New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-29

Our City has enjoyed the unspeakable blessing
Of two consecutive Sundays passed in comparative
quiet and decency. 1t has been possible, during
the whole of these two Sabbaths, for children to
walk ia q church half mile from the parental
door, without passing the open deorways Of dozen
grogsbops reekipg with basphemy and broi, or
being sts ggered sgsinst by half dozen bleareyed,
foul-breathed, loathsome drunkards. Where for
merly az many as forty wrecks Of wOmanhood, to
say nothing of the far more numerous hbeIs on
manhood, have been picked up on Sunday BY the
Police and imprisoned to hide their indecency from
the public gaze, We have now blank returns on
Monday morning from most of the Wards and 8
general attestaton that Sunday is (as it should beg
for the Police the least troublesome and dangerous
day Of all the week.
Thi. happy result might as easily have been at
tanned last year a. now. There always has, as Dis
trict.AttorIey Hall Ia. pertinently said been law
enough to prohibit the sale Of liquor on the Sab
bath; the only defect was that the law has been
dead letter. We paid more than thousand men
to patrol our streets constantly and arrest oil law
breakers; yet here was whole class OstentatiOusly
defying and breaking the laws for their own profit
and the Police stepped gingerly by their open doors
OF only looked in to take liquid acknowledgment
of publican gratitude for their leniency Mayor
Wood could at any time have closed the grosshops
on the Sabbath-ln fact he did 30 in the outset Of
his official career-but be was soon summoned to
choose between the good will Of those who wished
the laws upheld and respected and the favor Of
those who wanted to make money BY breaking
them, and he went in for the latter. Thencefor-
ward, more Liquors were sold in this City on Sun
day than on any two days of the preceding week,
and the result was general riot and debauchery.
But for the New Police Act, this saturnalia would
have been still in full blast
1t rests on that majority Of our people who re-
spect the Sabbath to say whether the reform which
has been effected shall be maintained. Let the
New Police be broken down and Wood once moro
master. and the hoodsates Of moral ruin whl To-
evitsbly be re6pened on each returning Sabbath.
For if be triumpbs, it can only be through tho
favor, the money and the efforts of the liquor men,
who will work not for him but for themselves.
They will spend their money laviahly in his behalf,
but only to have it returned to them with interest.
They now profess their willingness TO obey the
laws respecting the Sabbath Dust as the coon do.
cided to leone down so soon a. Capt. Scott
had sighted HIM, but they will change their tune
the moment they find themselves triumphant; or
rather, the more reckless will sell more and more
openly, and the more cautious will gradually fol-
low .uit, until we shall have five thousand drunkard
factories in full blast every Sabbath.
There are in our city many people who care lit
tie for politics or parties, but who have whole
some preference for order quiet and deceucy over
rcwdyism, drunkenness and rampant iDiquity. We
ak these to observe the operation Of the New Pc
lice Act upon Sunday debauchery, and we give the
Police fair notice that they riu observe it.