The New York herald., 1862-02-17
NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1852

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS LEGISLATION AT AL.
BiNY.-iiow is the pious, moral and religious
Legislature getting on? Why does 1t keep
toiling along like an overladen donkey, in
stead of dashing ahead like Broadway railroad
car in the good time coming? Is it because the
lobby is disorganizeds Why not reconstruct
it. then. Speaker Raymond has a plan for a
new lobby, and his committee has been sitting
upon it until it must be as dead as the subject
OF coroner's inquest, or as spoiled as an egg
nested too long. Why is not the Honorable
Speakers plan dragged away from the commit
tee, guaranteed into life by strong resolution,
and unanimously adopted? A lobby is needed
to attend to the Concert Saloon bill. Is it pos
sible that there is any truth in the rumors that
the honorable Legislators intend becoming the
pretty waiter girl lobby themselves?
This Concert Saloon bill ought to be hurried
through by all manner of means, and the sooner
the better, perhaps. After it has passed we
want bills for the abolition of all hotels where
girl walters are employed, and expect to see all
our theatres and opera houses closed because
pretty girls frequent them. After that, there
are great many houses of very bad repute in
New York, which the honorable members
know-much better than we do-are disgraces
to the city, and should be shut up. Drinking
houses are denominations, and should be abol-
ished by the Legislature. Gambling houses
need legislative attention, and among them we
include the shops Of Wall street brokers' the gift
enterprise Office Of the Tribune, and the betting
stall of the Times. Last, but not least, there
are the abolition conventicles, which Should BE-
Immediately put down; for, above all Wees That
of abolition is the worst, and no promiscuous
assemblages of the sexes are half 80 reprehensi-
BILE as those gatherings of long-haired, long
bearded abolition fanatics, which have already
brought the country to so dreadful pass, and
are plotting and scheming now to make bad
worse. Pray let the Legislature attend to these
little matters Immediately
II the Legislature can stretch its power far
enough to close the concert saloons and deprive
the pretty waiter girls of employment, it can
surely find means to destroy all other places Of
amusement, from the theatres to the churches
Ever since Beecher became popular and made
himself plenty of imitators, churches have been
as great places of amusement as any playhouse
on record: sermons have been transformed into
funny lectures and psalms into comic songs.
Do not churches, and the pretty girls who sing
in the choirs, need a legislative purgativc also,
then. And. while our Albany reform.
es have their hauds in we insist upon
...cir deciding, by a special act, which is
the true religion. Pagans Protcstants
and Papsts have been dispusIrs abQut
religion for centuries. Mahometans lsraelites
and Greeks are at loggerheads with each other
and all other sects. EpiscOpalians, Methodists,
Presby yterians, Baptists, Congregationalists,
Dutch and dozen other churches are each
sure that they have the true religion among the
Protestants; while all other sects have also
their splits and schisms, and Swedenborgians,
Unitarians, Trnitarans and Spiritualists hang
about The crowd Of their conflicting brethren,
and each also claims TO have exclusive charge Of
the only genuine pathway to Elysium Besides
these, there are numerous people who hold that
every onc-good, bad or indiiiercnt--will be
saved, and numerous other people who declare
that there is no God, or Heaven, or anything Of
tut h"iu' 'u'c tHc bVBiSth'uiS ua' SOHc lutO
the religious business. let ii pass an act deciding
whether there is any such thing as true reli-
gion, and which church is the genuine one.
Nay, our pious Albany brethren might even
60 farther, and make Us all saints by act Of the
Legislature. This would be u speedy way of
converting the nation, would eaectually do
away with all missionary, tract and other reli-
-
Devil that the old fellow ha. ever received since
Cromwell's time. Let them do this. and they
msy black mail all the pretty waiter girls they
please, and we shall say nothing about il.