New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-21
THE CONsEgviTI>u OF SEw-YORK.

4 mob il IA great, many handed aud braln-
les, beast. swollen by low instincts. aud IN
spite OF accidental and temporary chHalry. inll
OF feline trcachery, and no moro 10 be trust
ed than the man Of the mcnbgcric trusts hIs
bet Bengal tiger. The principle OF as'ocia-
ton. which is good or bad. as you use n,
takes from every member Of this hraving and
,umultuous mass the sense of persouai rc.pOn
sibility. If ne is no better, be - 10 worss than
hi. neichbor who is believing ard bullying b.
side HIM; aud great not las az least The
door re.pec,ablty OF numbers. II finds also Ger.
tain Standardization, in the lac, iha; 10 po.,rs.
leaders. however worthless. Tee men, d. sc
may call them by that name, whoilavr during
the last few days murdered eUi m9iaudrd
m this city, would have been FAR he's b'li and
far more ca,i.y beaten, if they lad not believed
themselves TO be possessed of the sympathy OF
other men who cat. themselves respectable
men WHO do indeed wear fine linen, live
in large houses and fare ,unptuous,l every day.
But for these the rioters would have confined
Themselves to feeble demonstration. which the
ordinary resources OF tie police would have
easily suppressed. Iae conditions OF great
mob are twO the presence Of large aud
thoughiess AID violent population, and OF others
who are wiling to use 1t Tor their own per.
sona purpose. We respectfully ask the quiet
and orderly portion of the country TO remen-
Der that both these conditions are fully answer
ed in every large city, aud that great civic I'M
portance implies a great civic peril. We should
ike to have pointed out any place OF metropO-
Titan proportions in Europe or America, which
has not been occasionally harasscd by these
popular outbreaks. The London Tsmes, when
il shall read us its lecture upon the untoward
events Of the last week, VIII conveniently for
get that modern printing machines were STEALTH
Is introduced into It's Office, because it feared
the violence of the handpressmen thus to be
thrown out Of employ mcnt. IL wall not have
word to Say Of the frame breahersoi Nottingham,
nor Of the riots in Bristol and Birmingham.
The Emperor of the French will not remember
that bee owes his throne to the mob which
pushed old Louis Philippe from his regal stool.
The Emperor OF Ausirin will forget the extra
ordinary velocity with which his predecessor
and the srea. minister of his predecessor left
vienna. The PrG.san King will be Obvious
of the nIobs of the Prussian capital. But De-
mocracy can no more be charged with prodnc-
ing riots than royalty; and We wish 10 seize
this present moment Of recovering order, 10
declare our still mistaken faith IN popular III
slituiions-to declare, ratler, that our faith IN
their strength and ,isor Las been UNNECESSARILY
increased BY the ordeal through which they
have just triumphaniy passed 1t must now
be evident to the least rejecting. that there IL
noble aud controlling element III the popula-
tion of Ncw-lorh, which Is confined neither TO
the rich hor the poor, and which VIII not sub
NIT. except with It's absolute physical e1.
tinction, 10 tho domination Of the ruth.
less aud violent 1t persade' alike the
mercantile and the mechanical classes-it Is
the common feeling OF all who love Their wives
and homes aud children-it IA shared ALIKE by
tue millionaire, banker and the thrifty shop
kcepcr-;t has made itself lclt-it bns shown
itself sufficient 10 prevent the continuance oil u
mob, Of which the commencement must always
bo, 10 a certain extent ia tue hands Of pub
lic and social destiny. Ii Democracy is to be
arragned Tor It's wees, let Its virtue. bc re-
membcrcd. II the CONSUMPTION is to be charged
with this riot, lot it be remembered That the
quiet Of thc city depends at this moment upon
the arms of citizen soldiers ard upon the ba
tons of our citizen policemen If masses have
destroyed our peace, let us remember that