The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-12
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The ESArk Republican Polsce Connusai asiosers
On sunday I.aws--pious Pissar,Gsy Lookioc
tier the Morals OF tho Pcnrs-.
PiouE Pilsbury, in obedience to the resolutions
OF his masters, the black republican Police Com
miss oners, went his rounds on Sunday last TO
see bow the poor people of the city respected
the religious behes.s OF what Is smoothly termed
"the prevailing religion" We hope be gathered
wisdom in bis ramnIes.
We have already aluded to the tyraunv which
these advocates Of the higher law visit t.
establish over our laboring population Oh .he
one day Of the week; but it would b. we'll for
the people to reflect, earnestly AMI deeply, op
the policy that is being initiated for If they once
permit tie pious Pisbury to interfere Win their
healthy relaxation and Innocent recreation on
Sunday, be will soon be claiming the right to d.
40 on other days The resolutions pa .s-d by tin
black republican Police Commissioners are. La
themselves, one Of the greatest assumptions Of
arbitrary power that can possibly be imagined.
They are OF piece with the policy which that
party has always advocated, and pc, they will
soon be frottjng ont their three xAousand clergy
men to insist that the poog man shall, not enjoy
the relaxation which the sanctimoniocs wealthy
taBe TO themselves, because, forsootd, the labor
ing man cannot ride in his own carriage and
drink burgundy and champagne instead OF lager
OF SUNDAY
The Metropolitan Police Commission il CON-
posed of ana supported By q set Of selfrighteous
black republican fnanciers III Wall street, who
assume that the object Of ali government is to
control the poorer classes, and TO tell them the
way 10 go il heavenly as well as earthly affairs.
Tney meet together in holy conclave, aud piously
resolve that the laws shall be executed tina; the
Christian Sabbath is part of the Christian re-
i'eiop; that this is the paramount rel gou of the
land; that the Sunday laws are TO be sustained
10y all the powers of the pious Piilsbury, and
that they know better what the masses Of the
people think than the people themselves.
The Police Commission was created as an
official body by black republican Legislature,
against tie wishes Of four.fHhs Of the people of
this city, and for the object Of governing it ID
direct opposition thereto for certain party pur-
poses Of their own. They are endesvoring to
carry ont the aims Of their masters the apostles
of the higher law " doctrine in Albany, aud it
matters little to them whether ia SO doing they
infics positive suffering on the laboring classes
or not. They have their fine wines and ready
coaches for their Sunday enjoyment, aud that is
enough for them The man who has not these
must not seek q more economical, but precisely
similar enjoyment, in harmless glass Of beer
or pleasant stroll in the woods.
But 10 assuming 10 become legislators for the
city, as well as its Police Commissioners, these
plsck republican fanatics have o7ershos their
mark. There is not laboring man in New York
who does not know that it is not in he power of
the Police Commission 70 determine what
is the paramount religion" of the country,
nor how the working classes shall deport
themselves on Sunday, Or any other day.
The ideas they emit, and the laws they
would establish, were well enough in
the Middle Ages, when men knew
little of their rights and enjoyed leas But they
viii cot do in the present age, when all men arc
equal before the law aud the same rule prevails
for the poor as well as the rich. The pioug
Pillsbury and his sanctimonious masters may re.
soive as much as they choose but the black re-
publicans viii never be able to erase from the
minds Of the American people the conviction
that here there is no paramount religion" nor
70 stop the growing conviction that these op
pressive Sunday laws are not only class legis
lation, which Expresses the poor without touch
ing the rich but are in direct violation Of rights
guaranteed by the constitution.