Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

lous expense maintains and eleanses them. Its
highways and by-wsys breed sin and crime
I yet officials loiter on every crossing. Police
commissioners, and captains, and courts, at
tended by retinues which no man can number,
are paid for guarding life and property but the
most daring ofenses 60 on unwhipt till public
vengeance demands an example. Justice has
been made commodity, and the judicsry has
sunk so low that the continent was electrified
when Judge Barnard, plucking the ermine from
the dust, sent forth his Injunction, to stay the
most stupendous robbery OF recorded time
/ Elections are an insulting mockery, and official
records Of votet-records Of the peoples will
I vouchers and warrants the highest and most
| solemn known TO US, or 10 the Constitution
itself-sre but forgeries of thimble riggers, and
the sport of those who jeer at dccency Com
merce is driven from our wbarves because our
harbor is a field fof rapaci0us extortion, car
ried on by State officials Ia the nnme Of quar-
sntine, wholesome traffic stands waiting at our
gates, while, in the name Of health. contagon
enters with tribute in it, hand. The London
Times cautions the world to beware Of the har-
Dor Of New York with its ruiuous exactious
and tie Health office floats Ike a rilied buoy,
warning the ships Of all nations to keep aloof,
and steer for PORTS in other States or 10 the Brit
ish Provinces.
Liberties and rights respected in foreign
cities find no sanctuary here. la Catholic
Dublin AMI Cork. men and women can parade
on Protestant anniversary; bu; in New York
they are iicially ordered from the streets, in
words iuet'ug other sects 10 riot and then, at
the beated tehest Of a Governor, the military
shoot down the deiudei victims OF religious zeal,
whom an stisct Police Board aud craven
Mayor have ured and battd to their fate. Nor
s,r1rs taxes are laid On pro erty sul wrurg from
toll, to bTihe Legislators aud electors, and 90 fat
ten the eluttony and support he pcmp and
spendor OF men who outshine kings in luxury.
The debt OF the city is said TO be about Sl0O. .
100000. More than S6O,NJJ.0 600 has been
crested within less than three years. TINS
mortgages every foot Of land from SpUyten Duy-
vii 90 the Btttsry for more than one-jellh Of IT'S
valuation The slme rate of expenditure con
tinuei for a while would have bsuKruprei and
evisceTated the County of New York But
better in the end han the money itself would it
be 10 know what has become OF it We know
about part of il, but not the worst part Some
Of ], has beer Appropriated by individuals 90 en-
rich Themselves, aud this is probably the east
guilty use that has heea mai- Of it.
r.NNANY AT ROCHESTER.
These srs some of ;he footprints Of T4mm4uy
legislation. and in spite OF ai its crimes against
honesty, 10 spite ofaIl ita shameless, crimson DO
quty, ~ su.ie Of its detection ard exposure. TO
spite Of i,s having p'ualerel the community
snt then laughed TO its fscs Tsmmauy Hall y.t
rules the Democratic party Tsttoaei irom
head 20 foot with acsusst.1as undeaiei, tlis-
tered ard branded with confessed tetlayas
Of public trust, the incarnation of political
and Cfi,.a in, tut uuswel sni uuabsshei.
these ast-te managers went 20 Rocheste-,
and met the State Convention. sni IL was
theis. They demanded Go be recognized not