New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-19

The objections urged against the Metropolitan
Police act are all matters of form rather than sub
stance. 1t is not disputed by even the most We
hement opponents of the new Board, that the sys-
TEN they are appointed to carry out is essentially
q good one. Indeed, that system is dictated by
plain common sense and experience practically
demonstrates its necessity. No intelligent person
can give moment to cool reflection on the subject
without coming to the conclusion that in itself the
establishment of such Police is wise and neces-
sary measure. New-York, from its peculiar geo.
graphical situation, is special resort OF that vice.
rufianism and disorder which always have their
chosen haunts in large cities. Here, these danger
GUS elements are found in greater abundance than
elseWhere and they have heretofore profted largely
by the absence of any unitary police surveillance
comprehending the metropolis aud its immediate
vicinity and suburbs under one system. With the
rapid march at which the City is increasing this
evil must also increase, and at an ever accelerated
ratio. 1t is important, then, that there should be
single harmonious, cooperating body of police,
extending over New York, Brooklyn and the adjacent
Counties. Such body is provided by the Metropol-
itan act Of the last Legislature Asto its princi-
pal feature this act NAV be regarded as receiving the
appreciation of all parties and therefore, whatever
changes may b. made in the form and subordinate
details of the law, We are confident that such sys-
tenn of police will always be maintained.
If, then, the fundamental feature OF the
act is not only good one, Dur gene
rally approved, and destined To be permanent,
where is the sense If the factious. reyo-
luticnary lawless opposition which Mayor Wood Is
making to il Where is the sense of causing riots
and blocdshed, and resisting the mandates of the
Courts, n order to prevent the recognition OF thls
act is Nr. Wood TO be allowed 20 excite civil
war and defy Legislatures and Judges because one
of the details Of a law does not happen to sun MS
personal interests and ambition We think not
Whether Messrs Brown Brothers & Co., William
b. Astcr, Schuyler Livingston COurtlandt Palmer
and the other wealthy and respectable gentlemen
who. last Summer, in a letter which we reproduce
in another column, sOlemnly ipdorsed MI Wood,
notwithstanding the grave charges OF fraud SWIM
ding and other crimes which he rad eyaded only
by pleading the statute Of lmitatons-wnether
these gentlemen msy BE- anew lrduced 10 lend
linn their support in this grander enterprise against
the laws Of course nobody but themselves can con-
lecture: but We apprchend that, whatever course
tie peculiar friends and psrtissns Of Wood may
take the intelligent mass Of the people WA never
sustain these miserable proceedings IN which law
less violence is employed against The law and its
SCENTS.
For our own part, We say frankly what we have
said frcm ,he beginning we do not Ike al the de-
tails of this Police act Some Of them we strenu
ously opposed while the bill was under discussion
in the Legislature; and, when the proper occasion
arrives, We sLall be ready to do what we can for
their amendment. Others Of these subordinate
provisions we most heartily approve especially
those relating to protecting the polls AMI securing
tie purity tf elections. These alone VIII render
cheating al the polls almost mPo'sible-auctter
r. aion. il may be said. why NJ. Wood should
desire to nulIfy the ac,. Here, then, IS a~
whose leading feature j. good, and the majority OF
" hose detail. are coed. and MOI Ony COED but emi-
pertly necessarJ-a law which bsS, indeed, oly one
feature, usmey, the organization aad appointment.
Of The Board. 10 which any one can object Now
-hsll we allow anarchy sad mob violence T. De em.
p,o,ej to put dawn sVcu l,w' U sl- we rely