The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-10

spair Of any amendment under this system. The
only alternative IL, then, the establishment Of well
regulated national printing Office, for the execution
Of tho printing Of Congress and all the departments
of the government. We trust that they who have
taken the matter In hand will hold fast, and per-
severe, and continue to persevere, till the great
object is accomplished Thus We shall stop at
least one source Of party bribery and political COR
ruption. The Lord prosper the good work.
PROGRESS OF THE TKEToTAL MovEMENT.-This
evening, at Metropolitan Hall, there is to be
grand rally of all the friends of the new teetetal
movement, to urge forward the chariot Of moral
and political reform, and to countersct the mach.
nations Of the rumsellers and the managers of the
primary elections. Among the speakers on this
OCCASION will be Rev. Messrs. Tying, Peck, Patton,
and Chaplin, with Hon E. d. Culver, and the re-
doubtablo John Hawkins, the reformed drunkard,
and candidate fer the dictatorship of the Alliance
The charge at the door is to be only one shilling,
which is to save the necessity Of q collection. IL
will be observed that the array Of clergymen, whose
names are mentioned above, are among the most
eloquent and distinguished in the city, and every
thing indicates an imposing demonstration.
Thus the movement goes ahead, gathering
strength and enlisting converts in its progress. 1t
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looks towards the reform Of vice, the abolition Of
drunkenness, the total overthrow of all drinks
stronger than cold water, and the utter extipation
Of the accursed sinking weed tobacso. The other
aspect looks to the control of tho primary elections
and the nominations, and the possession Of the
spoils, power, and influence of office Two classes
Of men, therefore, enter into this movement
one section Of the whig politicians arrayed under
4 Lnru IS crJ kho Norr
the other the sincere teetotallers and moral reform
enthusiasts, who expect to make this sinful Gotham
kind of New Jerusalem. Either of these classes
is too weak by itself to accomplish its objects, and
they form holy alliance for mutual assistance and
support. If the politicians will aid tho total alb
stainers, both clergy and lsity, to dethrone King
Alcohol, they, in turn, will help the politicians to
i" the loaves and fshes." Such is the entente cor
dial between them.
Besides these two classes, there is third class
who will favor the movement-men who are neither
politicians, nor fanatics, nor teetotalers, but o
quiet, respected class of citizens, who, for years.
have been practically deprived of tho exercise Of
their votes by the rum and rowdy influences which
regulated the primary elections and the nomina-
tons, and left nothing for the mass Of the people to
do but to blindly follow the dictaton Of the wire
/ pulleIb, duu ucpOnit tuoH VOtob III tuo UALOI
box. Some ele,tors have actually, through
vexation, voted for the opposite party, while
others have kept tirely aloo and not voted at all
These men, Influenced much by the same feelings
as the order party in France, who sustain the 60
vernment of Louis Napoleon because they think
it saves them from the horrors Of revolution and
anarchy, will accept dsliverance from the dospot-
ism Of the mob, and the anarchy Of the primary
elections, almost at any price and any sacrifice,
even to the deprivation of social glass of wine,
their cigar, toba box-anything, in short, to
get rid of the odious tyranny, which they regard
in as horrible light as they would despotism in
the government itself. Every man feels that,
singe-handed, he is unable to cope with the evil,
and that it is not worth his while to neglect his
business or to encounter the risk Of life and limb,
by Offering it his individual resistance. Thus, ac-
cording to the old adage, "what is everybody's
business is nobody's business" and the anomaly
of o despotc power ruling in the midst Of . free
country, by physical force and violence, stimulate
by the appliances of strong drink, is allowed to 60
on, from dsy to day, till it has become almost q
prescriptive right, and is confirmed By "the usages
of party" Regarding this in,periYm in impaio,
therefore, as case Of desperation, these peaceful
citizens will gladly cooperate with the new tom
PeIdACe uOVemene, ~ get ru VI w ana 70 pc placed
in the position which the constitution has conferred
every oitizen-the unfettered right of voting for
the best men to fill public Offices.
And there is every prospect of the success Of the
Alliance. No doubt it will DO opposed to the
death by the rumselers, by the whig ofioeholders,
and that section Of politicians who manage the cleo
tions through the primary meetings. and these
meetings through DULLES and grog. But the moral
and religious weight Of the community, together
with the fanatiss viii be all on the other side, and
will probably send the scale Of the rum party high
in Dir. This movement is not only temper
ance organization, embracing the whole State, but
it is system of agitation which will be kept up
whether the Maine liquor law is passed this ses-
sion not and it will extend into the Presidential
election, and exert influence upon that. 1t will
disorganizs the whig party overthrowing the pre-
sent managers, wire.puers, and undo rtakers-it
will rescue the primary meetings from the rum
faction, and Greeley and Co. will put up their friends
next fall, ard probably get them nominated
Thus great political and moral reform ia In fair
way of being accomplished, and the five thousand
rum sellers in this city, and their numerous ramif-
cations Of friends, seem doomed to utter discomf-
ture Already some of them are chewing the bitter
cud Of despair, and are paring to sell out, while
their occupation is not yet gone, and they get
anything for their "good will Of the business y
Others, however, are more undaunted, and are or
ganizing an extensive and powerful opposition
All that money can do will be tried, and if they
fail, it will not 90 without tremendous struggle
Their bread, their living their all, depends upon
the issue. Victory trombles in the balance Which