The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-15


Hationaf nmect Of the New Work Reform
Movement southern and western
Views OF It.
We publish elsewhere to-day two articles o.
the new reform agitation in this city, copied
from journals in distant and widely distinct
sections Of the Union, as an indication Of tho
feeling excited everywhere by movement
and political agitation having national objects
and the great good Of the whole country at
heart.
A few gentlemen, men of position and wealth.
in this city, who have long been accustomed to
supply their party with the snews of war in
election times, Disguised with the practices OF
the rowdies who had obtained the control Of
the regular organization Of Tammany HALL
have taken stand and declared that the wishes
of the respectable portion Of the community
shall be considered in the nominations for tho
coming city elections. Having no wish to oh.
tain Office themselves, they only proposed that
the canvass in this city and State should be
conducted on national basis, and in direct op-
position to the brutal doctrines Of an irrepres-
sible conflict between different sections, as pro-
Yet this single and patriotic wish has found an
echo in every State, and now, from the remote
Southern and Western corners Of the Union, it
comes back to them in shape which shows
that the cord they have touched is one that
comes home to the hearts of the people every
where. All long for the same unselfsh and
national action which the New York merchants
thought to apply only to their own immediate
interests in this State.
The extracts we publish to-day prove to
them how important will be the influence Of
their action, though they limit it to our own
local affairs only Begun by the meeting of a
few gentlemen at the Everett House, who again
met in larger numbers at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, for the purpose of taking our city nomi-
nations out of the hands Of the State prison In
fluence which prevails in Tammany, they have
begun to restore to our metropolitan city that
influence which belongs to her as the CONNER
cial heart Of the nation The honest working
democracy, combining with the efficient portion
of the city authorities, have followed in the
same direction, and will no doubt cooperate
with the men Of wealth, though ranged
in q different organization. Thase have
only to hold on to the sinews Of war, and the
shoulder-hitters roughs and rascals that have
so long clustered around Tammany will desert
it too, for they always leave when the money
goes.
The necessity for such movement to purify
Tammany has long been evident Something
Of the kind was undertaken when Mozart Hall
sci up it's wigwam; but Mozart Hall harbors the
same class Of rapscallions with Tammany The
new reform movement does away with both Of
these, and scatters the hopes of their ragamufins
to feed the spoils of the better portion of the
community. Let the men of wealth hold on to
the sinews Of war, and declare firmly and con-
stantly that they will not contribute except to
support the nomination Of good men, upon
sound national principles, and their course will
awaken an emulation everywhere that will re-
dound to the great good of the country. By
doing this they can secure the city from the
hungry grasp of the Seward and Weed dema-
gogues, and help to redeem the State from their
tbrall.