Washington telegraph., 1854-07-19
The Spirit Of ROwdyism.

ne spirit OIL KSOWGyESm.
The peculiar friends of religion and Of
the civil freedom, universal equality of all
creeds before the laws is sure to beget have
hit upon ingenious expedients 10 prove the
sincerity of their devotion to the first, and
their generous appreciation of the second,
in the Northern cities. In New York par
ticularly. the Sabbath is converted into
day of riotous saturnalia, the streets and pub
lie places of that city are now being converted
j into exhibition localities for the insane out-'
! cast of other lands to preach sedition and
indigenous fanatics to expatiate upon the at
fractions and the necessity of civil war
The Angel Gabriel" @ho, it appears, is
a wandering English bedlamite, whose men,
tai in6rmties entitle him to the charities of
the mad-house, or his crimes to the hospital
ity Of the penitentiary, is the great high
priest Of the mobites, equally ready and on
hand to stimulate, as he did, the rabble of
Boston to open resistance 10 the laws, in the
case of the slave Burns, or to talk inham-
matory rubbish to the goddess miscreants of
New York stews and drunkeries. who by
some outrageous perversion of public intel
ligence, are at this moment permitted to
terrify peaceful citizens, disturb the public
tranquility, 20 endanger lives and property
under the miserable pretext that they are
the conservators of liberty of conscience in
these free States, and the life guards of re-
publican freedom.
Yesterday week was among other re-
markable epochs, day long to be remem-
bered in the city emphatically styled the
''Empire,'' and its contiguous neighbor
Brooklyn whose peaceful and usually quiet
streets resounded on the Lords day to the
tramp of armed soldiery, the numbering of
artillery and the heavy movements of caval-
ry. The churches were deserted to wit
ness a spectacle so extraordinary; women
and children looked out from their barrica-
ded dwellings, in vague wonder and with
strange apprehensons upon sight so un-
wonted and inexplicable, and the auhori
ties vindicated their own activity and vigi-
lance in areGeRttng tumult and discord, by
boasting of preserving the rights of con-
science ard the freedom of speech. The
Angel Gabriel with the words Rule Bri-
tanna' and Hail Columbia" inscribed
on the band round his cap, was permitted 10
outrage decency, prop iety and the laws, to
do that which, had he attempted in any city
or village of the England whence he comes,
would have sent him to the house of cor
rection, and all because the right to do so
is, according 10 official ideas in Brooklyn
and New York, guaranteed to every out
cast from Europe, who chooses to take up as
profitable scheme of operations, the abuse
of particular classes of citizens or certain
obnoxious forms of faith
1t may be that Barnum begins to pail on
the popular appetite for excitement in New
York, and that Sunday exhibitions. such as
have been recently witnessed there. are cot
up for the special qualification and edifca-
ton of the vulgar mass but it may turn
out after little that these induleences, Ike
the brutal enjoyments prepared for the Ro-
mans in ancient days. may cost the enter
tainers dear, and lead to more serious con-
sequences than few broken heads and oc-
cssional dissertations of the holy Sabbath
In the present state of society in the
Northern cities, heads of Southern families
would do we'll to consider whether thev are
acting prudently in taking their children on
there for summer recreation, for putting
aside all fear for their personal safety, few
men of good feeling and sound views would
like TO expose them to the communicating in
fluence of men who openly proclaim their
disregard of the laws and their defiance of
their ministers, whenever, by so doing. as
in the instance of Boston and New York
they are sustained by popular demonstra-
tions. Society is in strange condition tru-
ly. ". 0, True Dekta