Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-06-11

treaty. and II Haytien cruisers were to eop, search
and detan merchant vessels sailing under he flag oi
and belonging to- another country, rren thongh such
reSsclS wcre engaged IN tie Sare.traie the State 10
which such vessels belonged would have Just grounds
for DEMANDING satisfaction and rfparakion from
Hsy,, uness such State had previously given TO
Hayt, by treaty the right of search and detention >
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THE RIOTS IN NEW ORLEANS.
AS We write we are unapprzed Of the result Of the
revolutionary movements in the Crescent City. The
telegraph brings the sad news that blood has been
intelligence of increased turmoil, and probably Of the
spilng of more human blood, may fash along the
wires While we deeply regret the necessity for the
employment of revolutionary powers in place of the
mild and equable flow of legal justice-while we de-
pore the conversion Of organized society into camp
with its cannon and muskes and stern martial law
We cannot be surprised at the terrible outbreak If
there be any truth in the dark picture of outrages,
which We republsh below from the New Orleans
True Delta of June I'd. We have here another bitter
fruit of the Infamous fanaticism through which the
Know Nothing party at one time gained dsgraceful
sscendancy in several parties of the United States
Bigotry fraud and corruption were the levers by
which they carried out their miserable Vaccinations
for power. The good sense and stern patriotism of
the people of Virginia gave the first stunning
blow to the worst party that ever dsgraced
American history but from peculiar circum
stances the acrd virus permitted to poison the
social fountains of Of citiss such As Bslti
more, Washington and New Orleans. All the evils
predicted, As the inevitable consequences of so cor.
rupt and monsrous al organization, have been reap
ed by al outraged people; but the mischief has reach
ed its eliminating point in the city of New Orleans
where blood red crime has boldly siaksd through the
streets. Painful as the lesson may he, il will serve
to sets the public mind into still deeper execraiion
OF any party that for the sake of power or reward
would ruthessy seek to invade the sacred altar and
destroy the highest privileges of large class of the
community. by deception and cunning such par.
ty crep into power. TO msintain which it has to RELY
upon close aifiation with the most degraded men
in the COMMUNICATIVE fit tools of ts unhallowed am.
btion. Is it, them strange, however much to be re-
gretted that III New Orleans cursed as it has been by
the isnatlca dynasty, there should have been terri.
BILE uprisins, in defiance Of law aud order!
From the N Orleans True Delta June 81
WHAT Is THE MOVEMENT
Many persona atfsc. TO believe that only n full
consciousness o: approaching pecuniary disaster
could have roused the thinking and substantial men
OF this community to mature sense of the necessity
of crushing out the evi. elements which, for several
years past, have 20 ruinou.y dominated here Than
any such supposition nothing be more erroneoua
tor public opinion in ths Last two years has been
gradually forming and maturing 10 make the issu.
which is nov presented namely, whether the cut.
throats and vagabonds who c0Dgregae here, like
second San francisco, from evsry State in the Union
and every nation abroad shall rule and ruin il or
whether its industry its integrity, and its intelligence
shall assume ths control and compel such wrecnes To
sbdicate and depart. Ii the question ever WA n
political one II has long snce ceased To be 90 in thu
estimation of the public At large whether the kind OF
people who have been lordng il over this city shall
be permitted 10 rob, pund-r, and sssassnaie at dis.
cret.on, untouched by the laws unchecked by popII
lar power; until al length silent protests and univer.
.sl disgust have given way 10 determined organization,
and u resoIute intention 10 manain law and right By
the strong arm OF Legitimate popular authority.
The deinoralzaiion consequent upon what is called
the success of Know nottingham. exceeds beet;
hundreds of youths in 'hs city, many 0! them ,kr
sons Of parents ol the highest social standing. and
exalted moral worth. have been ruined in mind, mo
rails aud character being led into the indr rencc oi
the loves; a'I hasesi vices aud entrappad into the
commission OF punishable crimes in order TO obtain
The means ot vicious indulgence. The number ot e.
Unable families who have thus been brought To sor.
row, exceeds III We hav. stated, credbiity, and how
cOuu III Db oInerWlSe, wnpn The mereSt boys
clated with the vilcSt thieves and murderers, flour
shDg their knives an1 pistols. drking, for The un of
Inc thing, any obnoxious poor person that cams
along, aud chanting in half.drunken insanity, rip
sam, as they yelled and reeled 10 the lowest haunts
10 sleep oil the effects Of their frat debsucheriest-
Il is sights like these, and idle or real alarm for
the safety OF property, which have at length stirred
aud quckened this torpid community into healthful
activity and VIZ shall be disappointed in the compo
sitiOn Of the men who have taken control of the
movement, if they abandon it before our city is
purged OF the Villains who have made il by.word,
scoff, a reproach and hell.
The man OF property has Of course very great in
terest i'll it's preservation, and he must be blind and
stupid who does not observe how rapidly its value is
deprecisting ender the operation of the causes to
which we have 80 often alluded; but what is property
compared with the moral health Of the rising genera
ton Of this place, the decline in the value Of lots
in iuxtsposition with the purity, the sanctity, the
holiness of the domestic tempel
Ignorant and deptaved brues may laugh and think
1t good joke to see precocious rufans play of its
sanguinary tricks; and We have well dressed
pretefuous mIscreants stimulate 10 such exploits; bu
the parent who cares tor his and his family 5
honor, must be strangely constituted, if he can wit
ness such deeds without grief bitterness of feeling
and neHpressible modification. And it is in THE
spirit good men do, and have viewed the demorsliza
tion around us. and TO the rpenng Of the conviction
in their minds that the time had arrived to make an
effort at It's extirpation il s attribute and not to
the apprehensions of property, the manly spirit Of
resolution and determination now being embodied in
this place to effect radical and thorough reforma.
ton.