The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-27

vas scattering 10 the right and let IN word who can
EEL assured that be may into Us streets about bis on
daary occupation without ineurr personal dAu.
Certainly no rejecting pssson leave his home even i
he DAYTIME and feel certain that he will return TO again
ines from accident We have laws for our protection
against these things, IL Is true but Of what value arr
laws unless they carried into effect
ii We are so VIGOROUSLY liable 10 accident equally
unsale from rufany maltreatment and even assassina
lion Ia proof Of this many facts might be addueed bat
ne will coneut ourselves with Two illustrations
10 what other city paying as much as we DO Tor police
could man be struck down az his own door and muI.
dered fn The presence Of his brother without usurng
the arrest aud punishment OF the nmrderersi Where els
could young the Of one OF the leading merchants
Of the city returning from party TO his home within The
distance OF quarter of mile and in one OF the wealth.
quarters of the city, be spirited away and know
how il was dome or AN thing about iii y
How many assaults and bold thets occur Ia bread day.
light in the most eqnented parts OF the CITY without DE-
lection il is needless here To relate
These indspuable facts lead us TO ask why prots.
sedy self governing community like this toleraes eyA
thai would, nader despolsm, stir up rcyolatonl The
only answer that presents itself ID the general indifference
of our reople as how by whom they governed
The consequences OF this apathy are becoming truly fear.
full Year after year the tax list swes 10 greater length
aud year after year the person and property OF the citizen
grow propertionatey less The inference Is obyL
ous-bad seek Office for the plumber which 1t NAY
afford are nominated by for the disiribton
which they may make OF the spolis and elected because
the people generally think they be worse than were
their predecessors. It
Here Is indeed fearful exhibition Of "intoerabe eyi
which would, under despotism stir up revolution
Why do such evils continue 10 exist in "selfgoyernny
community" like New York The Of tue Tribune
is Hndiference Of people to how by whom they
are governed" Is that Are the people of New York
indifferent that subject2 If II be So then Gu.
rous inquiry opens itself 10 vewnamely, what i
the cause of that Indifference? We invite among
the intelligent writer's Of the Tribune to discuss in good
faith that most interesting question to explain to us the
secret of the prevalence of crime the disregard Of law
and the official corruption, of which we hear much in
New York.
Meanwhile instead of devotins himself with much
misplaced zeal the endeavor to fret row" in the Tel
rory of Kansas Of which he is not citizen and in Whose
affairs he by possibility exercise either legitimate
or discreet interference would it not be well for the editor
of the Tribune to the duty of doing good at
home in the city of New York. where If ihs statements Of
himself and his contemporaries be correct there Of
aruf.ianism in week than in the State Of Mis-
souri, in year. and which stands n much greater need Of
revolutionary Topeka convention" than did the
Territory of Kansas.