The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-30


Peiho should yet be heard ON the banks of the
Ganges
REVOLT OF INrELECr AGAINST RowDYIsM
AND PoLrTIcs.-It is the last parcel that breaks
the camels back, the last drop that overfows the
cup. The late scenes at Wieting Hall, in which
the leaders of Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall
played their parts, have completed the revolt
which had been long rising up in the public
mind against the rowdyism and corruption of
these organizations, by which the legitimate
influence of men Of character and honor and
standing in the democratic party has been null
lifted, and tyrannical usurpation worthy of
Robespierre and his associates in the French
Revolution, established in its stead.
The conduct of the representatives of Tam
many Hall and Mozart Hall and their affila-
tons at Syracuse, the plots and doings of the
Regency both previous to and at the late
Convention, the congregation of traitors and
cut-throats, and political butchers and rowdies,
and roughs and shoulder-hitters, and DULLES
and bruisers, and Short Boys and Dead
Rabbits, and gamblers and thieves and
vagabonds of all sorts, have so aroused
the public mind that we would not
wonder if the indignation would ere long
take the shape of Vigilance Committee. The
respectable portion of the democratic party in
particular are so disguised with the scoundrels
that they are determined to rescue the party
and the fortunes of the country out of their
haAis. The 'Tammanyites and the Mozart Hall
men are now both on collecting expeditions to
raise funds, for the ostensible purpose of carry
ing the State election to successful issue, but
far more likely to be divided among set of
knaves and robbers, with as much conscience
| as shark q wolf. We trust that they will
not be successful in levying this black mail,
and that every man will have the pluck and
the moral courage to give them fiat refusal.
| But there is another movement on foot an
Independent one, in favor of the democratic
ticket. 1t has been started by intellectual and
respectable men, whose characters are guar
antees for the honest application of the
money they may collect They are raising
funds with which to do battle against
VIM. H. Seward and his revolutionary princi-
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trust they will prosper in their collection, and
that taking the management of the election out
of the hands of the thieves and rowdies, they
will assume the control themselves, and thus
come off victorious in the conflict. By taking
this course they will deal double blow, equal
ly fatal to Sewardism and to rowdyism The
Tammany and Mozart Hall factions, which are
both alike, will be superseded and overthrown
They are disorganized and demoralized and
whatever they come in contact with they
disorganize and demoralize, like little leaven
which assimilates to itself the whole mass of
dough, or like gangrene in the human body,
which spreads and extends till it kills its
victim.
The cause is too sacred to be entrusted to
such unholy hands. 1t is the cause of patriot
ism-the cause of the Union and the constitu-
ton against the reasonable designs of Mr..
Seward, who contemplates the dismemberment
OF the federal republic, in order that
he may be monarch of the Northern
half of it. If the black republican
ticket which endorses his ideas should be sue
| cessiul, ne would thus become the most promi-
nent man of the party, and his doctrines would
gain such an ascendancy in the Northern mind
that ne would have little difficulty in the inau-
guration of his long meditated revolutionary
movement, by which he may destroy the coun
try shatterng its united and irresistible strength
into powerless, helpless fragments, destined to
be the prey of each other and of all nations.
| 1t is necessary, therefore, to make ample pre-
parations for this important issue, and the first
step is to ignore the existence Of the Regency.
| and OF Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall. whose
rogues and rowdies are unfit to be trusted with
the handling of money, or with the management
! of political issue which involves the fate Of
the country now and for all future time.