The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-10
The Tyrsnny OF tho Sunday Laws.

Tho Tyrsnny Of tho Sunday Laws.
The Police Commissioners have passed resolu-
tons to sustain the obsolete Sunday laws, aud
the Superintendent of Police intends, we under
stand, to carry out those resolutions by vigorous
action to day, insisting upon every place of re.
fieshment in the city being closed. In such hot
weather as this before the people are de.
prived of the means of shaking their
thirst on Sunday by harmless glass of
beer or wine and water In houses of pub
Lie resort, the city authorities ought at least to
furnish them with the means of getting drink
of water and public fountains ought to be estab-
lished in every part Of the city, instead of few
and far between in Broadway.
The whole drift of this measure is against the
working classes and the poor. The wealthy can
go to Long Branch or Cape May, or Newport or
Setatogs, and to thousand other places, to en-.
joy the fresh cool air Of the country; or they can
afford the necessary time and expense on any
day Of the week to take trip into the country
in the steamboats, or railroad cars. Not so with
the mechanic, the artisan and the laborer, and
hard all the week. Sunday is the only day they
can call their own, and they are deprived of the
benefit of this either by unjust aud unconstitu-
tional laws, or by the hypocritical and sanctimo.
NOUS course of railroad directors and steamboat
owners, who care just as little about Sunday as
other men, but pander to the prejudices which
they know to be fanatical, or to pretensions
which they know to be insincere. New York is
go situated-it is so central and so near to hume.
rous points suitable for Sunday recreation-that
if railroad cars particularly cheap trains) were
permitted to run, and steamboats, were per-
nitted to ply, multitudes would be taken into
the country in every direction, instead of loiter-
ing about the low groggeries of New York,
poisoning themselves with bad rum. They
would be 80 delighted with the country after
seeing it once or twice that they would never
lose an opportunity Of enjoying similar
pleasure. and they would bring their families
with them, instead of abandoning them at home
for the excitement of whiskey and brandy in the
drinking aaloons
This is the course pursued in Paris and every
where on the Continent of Europe, where the
population are most orderly and moral
In the HERALD of Friday last we pub.
hshed correspondence Of a Cork paper from
Stuttgart in Wirtemburg in which the writer,
besides giving an account of the Notifications,
describes the manners and habits Of the people.
In writing Of Ehrenbreitstein, the Gibraltar of
the Rhine" opposite to Coblentz, he says
yet the beautiful acacias and other tree, and shrpbs
With which the open space all round the for.catoos 1,
planted, have not been cut down. THIS is business
idea without seeing hem Of the beauty Of thsse panta
ors and the delightfully."- shady walks they afford 70 ali
classes who enjoy them without so much as pluckag
Iose Here walk on Sundays, holidays aud evenings,
citizens with their wives and daughters and countless
soldiers green Hessans white Aussrans and DARK blue
Prusssus ard i'll looking indeed must be the serving girl
who has not soldier for her schaz or s~eetheat with
whom to walk Here too tables laid out In the open
air, at which all classes drink wine beer OF coffee wae
drunkenness or disorder OF any kind is rarely ever
seen.
This is exactly what we have often stated ia
these columns. The Germans here, one of the
most orderly elements of our population, have
established places in the open air in the suburbs
and rural districts around New York, They call
them Gardens" The operative brings With
him to those resorts his wife and children Che
best guarantees against disorder or vice, and
they drink together their lager bier, which re.
freshes but does not intoxicate. The innocent
mirth, the healthy, agey, and holy recreation of
these people are cut of, and their most sacred
rights are invaded under the Pharisaical pre-.
tence of preventing violation of the Sabbath.
1t is the Police Commissioners who are really
violating all that is holy in the Sabbath. For
what can be more holy than the enjoyment of a
happy family in the pure open air free for
while from the eorrodiog cares and sorroys
which beset them for the rest of the week.
The Ignorant superstition and arrant hypocrisy
which dare to interfere with the rational and
free enjoyment of Gods creatures Oh Sunday.
was rebuked by Christ when he told them, nearly
1000 years ago, that "the Sabbath was made for
man and not man for the Sabbath The Com
missioners and the Courier and Enquirer contend
for Jewish observance Of Sunday, as if il were
Of the same moral obligation as the Command.
ment "Thou shalt not steal" or "Tdou shalt MOI
murder" The religion Of the Jews was a rel.
gion Of ceremonies and those ceremonies were
abolished by Christ. Accordingly the early
Christians did not keep the Sabbath, or Seventh
day; modern Christians do not keep it now, but
they substitute another day for it, aud initiate
the Jewish Observance, which has no longer any
binding force; and this they do without any
authority from the Bible, which they tel, us
is "the religion Of Professionals" The whole idea
of the modern Pharisees is to make the people as
gloomy and miserable as possible, instead of
cheerful ioyous and hannv
A pious Wall street journal, which INDUCES ia
more than an ordinary share of cant On the sub
lect, reckons, by way Of disparagement, among
the citizens who signed the remonstrance against
the enforcement Of the Sunday laws, editors Of
Sunday papers and other Sunday occupations"
how, 1t so happens that 1t ia the editors of the
Monday papers who are occupied on Sunday, aud
In preparing and printing their matter for next
day, and among these is the devout editor of the