Year: 1869

in political life in one of these sister cities,
backed by letters of introduction from the
Manhattan Club, and the leaders of Alackerel-
vile; or whether this darling of the Democrats
be out at nurse in some luxurious back-bed-
room of one of our anstOcratlc City fathers,
kept from the vulgar gaze, bis hiding place
known only to the principal wire-pullers-
wherever he may be, there is no likelihood that
the hands of what we Newly Orkers, with
ludicrOus misapplication of terms, call Justice
will again get hold of him. Indeed, it must
be a subtitle student of human nature who can
explain, why this man was ever brought up
for trial at all. What is it that makes the
Judges summon these men to their presence,
when they know that they have no intention
of convicting them9 Why do the lawyers go
through the forms of arguing pro and con as
to the guilt of men whom they know to be
protected from punishment by the great party
that rules and plumbers this City Surely,
nothing proves more clearly than this state
of affairs that there is a soul of good
ness in things evil. These men might do
their evil deeds without even the pretense
that they are ashamed of them, or acBnowl-
edging their liability to be punished for them.
True, they are not ashamed OF them. Ihey
glory in them. They laugh at the exposure
of them, as if it were a huge joke. They are
comfortable in the belief that the general pub
lie thinks it Joke. The other night our
honorable Governor, surrounded by his suite,
occupied private box at the performance OF
the Forty Thieves. During the play fellow,
whose part it is to carry about placard with
II. n uraa gn
in tact-for we can hardly give him credit for
wit-as to take his stand directlya beneath the
Gubernatorial box, and fix his placard like a
sign against it, The audience, being composed
of taxpayers, Immediately saw the aDtness OF
the coincidence, and ripple of laughter ran
over the sea of upturned faces; while the Oc-
cupants of the box on discovering the cause OF
their subjects merment responded by gracious
leers and smiles.


This little incident throws considerable light
upon the relations of criminals to our, So
called. Courts Nobody is ashamed of 4
concatenate rascality that probably never had
its parallel in the civilized world Gov. Hotf-
man is not ashamed at sitting on a chair
of Office to which, by his own consent, and
with his own cOnnivance, he was elected by





not ashamed, after leaving his official duties as
Mayor to take care of themselves, and spending
a fortnight in Albany employing the faculties
with which an economical Providence has en-
dowed him, in swelling the tax-levy to dimen-
sions never before dreamed of, to write down,
and cause to be printed, in his annual mes
sage, that " We" Q e., the Democrats) " are
mot at all responsible for the City and County
"Tax- budgets of this year" In fact, we can
not imagine the political indecency that Mr.
Hall would be ashamed to commit. He is in
political morals the mOuntebank that he
showed his capacity of being in private life,
when he dressed himself in n suit of green to
please the chambermads on ST. Patrick's day.
Our Judges are not ashamed to wink at the
most serious crimes, and let the most danger
Gus criminals loose upon society. As for our
Common Council, their shamelessness is long
since passed into a proycrb. Their theving is
done so openly that if defects descended in
evitably, by inheritance, their children ought
to be generation of kleptomaniacs.


If, then, neither Governor, Mayor, Common
Council, City Judges, nor Lawyers are ashamed
of actions that everywhere else in the world
bring public and social disgrace upon those who
are guilty of them, why should roughs like
Reddy and Real be ashamed of such peccadil-
loes rs highway robbery and murder9 And Why
having no shame nor remOrse themselves, and
knowing that their felow-criminals in high
places (whOse crimes, indeed like their clothes,
are of the same WOOL but a little different in
dye and cut have no shame nor remorSe for
their oflenses-whyI should these criml-
nails either stop where they do III
crime, or consent with the authorities
to go through the form of a civil trial Some
little conscience still fingers in their compost
ton, it would seem; they have not quite rid
themselves of all taint of goodness But we
may depend upon it, they will before long get
rid of this unbecoming shameiacedneSs. They
will yet have the courage of their opinions
They will yet obey the voice which comes from
Tammany, Democracy expects every rough to
"do his duty And when they have risen like
one man Gas they will do one day, if we can
secure no municipal reform), and have cleaned
MS out from end to end when, scOrning by
ways, and sneering at subterfuges, they have
Quilted our houses, and overdrawn our banks,
and turned our pockets inside out, they Will no
longer put the judges to the useless trouble of
pretending to earn their salaries, nor the Gov
erpor to the labor of making up his mind to
sign death warrants; but all the crew. high
and low, will share the Swag in harmony, and
the Reddys and Reals will rule the roast.


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Mr.. Goodwin Smith made speech at Toron-
to on the 10Th inst, in which he declared that