The New York herald., 1851-08-23

Tm RECENT ArrrRENr OUrRAes--WnAr Is
TO BE DONE I've published, yesterday, q copy
Of the proclamation issued by Washington Hunt,
Governor Of this State, offering reward Of
Eve hundred dollars. TO be paid to any Of the per-
sons who were engaged in the offence of forcibly
taking Mr.. Hiram : haw from his residence in Ber-
lin, Rensselaer, y the night Of the sixteenth
instant, and tarrng nd featherng him, if they in
form on the others.
This dastardly and cowardly outrage has created
q tremendous excitement throughout the State,
and the public are unanimous in demanding of the
Governor and of the authorities that they shall
leave no means untred to ferret out and bring to
justice the rufians who committed it, People at a
distance will hardly believe that such an oc c,urrence
could take place in the State of New York, which
boasts much of its progress and high standing in
the cOnfederacy, without the perpetrators being
promptly arr ested and punished according to law.
Notwithstanding the offer Of five hundred dollars
reward, however, and of executive clemency being
extended to those who nay give information as to
the parties who consisted the deed, it is very
doubtful if they will be discovered or that the ring
leaders will be brought to justice. The antrenters
are organized into bodies, with passwords and
signs known only to themselves, and it is more than
likely that they are sworn not to divulge any of
their proceedings to tho uninitiated, or to in
form on each other 1t will be a difficult matter
therefore, to bring them to justice. Every at
tempt, however, should be made to do so, and
We trust that the authorities of Rensselaer, county
will employ all the means at their disposal to
effect it. 1t is hardly credible that body of men,
organized for the purpose of deyng the law, should
be allowed pursue their iniquities so long the
anti renters have done in this State, without their
being broken up and consigned to the State prison.
Yet we have seen them continue from year to year,
violating the law, shooting down sherifs while in
discharge Of their duties and tarring aud feather
ing all who dare to serve process upon them. The
public may thank the socialists of this city for the
commencement of this organization and the poll
ticians and Governor Young for its continu ance
The anti-renters received aid, and assistance, and
encouragement in every shape, from the socialists
when they first entered upon their unlawful career;
and when some of the ringleaders were, at q great
expense to the State, tried, found guilty, and SEN
fenced to prison for number of years, they were
released by the then Governor Of the State, who
was elected to Office partly by antrenr votes The
lesson thus taught them was, consequently, Of no
avail, and by reason Of the want of frmness dis
PAaytu W sho Oh lAal OCCASION, tle anti
renters soon again became formidable. From one
ster they proceeded to another, and length went
so far as tear a man eighty years of age from his
bed, in the dead of night, and tar and feather him.
for the crime Of fulfilling the law.
Now, we would ask the Governor Of the
State, and the administrators of the law, whether
or not they are determined upon using all necessary
measures for the arrest Of the persons who com
mitted this last outrage and whether they have
determined upon preventing a recurrence of it by
all the means in their power The people will in
sist that no method shall be left untried to bring
these scoundrels tOjustce and they will require of
Governor Hunt, no matter what the expense may
be. that be shall call out the military to all the
authorities in vndicatipg the law, and, Unnecessary,
declare the county of Rensselaer, in a state OF in
surrection so as to put down the insurgents There
should be no more honeyed words used to the anti
renters; on the contrary, they should be dealt
with as harshly as possible and they should be sho.
down if they Go not submit. We have, indeed,
fallen upon evil times, If handful of anti-renters
set the law and its officers at defiance with in
punity in this State