The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-18
oUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
NEW YoaK, March l6, 1851.

NEW YORK. March l6, 1851.
Nav York has not yet wholly exercised clerical polti-
clans The last Sabbath bore witness to many assaults on
the Supreme Court in respect to their recent decision on
the slavery question. Near Union Square not lar rom
NAV be seen church edi6ce called the "Church
- ths putansp II is Congregational church. and is
0adsd as an interoper by the Presbyterian churches
This church came from New England, and imported
preacher from the same locality The Congregational
Church has no churches south OF |Mason and Dxons line
To build itself up has made itself ansayery In creed
and Il wars almost constantly for abotonism. The
pastor Is Rev. G. b. Cheevsr, who was the author OF
the famous GDeacsu CHESS Dstillery temperance le
Qend for which the reverend author was tried In Salem
for libel, convicted aud sent three months to the
comfy a He is one Of the editors of the Independent in
this city paper which published the basphemous SEN
ence that avote for Fremont cup Of cold water
gysn 10 Christi and during all the campaign Mr. Cheever
opened his church political preaching he made weekly
nnouneemenls of the themes which he would preach
IN the secular press crowded his house with motley
semby of men, who spent six nights in the week In a
caucus ROOM and quite ready to pass the seventh in
church where the Gospel according to Greeley, the
morals according to Bennett and the Bible doctrine of
coincidence and respect civil authority displaced for
assaults on our and attacks the constu-
ton On Sunday night last the assault on the funda-
mental law of the land was renewed by Mr. Cheever,
in a sermon on the "Dred Scott decision" 1t was
marked by all the maignity that distinguishes his po-
ca harangue We have great respect for the preachers
of the Gospel but when men leave the sacred calling
and descend into the political arena, they will find that
there are blows TO take we'll as blows to give. The
piety of congregation ted such condiments their
growth in love and peace and good win 10 men, may be
imagined but cannot be described The reported pecu-
MARY condition of this congregation indicates that the pol
lev of this reverend politician s not remarkably remunera-
tive.
The many instances of murder and crime OF the most
revolving character that to be daily TRANSPORTING in
and near Boston, seem to lead the public mind into tbs
belief that New York is not the worst the least
safe place in the land Indeed, when it is considered
that we have nearly million of people in city
that we have here some Of the very worst men that
ye-that crime has its headquarters, its bankers, its
expressmen and telegraph and complete organization
in our mdst-ihat daring consummae and adrot knaves
hide themselves in the multitude of people, the wonder is
not that now and then woman is murdered or
garoted or house broken open, highway robbery
committed but that twenty instances Of crime do not ap
pear where is found II be proved by stats-
tics that city the taxes lower crime less in pro-
portion to the number of people and their wealth. than in
this meteorological city of New York The fact that
single murder could agitate the whole community for
months striking proof that murders and great crimes
do not stalk abroad in our streets at monday
The Boston Chronicle has become of the most oen-
sive and malignant OF all the prints nSw espousng the
cause of black repubicanism. II commenced about
four years ago organ Of the beral party" to OPP
pose the "Maine law of 1852. After tul e--for it
could not get support that one deait in the
ke it offered to the old-lne wings it put in the
market for the Nebraska democrats to purchase and it
finally knocked down the black republicans the
highest bidders and by funny conjunction it united
with the Telegraph daily temperance paper esab-
shed to support the Maine law, and from this cross has
out indecent and print printed
east of the Allegiance And edited by renegade demo
GRAFT it has exhausted the vocabulary of bad epthes in
condemnng the judges of the Supreme Court in regard
their recent opinion.
In the mean time is refreshing to find that the grand
and fundamental doctrines of the inaugural responded
to by the people of the country who have not before acted
with the democratic party, and sound conservative
hail their enuncation and wait with pleasure the sound
and bene6cent fruit that shall flow from the administra-
ton based upon them MANHATTAN.