The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-29
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r.. Rnsr. 81 Rswdyism and PsIiticai Cor.
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Thar. ara Facts stated In two leadlng articles
I, ma New YORK Herald which deserve the
$3.50 consideration OF all who wish well
=, -. .uc.sss OF the Republican experiment
n,sof ,hsss articles IL on " The Reign Of Row.
,,,.n . a. illustrated In recent riotous, cri1ni.
al and rurderous desnonstrations in North.
arm cities. The ether y on the Approaching
Municipal Elections Of New York." and re-.
wca,s IN abyss OF political corruption which
aust make the hardieat and most sangnfne
ssart back In horror.
The main facts alleged In the first article
are sst forth In greater detail by other Journals
of New York. The New York Democratic News
has an editorial column on the unspeakabie
ou,rsses almost daily psrpetrated upon heip-
las, women. The New York Express points
,,n,,ous,y 10 the arrests during the last quar-
,.r At the rate Of eighty thousand year, or
IN. IN every ten citizens Of New YORK lac
sr,,o,5 snesls OF the recent revival OF runian'
,.,n !, baltimore and Philadelphia. II asks
-. :. the cause of this bold and defiant
rowdytsn,, domineering over law ana oroai
and keeping respectable and virtuous eitixens
in eou,in ual fear And IL assumes that poll
tics. party politics, and the corrupt practices
connected with them, are the fruitful source
of the anarchy which is q foul disgrace 10 our
free Institutions, and q cause OF preJndice
arsins. democracy throughout the civilized
woridn Says the Hs,ad
"Tns political wirep ullers and managers Of cleo,
iisAs have for many years subsidized class ~ y,
men who have cheated th s,. s.a wofk. and to
commit every sort of violence. rms .ViHahs uas
been copnived at BY the eadIns men o. eaeh he
successful parties in the principle that Ihe
end jastifss the means And almost every atteinp'
70 bring the rutsns TO Justice has been
Thus iynpuuity for rowdy ism al elections mas sIau
nall, grown M among us and form idablc has II
beso,ns .hst decent citizens are afraid to go e the
who play into the hands Of the criminals hava aay
saance Of success. But tho evil does not stop here.
hs yoIsnns =, esetions. have 'hsttcred the in
s;ruction" OF Their masters, and made senerai row
s." . e s al Of The a
dTiv1ns us back 70 haIbarism. I'd politicians who
lave Obtained office through the fundamentally 81
the rowdies are under obligations to protect them
scainss the operation of the law. Ii they gil. On
the bench of Justice they throw the shield OF ther
own ignorant or corrupt Interpretation oil the
s..iats over tho cnlpri q, if they cannot do that
they administer the mildess punishment it is in
their row or 10 lNElcL IL fAScbi 10 scHt w
penitentisry the State prison the politicians will
soon get him ont. II one OF these DULLES - lndet-
60 9I ne eof He s ahh has
is so well organxed and is 80 Identified with the Po-
iihea parties, that he can never snner the penalty
of his crime. Either by hocus- pocus the Jury do
not asree. or new trial is obtained on frivolous
point Of Iaw-in some way or other justice Is rob-
bed of lts sacrifice"
The Herald says that to such an alarming ex-
tent has this dominion OF rowdies already
grown that the peaesabie and orderly portion cf
IN. sii.ess are bsg,nning TO consider svhethsr the
sommunity Wovld mot fare bsster-sohsther there
psuld no, be .sors sseurity for property aud life
and h,ab---undey a goreynment like thet Of France
Or Russia, than under the fresst sorermmen, ersr
dsrissd BY the srisdom Of wan. This is not the
first time that an influential organ OF public
sentiment in New York has pointed TO mon-
archy as preferable to the rule of the mob. In
the meantime, the Herald suggests Vigilance
Committee as the only apparent solution for
The growing difficulties.
In the other article to which we have re.
fsrred, the Herald asserts that official places in
that city are fairly put up to the highest bid
der, and nominating conyen tons knock down
the Mayoralty, the Corporation Counselship
EsnAtorships, seats In the Boards of Alder
men and Councilmen, to whom Will pay the
flcations, honesty, or that experience which the
position sought after, requires. 1t declares
that graduate from Blackwells Island and
from Sing Sing. pot-house proprietors of the
lowest and most degraded description, keepers
and owners OF the vilsst dens of prostitution,
shoulder hitters and strikers-the history Of
whose hideous exploits is TO be found in police
chronicles of gougngs, maimings and other
execrable brutalities-open thieves and bur-
glars, are numbered among those who are con-
spicuous at every period of nominations and
elections, and secure large sums from cand-
dates, varying in amount according to the ma
ture of tho ofilce in question, from a few hum
dreds up to twenty or thirty thousand dollars.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars are
calculated to have been divided up last year
alone among these vagabonds Of all parties"
This 10 not the fault of the people of New
York, rs intelligent and refined community
~ can anywhere be found, but it is the great
misfortune Of their excess of freedom - that
they have no check upon the mass of brutal
ity and rHf1anism which is reeking within
their borders; nay, that their worry institutions
make these hordes OF ruffians of consequences
and give them political power. We are not Mt
all surprissd at the frequent illusions to n
monarchy as the only ultimate ark of refuge
If they were separated from the conservative,
siavsholding States, "to that complexion y
would their freedom "come at last"