrines pro-
mulgated, and the threats uttered against prop
erty, answer to this question. These riots are
but the ripples on the surface indicating the re-
sstless force of the current sweeping on below.
What the book of Mormon was to the deluded
followers of Joe Smith, the Tribune has been to
all the blind agitators in the country, whether
the destruction of one species of property,
or of oil its landmarks was the object To