The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-18
TIE Panic Among the Rowdies.


The miscreant organizations that have, hither-
to, ruled the city, are filed with dismay. They
regard the movement Of the respectable classes
of the community to destroy their monopoly of
power, as political day ofjudgment upon which
they must certainly be numbered among the
goats" The press portion Of the corruption
lists, howls forth plants, from day to day, which
betray the sorest anxiety and tribulation. The
black republican organ Of disunion and "irre-
pressible conflict" draws veil of affected mo-
desty over its prurient Fourierite face, at the
thought Of an organization which includes an
individual who is once said to have been be-
trayed into swearing, by some Sewardite rascal
ity. The Mozart Hall newspaper exhausts the
synonyms Of the verb "to DAMN" in denun-
citation of another unhappy person, whose ante
cedents fall under its ban. Tammany's expo
nent, the most ferocious of all, fills its columns
with Billingsgate vocabulary and detestation
of cold water and clean shirts All this was
to have been expected. A kicked bully, de-
tected burglar, or disappointed conspirator,
rarely suffers defeat, without dismal articula-
tons of rage, similar to those which the three
cliques we refer to have emitted.
Nevertheless, the mighty uprising in be-
half of democratic reform, swells in strength
from hour to hour, and will soon include
the entire worth, honesty, prudence, in
tellectuality and industry of this great
metropolis. The gentlemen who form the
committee which called the Fifth Avenue
Hotel meeting together, and the hun
dreds of intelligent members of the demo-
cratic party who cooperated with them
there, are determined that their efforts shall not
| fail. The dangers which menace the country
| from an apparent endorsement, by the State of
| New York, Of the doctrines of the atrocous
Rochester speech of Mr.. William n. Seward,
may not, perhaps, be at once averted; but the
necessity of municipal reform remains the
same, and the Augean filth of our political pur-
lieus will be cleansed away, by the action which
| is being brought to bear against it. The infor-
| nation we receive confirms us in the belief,
| that the DULLES and shoulder-hitters, who
TONS in the black republican party,
as well as in Tammany and Mozart
Halls, cannot count one to fifteen
who oppose them. The patronage, place and
plumber now invested in their hands will, there
fore, be speedily wrested away, and conferred
upon proper representatives of the public
| interests.
The election for State officers is rapidly ap-
preaching. 1t seems scarcely possible for the
new organization to display great force upon
that occasion. Moreover, the deep disgust
which has been excited, in the rural districts,
by the brutalities which characterized the SYRIA
cuse Nominating Convention, together with the
miserable reputation of Tammany and Mozart
Halls, and Of the Albany Regency, may, not
improbably, influence unfavorably for the sue
cess Of the democratic ticket Deeply as de-
feat would be deplored, on national grounds, 1t
should be anticipated as probable, met without
faltering, and with redoubled resolve that a
state of political anarchy and confusion shall
never exist again, similar to that which brings
such a calamity within the range of possibility.
The black republican, and monopoly-demo-
cratic cliques are most DESTROYS of divertinp
attention from misrule in the city of New York.
The very bread will be taken from the mouths
Of the rowdy FIVE thousand, who call themselves
"active politicians" If the upright merchants,
mechanics, laborers and Industrial masses. per-
severe in opposing their tyranny. Unless they
can howl down the reform agitation, that which
they most of all things dread--work and an
honest livelihood-will be forced upon them,
or they will have to betake themselves to open
crime, and be provided for by the city and
State in conformity with our penal laws. Their
terror is not to be wondered at. 1t will grow
upon them from day to day. Meanwhile they
have no funds; their budget of schemes and
lodges is empty the articles they employ to
impose upon, or Brighten, the leaders of the un-