The southern press., 1850-11-01
Portraits of New York Society and Politics
with free pencil

We take the following sketches of New York
politics and society from the Herald and COM
mend them to the new Virginia politicians, who
think that the greatness and power of state
are to be obtained by dense population.
The system of agitation or demoralizing sub
jects, of.which the slavery question is the last
and most dangerous, was commenced in this
region about quarter of 4 century ago, and has
ragged with more or less fury, and embraced a
greater or less circuit in politics, religion, and in
social affairs, to the present time 1t was COM
mcnced in the crusade which Weed and his as
sociate demagogues began against masonry in
which that benecient institution was used for
the furtherance of Il political party. Since then
it hns taken II wide range, and embraced the abo-
ltion Of slavery, the dissolution of the marital
tie and of the marriage ceremony, the placing of
women on II political equality with men; it has
also embraced socialism, Fourerism, communism,
assocatonsm, womans rights conventions, in
fidelity, blasphemy, agrarianism anti-rentism
animal magnetism, biology, spiritual knockngs,
and impostors, Of every other kind and descrip-
tion--tor full particulars of which, we refer our
readers to the columns Of that choice sheet, the
New York Tribune. At the conventions, and
meetings, and anniversaries of those psuedo re.
unholy, irrelgious, obscene, revolutionary and
disgusting, are from time to time uttered, which
would almost incline the moralistand philosopher
to believe that the world had been turned over
to Satan, and that the Prince of Darkness held
unlimited sway over it. 1t was only the other
day that the socialists at their fifty cent banquet
in Hoboken, asserted the necessity of erecting
the gulotine in our midst as remedy for the
evils which they stated characterized society 1t
was but n short time since it was put to vote
whether the Saviour was or not more than man
Our columns q day or two since, contained q
report of woman's rights convention, at which
women unsexcd themselves, and behaved i'm a
most disgusting manner; tore the breeches off
the men, and encased their own limbs with them.
These free and Independent reformers, in petit
coats, wish to grasp the prcrogatives which
Nature herself has conferred on manhood as
theinidels want to clutch, with their sacrilegeous
hands, the thunderbolts of Jovc--the very om-
impotence of Heaven
The manner in which many Of our primary
elections are conducted, by both parties, has
long been subject of complaint and sorrow to
the intelligent and moral portion of the conmu-
nifty in this metropolis. Rowdyism, corruption,
bribery, stool -pigeonsm, and criminal influence
of every kind, have been developed MS nstru-
ments in getting up conventions for the purpose
of nominating candidates who are wholly unfit
and incompetent to occupy the offices for which
they are named, and unworthy of the suffrages
of the intelligent people of this city. The
Democrats are not more guilty in this respect
than the Wings, and the evils of which we
speak have been acknowledged by the organs of
both, to the fullest extent They have been in
creasing for years past, and have now reached
the highest point of criminal developement. In
fact, if stop be not put to them, and the pre-
liminary movements connected with our cleo
tons be conducted as they have been for some
years past, we would not be at all surprised to
see, at some future time, committees appointed
to nominate only such men US have graduated in
our State prisons or penitentiaries, or make it
necessary to send authorized agents abroad to
bring back, for the purpose of receiving the suf-
frages of the people of New York, such men as
Thomas Warner, and others Of his stamp to fill
high judicial situations The character of some
Of the nominations made at the primary cleo
tons, by the Wings and Democrats, is equally
bad and discreditable to the party that made
them, and to the community that tolerate them.