The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-01


TO secure for whole community those advantages that
could not be obtained by people acting in their separate
and individual capacity. II should be- fellow citizens
the pride and glory of every American, both native and
adopted, TO make government truly represent the
will, the In erests and honor OF our country ! will not
longer occupy your time, and will introduce you
gentleman altogether more competent t, address you
than myself
During the delivery of Mr. Coopers speech the Sixth
Ward Reform Association headed by NJ s. BEAou entered
the hail. and received with cheers Taey bore trans
psrencies inscribed follows
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These with the American flag, displayed upon the
platform After three cheers had been given,
JUDGE vAypERpooL then introduced to the meeting
and said
Mr.. President and Fellow -ci.izens-That apathy and
Indifference should prevail everywhere the result of
the coming contest wholly incredible. The issue
at stake in the election which to enter
is important than any that preceded ito the
great Masses mean In former contests questions of
national interest and national policy have been involved.
These to the partisan zeaot have been Of momenous
Importance But the question which now about to be
solved strikes deeply into the BOSOM the and
honest feeling oeYey in he community rich poor
On the result of this great reform meeting depends the e
mate the city New York will sustain in the eye and the
opinion Of the world Upon depends the question whe
ther the fair fame of the wykof and the Aliens that once
whether the hordes Of obbers harpes and that
have been eating up the substance of honest toll shall
De any longer permitted TO flourish These questions will
be important 10 stir up the feelings OF honest industry
and would to God could say that they stirred up the
feelings of the Of wsaho drive he
rogues from the high places in your city daughter and
applause) There are gentlemen, Ito their credit be
it said,) to whom these observations do not apply
some who feel the high responsibility connected with
ample means-who labor in and season and
pour out the abundance Of their wealth work this
great moral task OF municipal purgation Would to Hea
James Boormans and Peter Coopers victory would be
to perch upon standard We could then present
phaanx before which the minlons of corruption would
quail These men have been willing to buckle their
and tahe part with in this great work of REFORM
contributing their money literally when others held it
fast with nisers grasp These men of wealth in this
great commercial metropolis stand forth in cheering
contrast with the boarding, clutching, graspng
ing fogies by which they surrounded. Much ap-
pause) Nine months ago exposures made in con.
necton with this movement in reference to the
Of the city, which reused the Indignation and disgust OF
every whose was not obtuse by
depravity The opinion went far the fame of the
city extended that until reformation had would
stink in the nostris of all honorable men, The result
was that the new charter of reform adopted by
thirty three Thousand to three thousand. (Appause
energies of ordinary rogues Gaughter) They are not
all dead They still alive and kicking; and am sorry
to it may be years before they rooted out We
not take the contrary for granted We know that they
still striving and struggling to get hold of that good old
rich teat the city treasury from which, in days gone by
they accustomed to draw delightful and fattenng
nourishment. Sir you will them everywhere, filed
with high hopes and animation They soloquize in this
way "our hopes not desperate after all. Those
out last June and helped to thrash to the tune of
thirty thousand have back to their luxurious
delight and impunty To come out twice year is too
much of condescenson on their part. BY Blowing
m Of @ AND who
with US, and expect to get little of the
drppings of our exertions will operate with u.s.
and our prospects are not SO bad after all not
last '''''' 'S"n'' ''A'
Fellow citizens 1t remains to be determined whether
the Charter which We lab ted in Outo
season month after month shall be carried out. 1t de-
pends upon you, gentlemen who compose the Reform
Association whether that great boon is worth anything
Unless you elect the proper to put it in operation
will prove anything but bessing and instead of yield
ing the fruit you ancipsteS it will give nothing but
first time to be presented in twenty yearswhether the
great Of the citizens Of this mighty metropolis
meeting for time to forget all party feuds and dissen
tions for the purpose of procuring honest pure and e
cient city Wo have tried both of the great
political parties and found them equally wanting The
only derer between them is that while has chas
tised with whips the other has scourged with scor
pions. Applause and shouts of laughter.) We have
PAN and so backwards and forwards till have been
blisered and scalded and skinned alive. aughter) And
the to be determined by you fellow citizens
s whether this iron despotsm Of party be any longer
Permitted to scouge the good people of this great city
stand resolved al-re .oved that we will unite
together and snap the cords of this CALLING despotsm
like the cords Of the Philstinss which bound sampson
and that win shake of, like dew drops from the lions
name the incubus which is pressing down to the low
est depths of degradation Sir live in the worst gov.
erned city in the world If these be any people earth
who are taxed so severely, am very sure there
who re;eve little equivalent for the burthen
placed upon them have already been expended
II seems to clean the streets of this city. aughter
Yes sir, the very idea Of talking about cleaning the
streets Of the city, from the Uniform appearance they
exhibit, would make horse laugh If he had mouth for
IT, Uaughter) And yet an additional requistion Of
is made by good City Fathers upou the trea
sury. Why sr, If could gang of street sweepers
In the part of the city in which reside It would make
me think OF the advent OF the locustg, for think
they come about every seventeen years-( great ap-
plause)-and that as often, believe, the street
Sir eyes have not yet been RECALLED by the sight of
any body in the street with broom in their hands, with
the exception, perMps, of servant man the peor
girls who are employed to sweep the sidewalks in the
street in which reside, during this year of Lord
1858, although pay taxes for the humble two.
story dwelling in which reside than the rent of large
wholesome tenement would amount to in the town of my
nativity. What is the condition of your pavements9
Why, sir, with the exec pon of Broadway, where the