New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-03

most brilliant, whose equipsge the most costly,
whose appearance is the most stunning Of any Of
| the gay butterflies virtuous or vicious, whose
beauty and wealth add glitter to the opera or sun
shine to the promenade. Within a bow-shot OF
these palaces is the other side of the world; for
brocade, rags; for diamonds dirt; for Johannis-
berger whisky for milonaires, beggars; for
dvines, devils; for Aspasias, drabs; with here and
there some poor, starving wretch painfully enactng
the /" Song Of the Shirt" her beseged virtue
gimmering in the misery Of this tangible hell, like
the tabled jew ell in duDgbill And over ALL we have
a set Of men called rulers wrangliDg like hungry
dogs for the public purse; lying and cheating for
advancement; plotting TO overthrow all law, that
they may rob the people; and in their influence
upon our vast criminal population recklessly
lariDg their incendary torches in our moral
powder. house.
And this is the metropolis of the Western World
to day, full of uncleanness within and without;
the disgrace and sorrow of all good citizens; the
very Mecca of political and moral rascals through
OHt the world. Who is responsible Yon are the
man, Mr.. Importing Merchant; and you Mr.. Man
ufacturer; and you, Mr.. Banker; and you, Mr..
Lawyer You " have left undoDe those things
(which you ought to have done;" you have re-
manned in your stores and Offices while knayes
were plotting against your peace; you have
disregsrded the voice Of the press, when
it warned you that rowdies were NOM
mating villains for Office; you have al
lowed these rowdies to make up your ticket, and
permitted them TO elect it, without opposition; you
have been again ana again importuned to take office
yourselves, or at least induce honest men to be-
come candidates, and to work for their election;
but yos would have nothing to do with {" the dirty
pool of politics" And now you find yourselves
crushed with the enormous taxation of eight mil
lions per sDnum, of whch you know half rs, in
way and as0ther, stolen; you have Mayor against
whom there vas majority of nine thousand votes,
setting all aNs at defiance and pushing the People
to the verge of anarchy; you have Common
Council of siehtytwo members of whom not
0ne-fourth were elected by majority, in
their respective districts, and whose aggregate
vote was bus 81, 900 against AZ, OO0-a Common
Council which, with few exceptions, is composed
of men destitute alike Of intellect, experience and
honesty; whose rule Of action is based upon the
prime consideration, How much will you give
You baye POLICE in the main inefficient and irTe-
sponsibe, upon whom no citizen ever thinks OF
depel ding and in whom your own confidence is
iIustr ated by ths universal employment Of private
watcbipen; you Rave streets in condition Of filth
that would disgrace farmers hog pen and poison
his swue-a city literally sinking in the nostrils
of the world sd you are threatened at any mo-
ment with pesdlence that would .dspopulate the
and set your boosted progress back
ward for half century.
All this, and much more, must be laid TO the
wicked neglect of their political rights and response
bities BY. the class known as first citizens"
and scaLdal 10 the noble name of citizen it is.
There has never been moment when the honest,
unaapiring voters of New-York could
not have placed in our executive and legislative
Offices men of she stamp of Clinton Hoffman, Col,
den, Hone Pauldng, BowDe, Hayemeyer, and
others Of the past and passing generations. How |
do these names compare with those of Bill Wilson,
Fernando Wood Ned Mcdonnell, and the less |
known bat kindred luminaries now grazing the |
Council chambers Wo confess to but slight hope |
for the future So long as it is deemed disgraceful
to accept City Offices, 50 long they will be filed in
the main by knayes OF fools There is no real re-
demyton for New York until the honest of all
parties and party come up to the rescue, aud risk
the temporary dss race if they please to call 1t 81,
to secure their emancipation from the rne and
robbery of rowdies, ruAsellers, tckes-swindleFs
and thieves.