The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-01

and host of other high-minded supporters of
the democratic platform, who possess the conf
dence of the party and of the public, and whose
skill and ability may be relied on to pilot the
State and city out of the political dangers by
which they are surrounded. These gentlemen
have been started at last into keen and
bitter perception Of the appalling truth which
the HERALD has never ceased to inculcate that
what with the reign of Mozart and Tammany
Hall rowdyism, and the fearful crash and ruin
which triumph Of Sewardite treason menaces,
the very lowest depths of political degradation
have been sounded, and either the experiment
of free government must be pronounced fail
ure or the intellect of the mercantile and fnan-
cial portion of the democracy must vigorously
perform its duty.
Under the vile system of misrule, terrorism
and brutality which characterizes both the
faction at Tammany and that at Mozart Hall,
citizens of unstained and irreproachable repu-
tation have shrunk back from such association as
the very worst concentration Of depravity and
wickedness in the country. a grave and serious
analysis Of the lists Of General Committees who
have hitherto held in their hands the strings
of conventions, and who have been virtually
invested with the choice Of our rulers, and with
the power of presenting themselves as the rep
resentatives of the State and city at National
+ Conventions, would perfectly startle the un-
sophisticated among our readers by its terrible
Developments. 1t is the exact and literal truth,
that graduates from Blackwells Island and
from Sing Sing, pothouse proprietors Of the
lowest and most degraded description,
keepers and owners Of the ilthiest dens
Of disease and prostitution, shoulder-hitters
and strikers-the history of whose exploits
is to be found in police chronicles
Of gougings, maimings and other execrable
brutalities--open thieves, pocketbook snatch
ers and burglars, are numbered among those
who are conspicuous at every period of nomi-
nations and elections, and who have been here
toiore relied on to sway at will the popular
current. And when scoundrels like these pre-
sent themselves as delegates or in support of
delegates, at State and city Conventions, they
blend together with intriguing rogues from
Albany and the interior, and after having done
their utmost to plumber the city and plunge
it into anarchy, league themselves with such
men as Cassidy, Cagger and their associates,
to impose the corrupt rule Of the Regency upon
the State.
We rejoice to learn, therefore, that at the
private meetings Of the cheated and oppressed
gentlemen of the democratic party, who have
determined to repair the evils which have par
TALLY grown out of their own apathy and ne
glect, it has been resolved to ignore every one
Of the now existing corrupt cliques, both here,
at Albany, and elsewhere. Tammany Hall has
nothing to hope from them. 1t must die from
want Of funds. The Mozart Hall organization
mas =, equally little to expect from them, Il il
' y V0'supt as Tammany, and will be per-
'.leu 10 starye If the denizens of either of
tn''a want money, they must find resource in