The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-27

wen acquainted with the manner in which business
Of all kinds is transacted in the classic neghborhood
Of the Five Points; but whether such experience will
enable them to legisate understandingly for
the interests Of the State aud city, question which
we will leave contemporary to reply to. II such
experience is necessary to make good Legislators we
have thousands and tens of thousands OF our de-
graded population who ought to occupy the seats
which our quondam legislators now hold IN the cap-
tol in Albany.
Locking at the moral aspects of this new aboli-
ton movement there can be no doubt that this was
the most singular conjunction Of the Legislature
and the Common Council THAI took place
between any legislative bodies. 1t will cost the city
from thirty forty thousand dollars, and the scenes
which were exhibited would disgrace even the Five
Points, and directly tend to make subjects for the
very peAtentary ON Blackwclls Island which the
two bodies visited But what else could be expected
from such unionl What else could be expected
from such body the New York Common Coun-
Gil who have shown themselves enemies to the public
interests, and who, among numerous other in
stances OF corruption, passed the infamous gas
contract-who always, and for reasons best known
to themselves bartered away the rights of their con-
stituents and are regardless Of public opinion!
What else, too, could be expected from wing
abolition Legislature, whose conduct has been as
bad and as suspicious, during the present session, as
that Of the New York Common Council for We
satisfied that ifthe curtain raised, should
scenes of corruption, extravaganza, and folly in the
unreported legislation at Albany, that would starte
the community, and nearly persuade the people Of
the State Of New York to throw the whole batch Of
them into the North river.
All these discreditable, doings by both Of these
bodies are however fur less potent in their injurious
effects on both the city and the State, than the
project which is now entertained to place William
III. Seward at the head of the whig abolition candi-
dates for the presidency and in endeavorng to make
him chief magistrate of this nation, through the
anti-slavery element Of the North. The support
and probable election Of such man. with such
principles as he avows, and under such crcum-
stances surround him, would in few years, bea
death blow to the Union. Such dcplorable catas-
trophc might indeed occur before such election;
for it is easy TO that such sentiment
were manifested in the Northern States there would
be a determination formed, not only in South Caro-
lima, but throughout the whole Southern country,
feuty and disunion, and eventually PROSTATE this
public in the dust Notwithstanding these omnous
signs ofthe times, the intelligent merchants and peo-
pie of New York, and of the commercial cities and
in the interior, quietly and blindly submit
ting to such state Of things by such demagogue
as Seward, aided and assisted by such editors and
journals, and such influences, we have mentioned.
How much longer will they indulge in this unac-
eountable apathy!
THE Police GAZErTE-WARNIyG TO News
BOYS AND News AGEyrS.-Wilkes, the runaway
convict. has announced, in the congenia organ Of
the former Plainfeld plunderers, that he intends, in
the most savage style, to walk into the court,
judges, and jury, at Poughkecpsic, who recently
tried. convicted and would have sentenced him,
had he fed from the hands Of Justice. Ii i quite
probable, therefore, that the next number OF the
Poice Gd-dfc will contain number of atrocious
libels upon the intelligent citizens and authorities
in poughkccpsie, the circulation Of which may in
yoye every one connected with the distribution of
that paper. News boys aud news agents cannot be
too careful in avoiding the penalty Of tenerty in
opposing the law, by not being parties to the offence.
Ii may be remembered that Dexter l. Brother were,
not long since indicted in fine Of f,ro huairaf an
tfty dollars, for merely selling the Police GI-dte
which contained violent libels on some Of our best
citizens. The warning i that should not be
overlooked for all the news boys and agents being
liable, true wisdom calls every one to let the
dangerous sheet alone. News boys and agents are
not the only in jeopardy, We learn that the
printers, publishers, and paper makers of this same
Journal are ALEC, likely to have trouble, they
participate in the profits which are to be derived
IL.
at Poughkeepse. Wilkes, who has fed. will be
able to issue hs sheet through the aid Of those who
share with him in the profits Of publication, though
unless he escapes to foreign parts, he is liable to be
caught at any moment, a. the able officer Mr..
Bowyer, with competent assistants, i now on his
trail
While we give this scasonable advice to the new.
boys and news agents, which we hope will Be useful
to them. We are also pleased to tell them of the
Sunday ErG-started ia this city some time ago, and
conducted with great efficiency and much talent.
Particularly N Is slqGdal;gg Of ste9lpgeon rnvss
rics, carried on by the corrupt priests Of that
corsauni,y, with Wilkcs as chief eMounicr and
copjurot-will contain, the coming week, IL Is
sad, very tull exposition Of the practices under
this now almost exploded system Of mock-norality
and order and II VII &c On admirable substitute
therefore, for the dangerous Pcy,ce Ga-ate because
il will tcnd to cs-ts,c clearly the motives and means
adopted by Wilke. aud his associates to make
.how Of dccency before the public.
A. for Wilkes himself nothing more need be said
than that the supremacy II the law will BE- main
tanned If he can be found ia New Jersey or any
other state. rcquisition, We learn has been made
for him. and It !. quite certain that he will b.
brought up for bis sentence within a short period
uncs. he has made hi. escape out Of the country.
Al the necessary arrangements we're completed yc.-
torday, Cor the purpose Of showing that person con-
ycted u offence l. TO set himself up A. court
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