The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-04-17

SUBJUGATING DEMOCRATIC CITIES.

The deed is accomplished and the cities of New
York and Brooklyn are to be severely punished for
having the persistent effrontery to adhere to the
men, measures, and principles of the democratic
party by provokingly large majorities The bill
already noticed in the Union) taking the entire po
lice force of these two cities out Of the hands of their
respective mayors, and placing it under the control
Of commission, has passed the black-republican
legislature of the State of New York. and has
ceved the signature Of its black-repnbcan governor
This gross usurpaton of power may be exercised for
few brief months, but we much mistake the char
acter of the people of that great State if this
strons attempt to suljugate nearly eight hundred
thousand inhabitants will not shortly be followed by
results which do not at present enter into the cacu-
lations of their oppressors.
This subjugating act has not only called forth
the most indignant circumstances from the demo-
cratic press Of New York. but several of the opposi
ton papers have had the honesty and independence
to speak of it in terms of strong apprehension. The
New York Day Book says:
'Thc partisan scheme the black republicans have been
so long concoctng in order to take revenge upon New
York, is successful. The republicans have not only
disregarded the will of the people but in order to make
douby have taken all power out of their
hands, and returned to the old federal plan Of appoint
ing officers by the governor We have been told by the
leading abolition journal of New York that we were not
able to take care Of ourselves; and who ask, to
he custodans The commissioners of police,
announced by the federal republicans Simeon Draper
General James W. Nyc, Jacob Cholwcll, James Bowen,
and James S. T. Stranahan. These the to rise
above party, and to guard the purity of elections Mr.
Draper is well known desperate politician, who has
been yanly striving TO rise to the surface for years but
the weight Of his antcccdents has kept him down The
days of 'ppeayng' notoricty present themselves to
every ones mind and the idea Of putting forward such
for such position is more than could have
imagined the black republicans foolish to have
DONE
The case is even more strongly put by the Albany
Atlas and Argus That paper, in its issue of We'd
nesday last, says:
To-day charter imposed the citizens of
Buffalo, by the black republican house, who had been
urged to this piece of tyranny and injustice by lobby
paid to attend TO the material interests of the city, but
who devoted themselves to this political injustice
The charter is just the opposite of that passed
for New Yorkthe mayor is democratic and turned out
before the expiration of his term and the police trans
ferred from his charge to that of commission In Buff
falo the process is the The republican
kept in while the democratic officers turned out be-
fore their terms expired and the police il transferred
from the council to this political chief magis
trae.
There is one feature in common in the two cases.
The people of Buffalo, like those of New York protest
against this charter and it is imposed upon them by the
black republicans punishment and municipal
degradation
The democracy of the two great cities will not long
have to suffer under the tyranny and assumption OF this
INSCRIPTIONS faction"