New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-25


e5ipi was e governor OF that place and that he had
the palm Of bis RICH: hand fayed and hi mead seaPeu
s,a uss ttep killed. when tie Archbishop might aud
should isge prevented such torture 10 tnls ,n'
,,, IL that these baroaries were committed BY the
austrian military authorities over "hom me fApA1
C6fernor lad no control and Tor whose sets nc ousl
not 70 br held respOnsibe. This explanation does nos
fov,ever sstsfy tie Germans and Italians N question
end they have aIeu several occasions 70 express their
opinion Of the Archbishop By professions tae burning
NJ ces ard sther lnate methods Appears - more
ereme violence have also been made IN some places,
b.. .Iov have had 10 effect No where hasthe Nuocio
bsen IN danger: nowhere have the local authorities
been unable TO afford him al needi1l protectOni no
where has there been any real riot except az Cin'in-
natl where tie police led By an overzealous rieai OF
tie por,y supposed 10 be in danger were guilty Of
cross and even murJerOus outrage on procession oil
CermsDs for which the whole corps is now on trial be-
FIRE tie courts And though there have been nan!
unrIessant features in the visit Of the NunciO there
have been other circumstances to balance them and we
have 10 doubt that on tie whole he has had very good
time in America nor that he understands perfectly well
that the ibciyilties be has suffered and which the
authorities have everywhere been able to keep within
bounds sle the manifestations Of ioTegnresiens, and
not Of native tOIn Americans.
And yet to rebuking these expressions of personal
dislike to Archbishop Bediui-exPressions in their
nature inseparsble from any form Of popular freedom
the Senate devoted the greater part Of Mondays de-
bate Eloquent denuncatOns of the supposiiious riots
were delivered by several Senators; pathetic hmenta-
tions for the Disgrace of the American people; en-
phatic ndorsensnts Ofhe character and history Of the
Nunco. Blessrs. Cass, Mason Douglas. Everett, and
other distinguished Senators, made speeches OF this
SOFT as i'll the affair were of supreme importance,
in which the honor dignity, aud duty of the Go7era-
ment were involved All these Senator'S seemed to be
seized all of sudden with solemn sense OF the wick
edness Of riots and of their tremendous response
bilities connected Herewith.
And yet the very gentlemen who played OF this hypo-
cvfical comod ia tho Senate have lsOked onn silence
and traction while riots Of the most etrOcious char
acter have ragged for weeks within thirtysix hours
distance of the Capitol in defiance Of the mutual OBJ
legations of the States and the rightsof common hui
mainly They have seen the public tranquility yio-
lated, property destroyed by mobs Thousands thou
sands of peacabe travellers compelled By brutal force
to endure the incerent blasts Of winter, tn, mails
stopped the laws of tie country outraged the author
ty Of tie federal courts Knocked and trampled and
their officers arrested and imprisoned-and they
have seen all this without calling for information OF
dencuncing these enormous crimes or defloring
lie odium they cast upon free institutions or ap
pealing to the guilty people with all tho gravity and
weight of the Senatorial authority to desis from the
folly and madness Of their course Neither Mr.. Cas-,
nor Nj Everett nor BIr. Douglas nor Mr. Mason, has
rsen 10 his place to move for moasues, not only with
in the competence, but within the duty Of the Fed
ero Government. Not only have they RETAINED from
exerting moral influence against the Erie rioters,
but they have not proposed to send troops TO
duce them to order ard to enforce the derees Of the
Federal Courts. The Senators have keenly felt the in
digItes offered to foreign priest, but not the far
greater wrongs inflicted on thousands of our own
people. They afflicted by Onenses against the
power of tie police in a few localities, bat not by
the humiliation Of the authority of tie United States
Tley blush with shame and frown with anger because
a single European is burned in efigy, by some inpas
stoned eugTants from Europe; but positive prolonged.
repeated, destructive, dangerous riots they suffer to
continue without word Of rebuke or act Of repres
sion. They strain at gnlt and swallow q camel The
reason is potent There are 10 votes 10 be got in the
direction, willie it is thought that large crop may
be Lar estcd in the other How else such OciOas
action in the case of Archbishop Bedui and such cul
pable neglect in that Of the Erie rioters be explained