Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-10
The Peace of New.York City.

That able and independent journal, the New
York Freeman's Journal in commenting upon the
letter of remonstrance of Mayor Gunther against
withdrawing the organized militia from the city of
New York, says:
No man who takes the pains to converse with
the people can mistake the threatening aspect of
affairs. Pass by the vast body Of ay-laborers-
with their wives and families. Let US come to
skilled mechanical labor. few days ago, an ex-
pert ship-carpenter, earning extra wages on being
pressed to know how it was faring with honest
labor, acknowledged almost with tears in his eyes,
and as if it was matter of shame, that he could
not properly take care of his family. He said that
his wages was three and half dollars day, but
he had wife, and We believe, five or six children.
After paying his rent and getting the painest
clothing for his family and himself be said be had
not enough left to feed his household-he had to
resort to expedents-to buy fish, not of the most
wholesome kind. That the stuff he bought for
coffee was not coffee, but made him sick, and he
had given it up, &C., &c.
How then, is it with laborers at less wages p
Those with families, who at living rates, are the
most quiet must be worse off, Those without fam.
lilies or responsibilities are always reader for mis-
chief.
Neao York city is, this day. Without knoping it,
resting on thin crust, wiM terrible ooleano BE-.
meath it!
Our paper, in this city, circulates and is read
only among those who are the friends of law-who
desire the public tranquility. Therefore we can
speak the more freely.
Mayor Gunther, in his letter, puts his objection
to the calling off the militia on the ground of the
public peace Might he not have put in the plea
were not Milling to 60, as We well know, and that
they were not liabley
The militia are indeed, the proper protection of
free State, and we hold that every man. not by
law exempt ought to be enrolled and armed-not
to be marched out of the State, but to preserve
law and common rights within it. general arm.
ing of the whole militia, Including the body of
the people capable of bearing arms" will be our
only protection.
The law abiding character of the militia already
organized in this city needs not to be vndicated.-
Nevertheless, it is to be remembered, that the
grievances of the times bear them, on others
for they are not generally, of the wealthy class.
Their wives and Children need fuel and meat and
bread, like the families of the rest of the people
They are part Of that very people on whom the re.
suits of this war are beginning to press heavily.
Coffee and tea and sugar are also very grateful to
the tastes of other people. The tens of thousands
of returned soldiers ard their families are not very
different in this respects and if deprived Of things
they have heretofore looked on as necessaries, it
may be doubted whether they will find full salts
faction for the loss in the thought that favored
ciass-a shoddy class-a class Fronting by the
sorrows of the country-sre heaping up enormous
fortunes while the families of toll are approaching
starvation.
1t is well for prudent men, who have much to
loose, to look these things in the face Every day
this war is continued accumulates new millions Of
public debt In other words. destroys millions
worth of common property, and mpovershes, more
and more, the people,
The day will come, when all this will reach a
Dt VI stcolc Sc
The of true wisdom, is to foresee the danger
and to provide against it-by no folly of attempted
coercion when the moment OF agony comes-but by
preventing the discomfort and alleviating the mis-
cry before hand The question will soon be peace,
or palpable ruin!