The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-23

Enickaebocher iseslity e square inhabited by
~ genaIae Dcsrboas the real, thorough, dowa-
right, unquestioasble, pure old aristocracy-the
FIFTH avenue being occupied soleiy BY porv1vSes
aAd sazsaparilla men. Mr.. Pierce, 1t Is ssd finds
more oopgenial associations with the anti-slAvery
dssi~gsts and black republican leaders than with
the old, rough, rowdy democrats who held him
up In their arms during his perilous Presidential
career. 1t is even stated that Pierce and Marcy
have gene ever 70 tho black republicans. bag and
baggage, scrip and scrippage. There are Ger
tainly strong reasons for believing in thisremark
able daour of tbe distinguished associates Marcy
the pungent Old Secretary, dined with some of
the black republican magnates and fnanciers at
the Yacht Club House, Hoboken, the other day,
and flee time they had of it, too. Marcy has
been into some stockjobbing operations in Wall
street, and he is published as applicant for
and holder Of large number Of shares
of the stock of the Michigan and
Southern Indiana Railway. 1t is reported
that this corporation intend to send him to
Europe as its financial agent to sell its bonds.
Whether or not he will meet with the same sue
cess in selling railway bonds in London as in
cutting up Clarendon automatically remains to
be seen. The fact is, however, that the entire
Marcy and Van Duren party-including Flagg
and the whole faInily-are considered a. having
abandoned the administration of Mr. Buchanan,
and gone over bag and baggage to the anti
slavery and black republican forces.
The MUNICIPAL SrRUaGLE-Certain anti
elavery newspapers, which have espOused the
cause of Governor King In bis endeavor to
destroy the liberties and to usurp the gov
eminent of the city, now threaten the Mayor
and the Corporation that if they persist in their
defence Of the public rights that have been COM
mitted to their trust, they will be met and sub
dued by the armed force of the State militia.
The threat is q fit accompaniment and climax
to the course pursued by Governor King and his
friends in and out of the Legislature, from the
beginning of the contest Audacity which could
deliberately vote away the franchise of city
like New York might well eliminate in threats
of murder, bloodshed and rapine. Like robbers,
their plumber, the black republican nominees Of
Governor King think to throw as of our guard
and to bully the Mayor and the Corporation out
of their manly stand in defence of our sacred IL
berties by menacing them and US with armed
men, no doubt brought up from the rural
districts
They will find that they have misunderstood
their men. They will find that threats of force
and bloodshed viii only confirm the Mayor and
the people of the city in firm resolve to resist
to the last and under any and every circumstance
the Infamous attempt of the Legislature of 1857
TO diSfranchise New York and TO transfer its gov
eminent to the clique of politicians in force at
Albany. They will find that they had better, for
their own sake, have evinced more judgment aud
discretion, and less temper.
We feel that neither the Mayor nor the people
need any exhortation from US to keep them firm
to their purpose. There is, we feel convinced,
too much quiet courage in the one and the other
to admit Of any apprehension in the matter. Nor
is there any question but the issue of conflict,
like the responsibility of its occasion, would fall
heavily on the party which has invaded our
municipal rights, in order to advance their own
sordid and base party purposea We are not
afraid of the soldiers: let them come
Resting securely on the broad basis OF the old
Montgomerie and Dongan charters reaffirmed as
they are by the charter Of this very year. the Mayor
and the Corporation claim for the city full,
free aud complete system Of self government,
and an unabridged scheme Of municipal liberty
Self government and municipal liberty we're
guaranteed to us by those old charters, and have
never been taken away from Us; it is the duty,
the imperative, essential duty Of the Mayor and
the Corporation to defend and protect them
against all asailants They have the right, aud
IL Is their bounden obligation to preserve to Us
that old liberty which we have now enjoyed for
neara hundred years, and Of which no one TIL
this Infamous Legislature came ever attempted
to deprive us When, therefore, the agents Of the
usurpation Of Governor King and bis Legislature
attempt to take away that liberty, they should
be resisted; if in the courts with sound counsel;
IL in the corporation Offices, with GOODNESS aud
poieness; il ia the streets, with the bayonet and
cartridges ranmed home. There should be no
fooling or child's play about Il matter on which
municipal freedom depends.
The Mootgomerie ard Dongan charters are the
bower anchor Ct our Cooperation, ard the sooner
they nc. upon them and reorgsnize The police and
other departments so a. to brig taem within the
purview Of their provisions, the better Il will he
for them ard for us
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