The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-17

house pr0prietOrs, g0ugerS, stabbers, manners,
nOse-biters, shoulder. hitters, with whom II is
dangerous to associate, have become the arbi-
tiers Of taxation, justice, personal safety, and Of
liberty of opinion ITSELF This vsgabond Off
securing, does not bear more than the proper
ton, in society that disease does to health; but
the evil is as spreading and tenacious as lepro-
sy, and has gradually assumed forms Of tyran.
ny that are intolerable.
The number of voters in the city of New York
epproximates to from seventy-eight TO eighty
thousand. Seventy.five thousand of these, pro-
badly, are order loving citizens, who shrink
from active connivance with the evils by which
the community are oppressed, and would
readily cooperate with any legitimate move
ment for its relief There infest New York,
however, some three to Ave thousand persons,
whose only means Of existence are politics.
They live by place, and consider the funds in
the federal and city treasures to have been
created for their benefit. They call themselves
'sactive politicians" and are either strong in
muscle or still more powerful in knavery.
Each among them, from the bloated contractor
truculent Of the seedy denizens of the Pewter
Mug is part Of rotten close corporation,
whose right to dictate nominations, hocus pri-
maries, and be bribed by aspirants to Office,
has been considered unquestioned The des-
polio sway of this rowdy minority, has been SO
fully resisted by the large masses Of our re-
spectacle and Intelligent men, that Il has been
practical impossibility to obtain a nomina-
ton or an election, without having, previously,
purchased their aid. As taxation hal increased
by millions, from year to year, and public
robbery has ceased to hide its nakedness, faint
efforts have been initiated to shake off the ter
rible iron yoke; but through miserable petty
jealousies, Incidence, and lack of zeal perseve-
rance, and unity Of action, they have been
successfully howled down by the Tammany
corruptionists.
The memory of past weaknesses influenced
the Fifth Avenue Hotel Democratic Reform
Committee, of which Mr.. Watts Sherman is the
energetic Chairman, in appending the following
clause to the circular which called together
the late enthusiastic meeting of the new
organization
IT. however, by continued indifference as TO their repre-
senatives the people Of New York choose to allow with
fairly represent either the whole party the taxpayers
the commercial interests Of the city must be inferred
that the acknowledged evils Of our party organization,
not yet sufficiently oppressive to enlist your
operation in producing remedy.
This signifies that if the intelligence, intellec-
tuality, honor and integrity of New York, do
not recognise the appalling dangers by which
the city, State and country are surrounded; if !.
they can be Kissed or yelled into cowardly in
action, by the vituperations, falsehoods and
sneers, with which Tammany and Mozart Hall
rowdies and their leaders will seek to over
whelm them; if they will not have patience with
the we'll meant garrulities and prolixities, the
fretful earnings, and the eloquent puerilities of
some of their colleagues; if they are not pre-
pared to encounter with frmness the usual de-
lection of the feeble, petulance of the jealous,
intriguings of the ambitious, and snare of
the traitors, and interlopers, they are deserving
of the calamities which their own folly will
have occasioned, and they must not complain
ofbeing the helots Of a vicious minority, whom
they outnumber at least fifteen times. The
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comprehended by the thirty-one gentlemen,
who composed the original executive committee
of the Democratic Reform Association, is one
of the surest guarantees of its success. It's
members are resolved to persevere in endcavor-
ing to accomplish what is right Adjunct ward
and district associations are emulating their
example, and are ready to aid them at the
proper moment. They have the sympathy and
promise of cooperation of influential demo-
Gratis in the interior. There will be petty
troubles and annoyances; but these will be
borne in business like, sensible manner, Just
as the every day anxieties of life are met en-
dured and forgotten.
Two reasons make it patent that the efforts
to secure the downfall of the plundering tyran-
ny of rowdy, shoulder hitting cliques, must, IL
continued, blot them out of existence These
are the present terror of these latter. and the
fact that the bone, sinew and heart of this city,
are not debased. We're Tammany and Mozart
Halls true representatives of the democratic
party, and of conservative feeling in New York,
we should have to record that, here at least
the experiment of free government had failed
We're parties similarly decayed throughout the
Union, military despotism would be relief
This, however, is not the case. 1t has required
a mighty shock to elicit the spontaneous out
burst Of wrath and indignation, against vio-
lence, treachery and misrule, which is now wit
messed in the democratic party; but it is per-
manent revolt of the industrial purity Of an
immense majority against martial rotfonness in
the community. 1t has met with hearty re-
Spouse throughout the land, and it is the COM
mencement Of work, the beneficial effects of
which will extend beyond the present genera
ton.
The NATIONAL EPISCOPAL CONVENTION on
MANIFEST Observation-Disclosures do not alto
rpther monnnnlizA the docfrina Of nifaaf doa.