New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-09
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ennilnuo without mobilization. NO should have ~
record ma,dets frguaf productions we do lbo'e
of Tho notorious annmnf aud ieomng autumn Thsre
ate nov waiting for tidal ~ murder beoro Tho Court oi
! oyer aud ferinlnnr In this CITY, eighteen persons
! rhia nonsifous number seems beyond belief. and had
NO not tho rsidcfcc Of tho fact unicr our eyes, wc
should be- sow 10 believe II from moro hcarany The
worat feature IN tho matter H. TINT tho prisoners are
described generally respectable looking mon Their
nnmca are Louis DE Corn, for shooting Eugene
Melville; Cornelius Collins, Timothy Hogan, James
McArdc. and Albert A. Dogart for killing William
Stafford In Frcnchs Hotel James Smith, for stabbing
James Davis; james Fox, William Oman, John Wade,
ard Edmund Mnhoney for killing Henry Osborne
janice l.. Hoare causing the death of Susan Mean
many: Woodson Anderson colored man, for killing
John Branagan; Thomas Kline for killing his wife with
an ax-said to be lunatic John Doscher, for killing
Patrick McNuty Charles Thomas for killing Michael
LAWYER; John Price, for killing Samuel Freeman;
Augustus Kreutzer, for killing John Daniel Kotting
Henry Carmel, for murder
There were during period of year lately as many
murders save two, committed in the City of Newly
as were in all England in the same period To what
must we dltllDute
yet continuing as the above crimson list shows
Tit answer 10 this is not difficult. 1t is the fright
fully loose government of this City. The laws seem
either relaxed destroyed far that ignorance and
violence take upon themselves to revenge their
wrongs, OF in mere wantonness to wreak murder on
the heads of the inofensve. We have only TO look at
the seed.planting of ruffianism in the Park, IN
der the caves Of the Halls of Justice, to find
for the ferocous and frequent murders which now dis
tinguish New York beyond every other city in Chris
tendon. There IS a law against firing cannon in the
City but how is it obeyed There is no political namy
perpetrated, not even the liberation of convict,
which is not weekly sometimes daily, celebrated
By coarse teu de joe Of such fring-the occasion
being embraced for the cream of rowdyism to
assemble as at an orgy Boys of six years old and up
ward are regularly ndoctrnated into blackguardism
from the bonfire orgies Of Tammany Hall They meet
togetber-dance round the hames-march in order
and use language that would make saint or seraph
shudder Every day, and all day, and all night
thousand drinking places open to naame debauch,
and render wild muttudes of young men aud
although there is law to close these foul resorts
Sundays the law is despised though it existed not
There ID law passed to keep the streets Clean and
immense sums, far greater than those of any other
City in the world are set apart for the purpose yet
the filthy swndling scoundres whose business it is to
keep tie streets in pure condition leave them I'M
cleaned year in and out until cumuated fifth and pes
entia orders are the chronic scOurge and shame Of
tie City. This wild license of those in authority;
this chain-gang robbery on the part Of func-
tonaries; this studied contempt o: duty, acts
certainly on the conduct of the masses. They
learn to despse those in authority instead of respect
ing them. They learn to look upon laws as mperti-
nences and inyasions of personal liberty instead of
the bonds which hold society together In physolog-
ica point of view, the impurty of the streets
the carbon church-yard smells which come from
the quarters where the lower classes veis enough TO
brutslize the standard of interior domestic lle and
level the people TO the rank of brutes hayng both the
filth and the ferocy Of the animal untamed. As for
the dram-shops which are kept open in low NewYork,
they are alone sufficient to account for the murders
The number of murders-so terrible and unequaled
should cause to ask ourselves whether the law of
capital punishment has the nhibtoy quality assigned
to il. We have had some four executions this year,
yet have eighteen persons before the Court of
Oyer and Terminer for this crime. Ponder this fact,
and Judge if killing be the best way to prevent murder