New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-18

real object Of the mob. He was not good actor enough
even to carry ont the rlay, notice the effect of the
snanl motions be was putting; 10 the ad,Osrned
Chairman site and listens TO Mr.. Douglass, half an
hour after which he accepts another motion TO adjourn,
puts n, declares carried and on the principle sup
pose Of the old baad-'twce he slew the sLain'-that
even lie mob, when tice adjourned, was done with,
tai es his hat and valishes Most orderly Chairman
Some observers believe that BIZ. Fay came to the
Hall With the set purpose Of crushing the Convention
by mob violence. II used TO be said that no man was
ever really 80 wise Lord Tburlow looked" LIN the
same way these citizens think honest was ever
50 ignorant as Mr.. Fay appeared: incline however,
TO Relieve that Mr. Fay originally intended to- extis
guish the Convention in parliamentary way, but did
not knew bow: Like the captain Of Maine sloop
caught in our harbor narrows, Ia voice" All up !
| vLo when some ore asked "who's captain of that
,loop called back " undertook to captain her, but
End It's little too much for me-" SO Mr.. Fay under.
too much for him. Being fully determined, however,
to crush the Convention ard finding the qriet and
trained friends Of il able to outwit and outgenera him.
he took refuge 10 violence. He challenged his oppon.
ent to duel and then knocked him over tho head
with the butt Of the pistol while his back was turned
Lord George Benfinck leaped from the racecourse
an6 the spoitingh the leadership of the oase Of
| Commons. Perhaps Mr.. Fay fancied he could do as
mnch.
CLairnen Of common honesty, zee to IT, before they
quit their function, that Committee Of Finance is
appointed to coef somewhere the means OF defraynY
the exI snses Of the Convention. But Mr. Fay having
appAuie and hissesj does 30 By leaving the expenses
10 BE- paid By tie viims he has robbed. Hones,, OPP
plent msgnanimous Chairman! This was no. forget
ulness for when Mr. Hayes cautioned Dir. Fsy not to
| this honest Unitnsavins Chairman doubted If they
could corp>l him TO pay for the Hall he had used
His followers, too, gaaDt newspaper gentlemen were
heard encouraging each other with cres The police
are all riQht-the other side pay tor them, anc we
| ute themw TIE men he mobbed can say they were
never .ued for the rent of any Hall they had used
| Can Mr. Fay and his friends say as much
After the kid2loved mobOcrat had LEFT the hall, NJ
Sanborns ane,ly requesting the real meeting TO remain
seated while the mob followed their leader out Of tho
room showed them that theii labor had been ell thrown
away. Then Mr. Murray Howe, with no tansy vail
of parliamentary felton, outspoken bully, girdled
BY buhes falling TO provoke violent resistance incites
tie police to arrest all whom his followers struck, IN
order ley sad TO remove the cause OF the GSluro
| ance;" and the shameless Mayor closes tire scene
| [Hsses. The plot, unmarked BY the steady Perse-
verance of the friends OF order, dscoSs itse ard the
City suceors ts discounted aes by clearing the hail.
in the prostituted Of Law and Order Applause
have named the leaders OF this dSgraeeful ana law
ess riot and described TIE poor and trhlng quality OF
Il cir followers. You will ask me bow did such mass
influence the Mayer1 l regret to FAY, that In that
crowd were some men influential BY wealth and Po-
sition-uen seldom in Anti Slavery meeting,
and never at such hour, 10 O'Clock in the morning.
| They were silent, encouraging iookers-on Their
presence there and then in sIence, was an encourage.
