The Portland daily press., 1871-11-04

HE REFORM MEETING IN New YORK
Thursday evening, wac the largest gathering of
the masses of respec table people ever beld in
tue city. Among the speakers were Hon. w.
NJ. Eyarts, Samuel J. Tilden, and j. W
Choate, all of whom were received with great
enthusiasm Mr.. Choate read the following
annie st cheering:
81 an, II qlrsted 10 state that the political fun
efal of w NJ. Tweed will take place at the new
County Court House, in this city, on Tuesday,
Nov 7tb Rev. Ed wards Pierrepont will otfl-
cate. The hymn to be sung is that good old
tune Wy DR.. Watts, Believing we rejoice to
see the curse removed Archbishop O'Conor
with seventy assistants, will conduct the GER
vices. The text for the sermon will be taken
frou3 the gospels, Lcrd, by this time be stink
eth" The congregation are requested to at
tend"
lChoa.e's statement that the fight between the
wings of the Republican party, wings that
heretofore had refused to futter, fly or even
flap together, was ended and that they had re-
moved their differences and on Tuesday the
| lions of the Custom House and the lambs of
Horace Greeley would 90 to bed together. eIc-
| tied uproarious cheers long continued.
| The address of the Citizens Committee Of
| Seventy which was adopted states that there
| is not in the history of villaiDy parallel for
the gigantic crime against property perpetrat-
| ed by the Tammany ring. 1t was engineered
| in The complete subversion of free government
| in the very hea1t of Republicauism. An
| American city having a population of over
million was disirancbised by an open vote OF
legislature, born and maintained in Democra-
cy and Republicanism and was handed over to
selfappointed obligarcby to be robbed and
plundered by them and their coniederates,
heirs and assignees for six years and prospect
lively forever. The new city charter gave a
gang OF thieves power to govern this metropo,
lis: it substantially deprived the citizens OF sen
| control, nulifed the right ofsuttrage and NULL
| tes the principle OF representation. IL author-
lied HANDFUL of cunning and resolute ROB
| bers to levy taxes, create public debt and IN
| cur municipal liabilities without limit and with
out check, and placed at CHER disposal the rev
enue of great municipality and the property
sef all its citizens. The two years history of the
| charter is one of theft robbery and forgery
which has stolen and divided $2O,0OO,OOO
which have run up to the city debt from $36,
100000 in 1862 to $97 ,000. 600 in 1871 and which
Will be 1870, 600 600 IN August, 1872, and which
has paid TO those robbers millions of dollars
for work never performed and materials never
furnished; which created unnecessary Office.
with large salaries and no duty in order to mail
| tain force OF Iuffanly supporters and manu-
| factureIs Of votes; which used millions OF dol
lars to Dribe and corrupt newspapers, the or
gans CT public opinion, in violation OF the laws
| which narrowly limited tne puDllc ADVERTISING
which counted within the city reserve army
, | of voters by employing thousands OF laborers a
t / large pay upon nominal work, neither neces
. sary nor useful; which bought legislatures and
| purchased Judgments from the courts Dotf
; | civil and criminal.
This Tammany ring and its successes are
/. | the marvel of the worlds politics. Without
a | noise, without force and almost without tn
public knowledge they have accomplished ;
| revolution in the very heart of the American
= | Democracy and established an oligarchy o
t | robbers in the place of popular representa-
= | tive government. There is reason to dread tn
electric righteousness of this easy and protita
: Bile vIlainy. 1t may spread from New Yorl
| ted States till the American political SYSTEM i
menaced with lingering typhoid fever OF scoun
| drelism that may burn The manhood and v;rtu
all out of it. Our duty is to sternly judge an
l swiftly execute. IT we fail to overthrow tn
6 TammaDy rulers and annul their city charter
and ii we fail to send them as felons to tn
| State Prison and make them dsgerse wha
| they have stolen, will Lot the capitalists an
j. merchants of Europe logically conclude tina
| our institutions are farce, that the strengt
= of American credit is gone, and that it is un
9 safe to lend and sell to people whose ruler
are thieves and whose legislators are robbel
+ | and rascals. Will not European funds loaps
=, | here be recalled? Will not the important pe
gotiations for new loans besarrested? Will ne
l. our securities be returned here to be sold? Wi
"a not our orders for goods be refused? But
like manner as domestic interests of q poop
are proportioned~to its foreign interests as min
l. to one, SO that the home stake we American
e | have in the overthrow and punishment of til
20 Tammany ring is simply that of our nations
20 | life.