New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-12
SUNDAY AVID PoLIrrCs.


sunday AND POLITICS.
The laws Of this State, now az ever, designate
the first day Of tho week as one of rest from ordi
nary labor, and Of opportunity for religious worship
and moral Improvement on the part Of those who
sec fit TO devote their time and thoughts to such
uses. II weuld seem hardly necessary to add that,
if Sunday is to be the weekly day of rest and wor.
ship, it cannot well DO the weekly day Of frolic,
mopeymakiog, and boisterous dissipation as well.
II may be one or the Other-devoted to Bscchus
and Momus or to the living God. 1t cannot well
be to both. At all events so cay the laws OF New
York, as they have existed from time whereof
the memory Of man rupnetb not to the contrary.
All this has probably nothing to DO with our cur
rent politics. There are meu of all parties who
reverence the Christian Sabbath, while there are
men of all parties who disregard it. II there be
any who imagine that the People of our State, or
of any State, wish the day devoted to iddling and
dancing, games and sports, they have perfect
right to appeal to the power which makes legislators
for change Of our laws which shall adapt them to
their views 4sa.4.g o..
bath crusade have no idea of this. They are using
it mainly as a weapon of ofiense against the RePub'
lican party. While the most strenuous Sabbatanan
journals of our City-The Obserrer and The Jour
nal Of Commoee-are animated by the deadllest
hostility to the Republicans the Sunday and aflil-
ated oracles are trying to draw all the loose and
reckless pleasure-seckes of our City into an atti-
tude of hostility to the Republican parts i."" ma
tired OF the Christian Sabbath Witness the follow.
ing from the ast issue of The Sunday Mercury:
THE SUNDAY LAW AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
III. s.bbutsns who trying TO rule this country whs
s s .ss a%s who wo.
every ship steamboat railroad and conveyance oil any ko
These putans are Pre.byeran the
only sect that i iibeIai g iansicsm me EPcopaans
BsIs Unsrisn and Methodist are not Injected WIN these
The .nstsi saOOssian then, are IN minority and not
large minority Their whole from the face q being
able one e. The sss RiR Ssas sso
he Isge authorize. whs are Tying to enforce y eye hspSo
leans Tar Tssrss which upnOd' is the chief ne
the fsgsbHssn ss which I .s 70 as sss from
sunday and cOse place where the poor man cen guy re-
Il Tas is sssS End sSs sabca poor
men: Miserable be ssptat fo you
be kept sober bat when - yeu outoi yoa
beasts Of yourseyesr II they who "You may resi-.
syils sha not yogSseyes Hide yoaf
"feunels you win but shall not 20 the country yon
together No music bit psalms and no drink
Who says ths PresbytlisnislP uliIsnlsm, which be-
strides the patty a. the Old man OF te See oss,fode
sirbed The Sailor and that party VIII DC held Tor
this despotism $50. -
United there not Thousand Germans
who do 10. feel Sunday be oppressive and nsng
The German Catholic 1eaGcrmsns OF every class
have feeling about Sunday laws From Lutbsf tn
whe be could put hi. best clothes ha friends and
Sba h t lsai e Il qph is french s.. tie
ali Liberal ffotessnt bects unirp with
care Tor no creed or hold that tie ssb5 made fOr ap
and not man for the Ssbbsthr II -
social desposnl Of all despotisns. If The Re-
pubcsns Of peist ia this neanes Of all desposn
them no Psbyfesn psyno party which uses IFS power TO
carry views of
eeed this country 1t viii array the entire foEe and all
he liberal Anistean vote Against ID rref- 4
We do not propose to answer this wretched
tumble of sophstry and audacious falsehood. We
simply call attention to the facts already stated,
and We notify the Democratic managers that they
will lot be able to ride both the Sabbatarinn and
anti-Sabbatarian horses much longer. And, if they
shall see tit to back their rumseng friends in their
present movement, they will find that their political
brethren in the rural districts who will not care
to sacrifice the Sabbath to party intrigue, may
have word to say in the premises.