ment TO the mob, their personal friends You may .,l
| zee, licking down Warrington street, the gilded
names of Lawrence Dickinson by their SIDE the
proud motto, "Tbe Union the Constitution, and the
| Entorcement IF the Locs." lApplause.l
| Amid that lawles mob you might nave seen one OF
| those Names which the city has hitherto loved TO
honor silent and supposed to be asserting, while hs
personal friends trampled the most sacred " all
nws-free speeeh-and considered him, present at 10
unutus an hour, in meeting of class meyer ire
oue ted by him. indorsrg their outrage. Does the
servility Of the Mayor need any other explanation
Some men say free speech was really crushed that
day in the CITY OF Boston. Oh, that same day that
| ssue Convention met aud the very speakers whose
names most hateful spoke their thoughts on me
outrage itsel and the general topic OF Slavery The
exact truth is Mr.. X. =. Fay stole fremont Temple
| from those who had engagedh Let us hope he VIII pay
bis debts without going through the Coutsl D ouot-
-s be and Ls lends intended to crush free speech
But let M not dignity Jack Sheppard and Diekinss
| Pagan into Cromwell and DonapaIte. These mooo-
Gratis meant TO be Cromwels. SO did the two tallors
who plotted to tear down the throne OF George Ill,
ard iisued the famous proclamation beginning, ave,
| the PEOPLE Of England" &c. History does not record
that they succeedtd neither did their mitators on the
bird Of this month Still, ,hcse angry and Tlsgaided
men incurred very grave responsibility. Stealing q
hall is not very bad in men who do not know enongh
TO under stand their actions Violating the rights
Of cir neighbors may be forgiven since the wrong
coeIs live repent and the rights no moro affected
by their sn than the sun by the last cloud tina. damned
But when Mr. Fsv had housed himself in luxury and
quiet u night, that awless and coward spirit he had
stirred MP and let loose broke into the houses OF oar
hated deien seless colored population pursued any one
Of them found alone and dsredto follow cruelty beat
almost to death several and illtreated many OF them
| III any one Of those maDged men had died OF his
wounds Richard Fay woudhave been in the sight Oh
God aud all honest men, If not Of The law also muir
derer The atonement he owes to the city be has ms
praeed il pubic acknow edgment OF his great crime
against and sacred rghts The reparation ne
owes to men piag ed and beaten by his followers ia to
see that g. far AZ gold can, their suferings are aev-
ated. Let Ms hope the wealth and influence w1eh
countensnced him in bis wrong will move ana AID Lim
IN his atonemeLt.
| This Iicture il one Of men undertaking work for
which their education never fitted them-the common
mistake Of our American life. There are thousands
among US whose life Is routine or mechanical ous
whose souls grasp all duties and lake IN the Universe
Critical Occa.iOns unya the user OF such sprits ana
these telf rade men are the special glory OF our ns
buttons. There other men wholly subiued 10 the
| poor round thew work in. The affair we have been
considering was an attempt to take part in public de-
bate aud preside over Il public body, by men whose
very souls are absorbed in pricing caiicos shaving
| rotcs and adding up columns OF figures IL was
.ngr lar sight White men, educate III the hest book
scl oOe how ignfly they were defeated by two color
cd men, whose only education has been oppression and
the Ali.Slayery enterprise! In,a' eonihes OF parma,
mentary kill, these two steeFed skIiin'y clear OF
every Inirtske-theiT opponents plunged deeper ana
Gtclcr IN folly at every step Oh cUurne on the hgher
question Of grand Historic al sacred right, there was
no c.uTaIs0n between the two sides History eiters
| 10 oDOter Tsrals than tie French Convention ray
cite and Mirb, au assailed by the fshwomen OF the
| stl eete.
Let uf tum now to the part Of the City Government
| in Il is affair."
| EyeIy man eligible to Office is the cardinal principle
and x,tiue Cf Our institutions. With fired by in
ttufe love of wealth and continent given us by God
TO subdne-to crowd the Wilderness with cities, and
join the by roads Trade and material interests
mutt absorb ali tie honest energy Of each generation.
Tie consequence is that polli has To- CONTEXT itself
with the lcavii rs. Men popular because holding no
dcci,iye OF iioa men without grasp enough t. man
age large affairs ard with much leisure therefore on
ii cir ands are tie To- Of politics. The consequences
| i. Ms In Tocnnsye has Noticed. that men VINO take