The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-25

of the country awaiting the RECOMMENDATION of
things, they have q good prospect before them
for great and solid national triumph 10 1856,
them look to the State elections in the interval,
and by next spring the solid Union masses OF
the country, North and South, will be ripe and
ready for the overthrow, in a common Ameri.
can Union movement, of the seditious anti
slavery Seward coalition in the North, and the
misguided secessionists of thu South.
General Cass is right. The platform Of nom
Intervention upon the slavery question is the
true platform for national party.
The PROHIBIToRY LIQUOR LAW IN THIS
METRoPoLIs.--The Mayor of this city will soon
direct the police force under his control to en-
force the Prohibitory Liquor law, SO far as his
legal advisers have informed him that it is
binding-that is, he will not interfere with i'm
ported liquors, because the Corporation Counsel
rays he has no right so to do; but he will or
der the police to seize and destroy all domestic
liquors which they believe are kept for sale.
The police will therefore, search for, seize and
destroy this species Of property, when it is
in the hands Of any citizen whom they
have reason to believe is engaged OF about to
be engaged in selling it. sa
The peculiarly delicate position of the Mayor
and his force may be comprehended at O
glance. They will have no positive proof Of
sale or OF an intent to sell in very many cases.
They must, then, assume that their belief is
sufficient proof Of guilty intent. They will be
judges, jury and counsel on both sides-they
will convict the defendant before he has COM
mitted any crime-in fact, before he is defen-
dant at all !; and, following out the dictation of
the law, they will proceed to summary execu-
ton. They will thus involve the Corporation
in hundreds of civil suits for damages, for the
city is pecuniarily responsible for every drop of
liquor destroyed by it's servants, and they will
violate the time-honored bulwark of the peo-
ple's liberty-the Bill of Rights-which very
clearly says that no citizen shall be injured in
life CT property without due process Of law.
The sharp practice under the Maine liquor
law conducted by such spirited advocates as
Neal Dow, is not the due process of law to which
the people Of New York have been accustomed
It seems to be pretty generally acknowledge
ed on all hands that the execution OF the Prohi.
bitory Liquor law in this city will be very
troublesome matter, and do much more harm
than good. We do not see how the police in
quisitors will go to work to tell foreign Ii
quors from those of home manufacture, because
according to law, the Custom House marks and
certificates are not to be taken as evidence
The marks may be forged, and the same certii-
cate is often used twenty times over. If the
police, then, do not seize all the American H.
quors, they violate their oath; if they seize
imported liquor by mistake, the city must pay
the bill, and the tax payers must dive deeper
into their pockets than ever. Then there will
be any number of rows, fights and riots. The
man that drinks Monongahela at sixty cents a
gallon will not be so particular about the EN-.
ploy ment Of ply steal force to defend what he
considers his rights as the fashionable tippler
who INDUCES in Otard at ten times the cost.
In Brooklyn, the Mayor will pursue an en-
tirely different course from that laid down by
his brother official in this city. The Mayor of
Brooklyn will order his force to seize and de-
stroy every drop Of liquor, foreign or domestic,
which may be found in the hands of dealers
within the limits of his municipality, and also
all that may be held as private stock, but which
the police have reason to believe is to be sold.
The Mayor Of Brooklyn is in for fight, as
sisted by the Rev. Mr.. King, who will grid on
that sword, and act as his Honor's special aid
de-camp. Brooklyn has large foreign popu-
1afi hat Of LA
Williamsburg was the scene Of several bloody
religious and political rows last summer.
There is bad feeling existing already
about this liquor law. The parsons, whose
duty it is to preach the gospel of peace
on earth, good will to men," have stood up in
public meetings, as well as in their own pull pits,
coupselling blood and pressing the authorities to
the use of the bayonet and the bullet. If the
police of Brooklyn attempt to carry out the
Mayors orders on the Fourth, collision seems
inevitable, and blood must be shed. Aud as
the authors of such state Of things should be
present to witness the effect of their beautiful
doctrines, we advise the Rev. Messrs. Ty 2,
Culver, and other fighting temperance parsons,
to grid on the armor of the church militant and
go over to Brooklyn on that day. Public order
in this city would be conserved and the cause
Of true religion not bit injured if they never
returned to us again.
The ADMINIsTRATIoN-A CRUMB OF CoMFoRT
One of our Wall street contemporaries, the
Journal Of Commerce, regales its readers with
the following amusing puff of the foreign poll
cy Of Pierce, Marcy, Forney & Cos
The conduct Of the In REFRESHING all enter
prses aimed at the Of the weak powers ad
acert to the United States ID highly creditabe th-
administration. This policy has from Ministers Of
other powers their warm approval The Minister from
Spain has taken occsson earn to express this Sc
crtary of State his satisfaction with the efforts made 20
stop the attempts Of ibusters to revolutionze the
island of Cuba. great service has been rendered to
the people Of the United States BY this policy which,