The New York herald., 1877-07-26
POOR SPEEcnES and NO ENTHUSIASM.
A Political Revolution the Working
mans Remedy.
AN ADDRESS To THE PRESIDENT.
Chartered Corporations tho Enemies Of The
Working Classes.
SUPERB POLICE PRECAUTIONS.

Yesterday Wednesday, morning was q specimen
American summer day-warm but not sutry, hot but
bright Tho rose early, according 10 tho almanac
aud whea beams struck the face Of every citizen
sleeper he turned In bed and said To-day either
begins tho great riot settles tho strike" That
preston uttered by 900 men AZ they confronted
their wives already awake. and man aud vile, re-
vardng the sleeping childron sad, "what is TO como
Of to-dayf"
NEW YORK ARMS
An knew that yesterday would havc had great
Interest except for the request oi the restless and
unistc classes to improve the occasion aud
hold public meeting In tho densest quarter OF New
York. Our Park ana Police Commissioners
suietIy acceded to this demand The relative
importance OF New York to tho rest OF tho Union
soud havo received no better testimonial than
shc tclcgraphic dispatches whSh flashed into New
York IRON every point OF the compass, saying IN
Jnect lf New York gives way before The n,oo, when
uiIl this thing end ?' 1--WE all looking 10 wednes
lay night in New York TO know whe,hcr this strike
spasm odc affair rebellion from undsrnssth ~
*Ths immense population OF Now YORK Is looked to
by all the dsorderiy elements for q nnal outbreak.
Can II be prcveutedY Why 40 your Police Com
sionors allow such a meeting at this criss!"
Such were the dispatches received by merchants
and other business aud professional people in New
York on Tuesday night, and they attest the power Of
such city As ours for good or evil upon the whole
country Smaller cities trsmbied in Apprehension OF
pur vast population rising up against Law and prop
srty; but in this cuy, general rule. the heads OF
men were leve. Nobody left town. Although the
trains were embarrassed all Sides oil Now
York, INC generic Partisan lie OF this
city was illustrated. overy day 10 tho week, OF
children out OF doors and and ompibuses running
10 and fro. Nobody had tho whi,o lips which Byron
described In Brussels ON tho night before Waterloo
Tho beautiful Wednesday morning broke upon u
bay lively with shipping, as full OF erryboais and
streaming with national 1ags At any time In our
history. Somo thousands OF dairy visitors TO Nov
York, who in Int at the ferries, bantercd each
other whom thcy landed aud asccnaed to Broadway.
They looked about them and said, "There is no look
Of riot here" But others, moro tmid. responded,
echo mornings never riotous We must wait until
night TO find our destiny out."
Even IN Wall street, thxt seat Of gamblers, lofty
io~ tho general inquiry was, .what will happen VI
Tompkins square to-nghtW Men answered. this ques-
tioa according their temperament, ana II was
ticeable that the ordinary business American did
bother himself about prevention, trusting to luck
every offence against tho law would redress ITSELF
Yet the stock market trembed underneath. Blun is
the game thai quarter OF the town, and he would be
cheap man who affected shrink before the posi-.
bilitiss Of communistic mass meeting. s.,
yRELISG AGAINST RIOTERS
In the central upper quarter OF tho town, where
great filled for interior and Western houses,
.hc merchants merely smiled aud said :-"rhis is tho
last day OF tho suspense Public opinion Is forming.
This meeting OF fanatics in Tompkins square alarms
some people. Butthe militia Of New York never
In be,ter gear earnest than now, ana trust
70 them."
AFTERNOON OUTLOOK.
About noon the HxRALD writer went up town 10 Po-
lice Headquarters People at distance who read the
HERALD may like 10 know where Police Headquarters
stands in such long, nsular city MS ours 1t is Of
white MARBLE rather narrow street, just above the
business mile and half OF the town and just below
tho resident two miles Mulberry street Is small
street parallel to Broadway. below what miaht DO
called FIRST street II FRS. street ran across
town. We begin numbering streets in New
York at nearly swo miIos above tho
Battery point Of the city. rhc rough and
iorcgn classes thirty years ago. took up their rcsi-
dencc in this neutral part OF the city, between the
business and American resident portion and these
glasses sIoped or the rvers-particulariy the
East Rivcr--which became the great tenement house
quarter Of Now York, Oiled with all kinds Of foreigners
especially with Germans French and other Continental
nationaltics From FIRST street 10 twentieth street IL
the neutral foreign quarter OF New York-a place for
theatres, Saloons nondcscript boarding houses cafes
&c The cly bulgcs here, tho east sdc and creates
hinge ellipse toward the East River or Williams
burg side In the midst Of this quarter is "a naked
square named, alte: q former Governor OF New York
and Vice President OF the United States Tcmpkns
square. This is the breathing spot or lungs OF the
German, tho foreigner, the tenement house,
the workingmen's ihc commuus,ic quarter OF
Now Xork itsclf
suggests IN slight degree the naked Champs
dc Mars OF Paris, although very small compared Its
French sn,etype Like the Champs do Mars, II 10
sandy, bare, pebbled and hot and 10 have been
swept Of all trees and ornaments for parade purposes
or possibly for holding mob In check. About four
years ago q workpgman's meeting was called
In TompXins square. and then, TO tho aslonsh-
ment OF New York, II that amoEg
rs were real socialIstc elements such as
had attempted to revolutionize Louis Philippe s
government at various times and had thrown PARIS
Into such CONSERVATION that despotsm always
welcome to business people therc Al the time OF the
aforesaid riot the red nas-that symbol Tor inrdsI In
cendiarism to Amori"ans-was actually raised on this
common. The man who carried IL WAS badly dubbed
ana was, therefore, dc quite martyr OF by his ad-
hcrenta He proved to bc cxpatristed European
Communist who kept a small lager Deer saloon about
. quarter OF mile from Tompkns Square Hts name
was Justus W. Schwab.
scHwAB.
At that time Schwab became an object Of sympathy
on account OF the complete humation OF the rioters
some amateur fanatics oi English and Scotch type
NJ ade such feature OF schwabs wounds In the press
that Schwab mounted to be a national martyr The at
tack o the police schwab and his rcd nag and
FIRST appearance Of Communism IN city OF Tho West
ern world was 80 enlc,cnt that New York had almost
forgotten until yesterday tho existence OF any social
ism in her midst But, HISTORICALLY, Just after tho
development Of The grcat railroad strike, schwaD ap
pcsred in the prints and at Police Headquarters as an
appellant for great meeting OF sympathy IN Tomp-
kins square Tor tho men who had just burned up
a. 600. 900 worth OF properly phtsburg and had
nod ali tho transportation OF the United statcs
Yesterday the HERALD writer went to schwsb's res
ssursnt. little narrow don in the basement OF I've
n,,rk bIock nm First street. The sign OF 'Justus