The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-20

KlnO. Inc cnOiceet gems OF the operas are per-
formed in the most artistic manner. This must
have very decided influence on the musical
taste of our citizens, for even the little boys in
the streets may now be heard whistling the airs
from the latest opera. And what house Is now
without piano? Twenty years ago such an ar
dcle of furniture 10 any house, except that Of
millionaire, was regarded a. curiosity, and q
good performer was still mere rare than piano.
Now musical cultivation has attained high per-
fiction among the ladies Of New York.
What has produced this change which has
taken place within the last ten years? We
are indebted for much of 1t to the revolu-
tons Of 1848, which have sent among US
a high order of musical talent and cultiva-
ton from Italy, Germany and other countries
Of Europe. Our musical bands are composed al
most exclusively Of those foreigners Thus does
the tyranny of the Old World rob it of many Of
its best citizens and sends them to the New, where
there Is ample scope and verge for talent and
genius of every description.
Soon the time will come when such promenade
concerts as those which used to be given at Nib
los and the Academy of Music will be paid for
by the city and be free to all our citizens in the
delightful shades Of the new Central Park; and
what b more, Sunday will be the principal day
for this innocent and elevating recreation.
Sunday Laws and Black Republican Popes-
The Time Tor = Rational Sunday Movement.
The social tyranny which the Puritanical
Pharisees would establish in this country,
though constantly reproducing itself in some new
phase, is always the same at heart. One Of its
favorite forms is legislation for the peculiar OBJ
servance of Sunday, and there 1t is protean.
Sometimes it is the mails that are to be
stopped on that day; then the lager bier places
must be closed; then, again, the newsboys must
not pipe their shrill notes. once in while
great effort is made to prevent the church MEM
bers from sending their ships to sea on that day;
and, as in the present rule of our city, some.
times they succeed in establishing Metropolitan
Board Of Popes with pious Pillsbury as their
chief inquisitor. At this moment they are
strongly and stealthily pushing their policy over
our city through the black republican Police
Commission, made to order at Albany, and i'm.
bued with all the spirit of the three thou
sand political black coats which that
party boasts Of possessing In Brooklyn,
not long since, they fought desperately
to prevent the cars from running on Sunday, and
now they are carrying on the same fight in Phi
ladelphia. Having their own carriages to ride in,
they wish by enactment to deprive all those who
have not carriage of their own of the luxury
Of ride on the only day when the necessities of
labor give them the leisure to do 30.
In advocating and supporting this social tyran-
ny they do not hesitate to apply the terms Of
infdel, atheist, scoffer at religion, and a thou.
sand other epithets, to all who differ in opinion
with them. This epithetical armory has always
been favorite resort of the black coat and white
choker tribe. 1t is not today that they have
fret reserted to it to oppose men who entertain
ed the belief that liberal and rational principles
were as suitable to the people as they were to
their rulers. The great apostle of the right of
self government Jeferson-was for years the
aim of these epithetical missiles becanaa ho would
not believe that one man could govern men bet
ter than men could govern themselves,
and because he entertained philosophically
Christian views in regard to Sunday. - We
have before US now several copies of the Phila-
delphia Gazette, published in November, 1902, in
which President Jefferson is abused like pick
pocket and termed can in6del," can unbe-
lever" can opposer Of the Gospel" and all
Christian people are called upon to oppose him
and his measures to the bitter end if they have
any hope to get into Heaven.
Now, this is just what the black republican
Board of Popes and the pious Pillsbury call upon
their followers to do. Every Sunday he goes
around, claiming to hold the keys of Heaven
when they are nothing more than the keys of the
Broome street lookup; and should any poor
fellow dare to look glad that he had one day in
the week Of freedom from toll, forthwith he is
ordered to the station house. and pious Pillsbury
and his Puritan Popes take solemn joy for
having saved fellow creature from the sin of
gladness on the Sabbath day.
This proceeding is part of system of tyranny
which these black.coate ecclesiastics wish to
establish in all things. Jefferson saw the evil,
and fought with it as long as he lived; and if the
citizens Of New York wish to preserve their
rights, they must continue the battle against this
fanatical despotism. And to continue it success
fully they must organize their battalions and be
prepared to march in solid phalanx to the polls
at the next State and city elections. Bring out
your banners, oh! ye men of rational aud truly
Christian Sunday observance, and assert, with the
Great Founder OF our belief that "the Sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath,
The WATERING PIACEs-APPRoACHING TERM
NATION OF THE SEAsoN.-It will be seen, from the
letters of our watering place correspondents that
life in those latitudes is becoming rather prosac-
If their efuaions reflect at all faithfully the en-.
joyments to be met with there, we must say that
dnlness Seems to he the nrauailinn infnonno