New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-05
T,Ur SytTEN ISLAND LNCENDIARiES


To re Edi,5y q TIE N Y 7yiS""e
SIR. Won .u,ey caunot be disposed to rdioale or
d;,.,.oe tho honest efforts Of the people of Staten
I.lsrd 10 defend their lives and property from tie
,yrs,nv If the State by legal Proceedings. tler--
c,ro az With confidence that you will in5er. the
C,uowipo ,e,peciful reply to paragraph which mast
have hecr caret.sly admitted u your columns, AL
mich b.. c,u,ed much regret and some Indignation
-, a., te.t friends Of THE TRIBUNE IN Richmond
County;
,oo,d Saturday night. A large fund was raised to
aid in preventing the location Of tue Quarantine
Ssenipe'. Point. Lot G. Clark, lawyer wa- sea
in eouhc with the man who carried round tire cub
.crip.ion paper Another dwelling Wolf. farm mas
been burned and the bridges al toe gateway torn up
and destroyed. The above facts were ycst rday re-
ported Ia H1 Quarantine Cv0m@..ODrS by Ohc 0t
Iter tmpi0yo's.
The most conservative and respectable citizens Of
Staten Island including nearly all tue leadog mem
bers ofthe Republican party, anxious 10 use every
possible legal effort and will Tor tins spare No expense
or labor prevent what they believe TO be very IN
iustifuble action the part OF the Quarantine Com
mis- ion They the anxious 10 succeed IN tnis
e0it beCausC they believe It Is only by hope iht
protection oi the law that the excited and ehIeS5u
population of the quarter will be- restrained IRON
using desperate and Illegal measures toprevsh' Tue
success OF the project of the Commissioned NO one
who has the slightest conception %, te Sa'e % ,Sou7
ON the subject in the towns of Westheld ana Npi'i-
field would make light of the means winch are mace
Of to restrain within the limits oi i7s4' pro-
Ceedlngs. IL, - g; r.,
The facts cf the meeting reported a. above 10 NE
TRIpUSE are, that committee OF twenty-five gen
tlemen Of the highest respectabIy were selected Oy
tbnee I hnve spoken Of as u Finance Com nttse, .
raise upds 10 test the validity Of the proceedings Of
the Commission in the Courts Of law. They met az
tie County Hall openly, by published appointment,
By daylight with doors open-the time selected be-
tba orr nat brrf
meeting had been called in the village the saue even
NO which several members of the Committee were
likely to attend. Their legal counsel met them by ap-
pOintment iOr a consultation.
If the Commissioners ~ appears by your para
graph had of their employees present 70 report
their proceedings It IS perfectly coHsonant wth all
their proceedings in relation TO SegIlne Point but
70 report the gentlemen OF that meeting "a " QUAR-
sntne rioters is more than mc$a and provoking To
the people of the county II Is grossly false and libel
Gus. Yours respectfully, o.
The writer of the foregoing oompels to say some
things that would rather leave unsad; out 80 De
it. We must study brevity.
/. lie talks of "the tyranny OF the state "ha'
nonsense The State was obliged to locate The Quar-
anime sonaeutcre. 1t appointed three capable worthy
and honorable men to select site for il. These men
tried to get the proper site and could not- Deihg
within the jurisdiction of another State They tten
made q Temporary location at Seguines Point Per-
hans they might have made better, though we cas-
NOT say where: but the state has done nothing IN the
nremscs but what she was absolutely compelledto do
and Inv the earnest of Staten Island herr
self She was that called for remOvalof the Quar-
ontine and il is for her sake that the removal made
from pont where the establishment periied thousands
10 one where it perils but hundreds, concedug that
neou'e living in clearly, wholesome habitations in
fine omen country exposed to fresh sea-breezes, cam
be endangered by Yellow Fever at all Where, then,
il the tyranny" Why not leave random, reckless
eliminating charges to the political demagogues who
are busy enough in making capital out OF the matter
3 O. talks of "the state of feeling" existing on the
lower end of the Island fearful and dangerous
This it strikes u.s. is an additional reason why such as
he should talk sensiby and nationally rather than Use
language calculated to feed and increase this frenzy
In such crisis reckless words often become ' fire.
brands arrows and death.
g. o. saws in substance that y the Courts don
drive the Quarantine away from Seguines Point, IL
will be removed by desperate and Illegal measures.
We have II better opinion of bis neighbors than he
seems to cherish. II they going to law with the
State on the principle of Heads, win-Tails you
lose" the proceeding is transparent farce. We 90
to the Counts or justice; but he who goes procauGg
beforehand" If the goes for Inc, very good If
agans. inc | take the law into my own hands aud
reverse the Courts decision" makes litigation q
trifng business, with which grave men would prefer
having nothing to do. We the other hand, see no
reason TO doubt that the Courts will do substantial
usee in the premises and we counsel all concerned to
abide their judgments.
A. The facts that anti-Quarantne meeting was held
at Richmond last Saturday night and that more arson
was committed on the State property AT Segune POINT
before Monday morning, may not have any connection
with each other but taken in connection with the doc
trpes which o. and his compatrots avow, there Is rea
son for tating them together Does O. forget that rt
anti Quarantine meeting at Richmond, the kind Of
speeches made and resolves passed at that meeting,
and the burning of the States buildings which soon
followed Does he deny that those speeches and re-
solves pointed directly violence and condagaton in
case thew were not successful by law Does he not
know that. where men of his and Lot Clarks stamp
talk of resortng to violence after their defeat by law,
men of anoth her stamp will feel justified IN resoting to
without awaiting "the laws delay' We hold the
uroper vhodcrs Southsde who have any way threat
eped or counseled or tolerated the idea of resort 70
violence in any case virtually partners in crime with
those who have burned buildings and are threatening
TO burn more The same selfshness awessneSs, reck-
lesness of general good are evnced nthe case as
in the other while the balance of courage is on the side
of those who perpetr4te against those who only
threaten. If O. knows any one whom tins hts he Is
welcome TO point him out lE@'
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