The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-22

ever been such meeting held in this city as
this anti-Wood meeting since the same mer-
chants met on the same spot near q quarter of
century since to denounce General jackson
as murderer and an adulterer because he
would insist on removing the government de-
posts from the rotten banks in which these
merchants were interested.
The Poor OF tho City-Work for the Coming
Winter
The temporary excitement which was created
by the mass meetings held recently in Temp
kins square and the Park, and by the professions
Of bodies Of unemployed workingmen through
our streets, has died out, and the city has set
tied down into its former peaceful condition.
We hear no more Of those denunciations Of the
wealthy and indictments to acts of violence
which formed the staple of some of the
harangues to which the unemployed poor of the
city were treated by those who professed to be
| their friends, but who were really the worst
enemies they could have
| Now however, that the excitement is over,
| the public are enabled to perceive, as we have
often stated, that there is really nothing to
(
ingmen, and. that it is to those only who took
advantage of the opportunity presented
| by the peculiar nature of the times
| to associate with them, and to disseminate at
their meetings the most atrocious principles of
French socialism, that we are indebted for the
threatening appearance of these movements
The only disturbances that took place were
1u nd Inv oc
rowdes who are always predisposed to ruff
anism and acts of violence, and who I'M
fortunately for the workingmen, combined
| with the free lovers and Fourierites, of the
| Tribune school, to bring 0dium and dscredit
| upon their meetings. 1t is with these-the
Fourierites the socialists, the free lovers, the
short boys" and rowdies of every kind-that
those ridiculous and insane exhibitions which
we have witnessed from day to day in our
public places, and which seemed to threaten
the peace of the city, originated. 1t is but
natural that men of such kindred character
should associate for a common purpose, and
should endeavor, at this particular time, to
| carry out their schemes of violence and
| plumber. These were the men who coun-
| selled an attack on the Custom House,
with the view of getting at the United States
money deposited there, and at whose instiga-
| ton that absurd display was made some days
ago before the Merchants Exchange.
The politicians, too, attempted by an exhibit
ton of sympathy to curry favor with the un-
employed and the Central Committee Of Tam
many Hall passed series of resolutions with
that view at their meeting last Friday evening.
Now this is matter with wfn1h politicians
have nothing to do, and if the workingmen
have due regard for their own interests they
will keep clear of them. The resolutions
of this committee were similar in style and
character with those absurd and silly declama-
tons pronounced at the meetings in Temp
| kins square and the Park, and which cannot
result in any good to the unemployed. The
workingmen are now sensible of this
themselves, and no longer assemble in
those places, satisfied that while they
did so they were but injuring their claims
upon the sympathy, good wishes and active be-
nevolence of the public. They have learned by
experience that they have nothing to expect
either from corrupt political Adventures,
Fourierites and free lovers, or from association
with the gangs Of ruffians and rowdies who en-
deavored on several occasions-though we are
glad to say without success-to bring them INTO
conflict with our city authorities. Their con-
duct in this particular has entitled them to the
active sympathy of the public; and to this, after
all, they must look for relief in their present
necessity.
There are, we have no doubt, large numbers
Of persons out Of work all over the city, and
these are not confined to laborers and such az
are looking for employment on the Central
Park. There are besides thousands Of deserving,
honest respectable men and women upon whom
the hard times have fallen with crushing effect,
but who are prevented by a feeling of pride and
selfrespect from parading their poverty and
desttution before the public gaze. They are
the deserving poor, and there is no man or wo-
man with the common instincts of humanity
who does not heartily and sincerely sympathize
with them in their want and distress. Some
thing should be done for these, in view Of the
hardships which they must otherwise suffer
during the approaching winter; and to render
assistance efiectual it should be done at once
Let the benevolent who have the means and the
time, form ward associations throughout CITY,
and through the means Of good, active, vigiant
committees seek out those who are actually in
want, and furnish them with such employment
az they can procure. Those who are willing to
work will not refuse anything that will afford
them and their families subsistence till the re-
turn of better times, and the committee will, we
think, have no difficulty in distinguishing be-
tween the idle and the industrious.
Associations Of this kind are preferable TO
charitable societies, for the simple reason that
the recipients Of the aid which they give, in
stead Of being degraded into mere paupers are
still kept in that feeling of independence which