The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-26
Our Municipal AfHairs-An Opening for a
Rxur

Our Municipal AnAirs-An Opening for a
Revolution.
We would admonish the people, the taxpaying
and non taxpa,iug people of the city and county
Of New York, that in November next, in our
State election, and in December, in our munich.
pal election, fine opportunity will be afforded
for peaceable revolution in the management of
our city affairs
To those of our fellow citizens who despair OF
retrencbment reform, or relief in any shape, or
from auy source, it may be useless to appeal;
but to all who believe that the people Of this
island possess the power ofrighti1g their wrongs,
we submit that they should begin to stir in this
business the instant they discover the regular
party politicians at work. And the time has
arrived for this independent action; for on every
side, democratic, Tammany and anti Tamuany,
republican and Know Nothing, the spois and
plurder managers are at work parcelling out
their Offices, contracts, monopolies, jobs, and
pickiDgs and stealings as the terms upon which
they calculate to carry these approaching No
vember and December elections
The Tammany Hall democracy, utterly be-
sotted a d debauched from their long career of
public spoliation, are past praying for. There
are bali dozen candidates of the Old Wigwam
aspiring to the Office ofMayor, and every aspirant
has bis little knot of followers and grogshop run
hers busily mining and countermining in his
behalf to secure the Tammany nomination. aud
from the post of Mayor, through all the schedule
of offices and spoils comprehended in our Novem.
Der and December elections the ramiications of
these pot-house engineers extend The anti.
Tammany or Mozart Hall faction are controlled
by set Of managers equally selfish equally cor.
rupt, and quite as active in their plots and couu-
terplots as the Camanches and Pottawatomies of
Tammany. The Alpha and Omega Of both fac.
tons are the spoils, and the game Of both is the
old routine of corruption, trickerY, knavery,
rowdyism and plumber.
quality through that nice little Albany despot.
| lem, their Metropolitan Police system. Through
their model Comptroller, Mr.. Haws, they have
ehown us that their dominion is of the old Tam
many pattern, and is simply receivable into
more taxes from year to year-more taxes, more
jobs, more spoils. Through the pious Pillsbury
we are now experiencing too, the first symptoms
OF that rule of priestcraft over temporal affairs
which, in all ages and in all nations, has proved
the greatest curse of mankind-the fercest de5-
potism and the most demoralizing, the most de.
basing and the most horrible and devastating in
it's bloody results. To go no farther back, from
the first French revolution and its Reign of Ter.
ror down to this late Italian war; all the wars of
Europe may be traced to this mischievous ruling
element of priestcraft in State affairs. And
the incessant revolutions which have reduced
poor Mexico and the other Spanish American re-
publics of this continent to their present shock
ing condition Of political, religious and social de-
graduation, are all due to the same cause.-the
crushing political despotlsm of debauched and
Unsuitable church.
In that great charter of compromises, the con.
stitution ofthe United States, the browning COM
promise is that in behalf religious liberty, COM
pretended in that sublime decree-"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof" &c. 1t is remarkable fact, too, in
this connection, that the Congress from which
this constitutional provision emanated was
Q7S9) held in this city Of New York. We have
therefore, peculiar right to be sensitive upon
this point when the attempt to undermine this
great principle of religious liberty is made in
the very city from which it was first proclaimed
to the world. And can these Sabbatarians be
ignorant of the scope of their pretensions? If
they can prohibit man to-day from drinking
glass oflager bier on the Sabbath in public
place, may they not prohibit him next from
leaving bis house on Sunday, or compel him to
go to church on the arm Of policeman, and
beat the ritual into his head with policemau's
cudge? These Sabbatarian movements are, ia
fact, but the first lesson of the old Connecticut
blue laws; but before they can be fully estab-
lshed the people concerned should seize the first
occasion for definite understanding upon the
subject, yea or nay.
To this end let all the electors of this island
yea or nay-prepare for our November aud De-
cember elections Our religious brethren who
are content to amuse themselves with their
sumptuous carriages their fast horses, and their
luxurious country seats, or at the springs, or at
the seasbore during the bot Sabbaths of the
summer, may if they think it, vote that their
poor brethren have no rights of enjoyment on
Sunday which the rich are bound to respect; but
the poor man will have the same liberty to vote
the other way. Only let us have the issue made
and put to the VOTE
But as neither our democrats, Tammauy nor
ant-Tammany, nor republicans, nor Know
NothiDgs, have any other object in view than
the apoi's and plumber, let the people concerned
In the question Of taxation, and more taxes, and
religious liberty, proceed to organize for our ap.
preaching elections upon an Independent foot
ing. An independent peoples candidate for
Mayor, for example, upon the broad platform of
municipal reform and no blue laws" would be
apt to run the gauntlet We call upon our fel.