The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-04

modern history. Mr.. Sweeny and Mr..
Tweed, in New York, are emuiating Baron
Baussmann in Paris, in supporting the pro-
Ietdires, and lining the pockets of the ring
by opening streets, laying out boulevards,
and ''improving" parks. In each city the
classes who pay the taxes, and represent the
brains of the community, are practically
shut out from all control of its affairs. In
each, also, the moral sense of the
young and ignorant is becoming corrupted by
the sight of so much successful yillainy
The vast fortunes and immense power of the
leaders of the ring will act gradually on the
moral ideas of our community, as did the
gambling successes of Morny, and the other
followers of Louis Napoleon, on the morality
of the present generation of young French
men. Fortunately for the influence of French
corruption and immortality on the world, q
great disaster has shown the hollowness and
wickedness of the entire French system. The
prick of the Prussian bayonet has burst this
bubble of foul gas. But to the American
world, the gilded structure of New York cor
ruption and rascality is still as splendid and
imposing as ever. No bolt from the judg-
ments that threaten it has yet exposed its
thorough rottenness and villainy. Still, for
tunately for America as compared with
France, New York has never assumed any
thing like the position of Paris towards the
rest of the country-especially in the politi-
cal field. Its jobbery and corruption have
been confined to its own limits, or to the
State of which it is the commercial empo-
rum.
II is true that, owing to it's enormous COM
mercial wealth, the city offers to audacious
and unscrupulous gamblers and adventurers
prizes such as Paris hardly presented to
Morny, Haussmann, and Persigny. AS our
able Albany correspondent has shown, they
are adding to the funds which they will con-
trol during the coming year some ST., 2,O0O,-
000 and for no dollar of this will they give
an account. Now what we desire our friends
in Connecticut and other States to understand
is, that the grand object of the New York
csnspirators is to extend their influence and
control over other States, and finally to
place their supple tool and instrument
in the Presidential chair at Washington. Let
no easy-Going Republican in distant
States say that this is a remote and un-
likely occurrence. We in New York know
these men. They are no contemplate
adversaries. Though they have worked up
from the dregs of society," their plans are as
wide-reaching as their means are audacious.
| They have the trickery of politics by heart;
they know the power of money; they control
an income in this city equal to that of many
| kingdom, and they carly with them an enor-
nous crowd of ignorant followers, who obey
utterly their beck and nod. They are strik-
| ing now for higher game than the Governor
| ship of State, or the commissions of q city.
| They have succeeded in throwing all the
administration of this city, employing so
many thousands of men, entirely into their
| own hands During the present electoral
contest in neighboring States, and the ap-
preaching Presidential struggle, they will
have in their power millions of money, and
| will use it without stint. They are employ
ing it to-day literally in Connecticut
The aim and hope of the New York Ring
are to transfer their power to Washington
| under Governor Hoffman, and to make their
| jobs and conspiracies national. Mr.. Hoff-
man will be their implement there, as he has
| been here. The same unscrupulous audacity
and unbounded bribery which have given
them power here, they hope will insure them
| higher rewards there. In the place of the
| petty income of city, they will have the
revenue of wealthy nation to job with
Where they plunder thousands now, they
| hope to deal with millions then
Custom-houses, foreign ministers, and al
the countless places of the Central Govern
ment, they will give out instead of petty
offices in parks, and docks, and court-houses
We shall then see a washington Ring,
under Tweed, Sweeny & Co., to which al
| New York or Paris rings have been trifes
| and corruption, bribery, jobbery, the vita
ton of justice and degradation of law, which
have disgraced New York under these men
| will become national and republican" We
| tell our friends in Connecticut that this i!
! precisely what Democratic success in theil
| State means. The connection between Gov
ernor English and Tweed shows this. A
| Democratic triumph means the triumph o.
| the New York RING