Show the te tendencies to anarchy i 1 I blob insubordination bord nation and rebellion are ire gettin gito be common occurrences the securities of life and property among asseem us seem beem to be diminishing in number and value very rapidly every mail mait bring brings sus uis lis some new case of popular 4 disorder lis order some new triumph oiher over constituted authorities in louisville ken Ker kentucky tucky the pe people ople opie have hav e been entertaining themselves with hanging banging and burning the bodies of three slaves who bad been tried for murder and declared innocent by a jury of kentucky freeholders it bis is only a few weeks since the whole country on the line of the baltimore and ohio railroad was disturbed by an armed collision between the officers of the company and some discharged conductors who would not submit to the regulations provided by the company for the security of prop ety Tty in the freight cars several lives were lost and the controversy was finally settled without reestablishing establishing re estable hon g t the he moral supremacy oc bf the public atlie authorities ri ti es both the cases we have named that in in louisville and the one in Bl aryland maryland were the natural fruits fruit sot of the feeble but vexatious governments Wished in bath those states by the know nothings they itley had strength enough to persecute people into rebellion but not enough to ensure subordination twice before this have the police and judicial authorities both of louisville and baltimore been ben put to open shame shamo by mobs until how the aid of the police ia Is scarcely of any more use as a protection protection to a mans person and property than an a certificate from his church pastor or sunday school teacher when a community have once learned that thag the public authorities can be defied there arg ari those among them not long in finding r some sufficient pretext for defying them and there is the end of popular government for despotism bilows follows anarchy aa as naturally as the fruit follows the flower are we not tending to a similar sta teof things in ili new york it is but a few days since valuable property pro perty peTty appropriated to the uses of the state on staten island was burned to the ground by the disaffected residents of the nei nel neighborhood none of the guilty parties have havo been leen iken arrested nor are they likely to be and the prospect now is that the state will be obliged to abandon its purchase in that quarter or devote it to some use more ac acceptable c ep e to 0 the neighborhood thair tharl the one concep contemplated ladd we have in this great city two orl conflicting oil boards of police commissioners and will soon have two separate corps of police officers owing allegiance to different chiefs chiefe and liable at a any ny moment to come into col coi collision dision un until t it the supremacy of one or the other ia is undisputed the power of both is comparatively paralyzed and we shudder when we think what might amigh t be the oon sequences consequences to our city cita now if anything at hing should happen like the macready riot of 1850 or the flour riots of 1836 which ahi thi cb should bun both bodie bodies into service bervice at the same time unfortunate abl aal althis this state of than things s sis is js it is made worse by the cooperation operation co boji of or a it of tile the bench iwho v ho under the t yui yul guise rui se 61 a judicial procedure do hot he hesitate mitat e to encourage this resistance to th the tha lawful authorities andr Andt just att ills lifs time when our city is under this and exposed at any moman momin mor moi rient t to a revolutionary crisis our criminal tribunals seem to be paralyzed the worst crimes go undetected and unpunished there seems to be no machinery any longer among us campe competent to bring criminal offenders to justice in adding to tb the numbers of our police we seem to have parted with all that skill tact ingenuity and experience which used to make the name of a new york police 0 officer such a terror to wrongdoers wrong doers what has become of the men who used to ferret out crime and unravel the mysterious mytte rious iniquities of our great city the race seems to be extinct A policeman hiow nowadays nowa a days daya is selected for his serviceability at the polls and for the fidelity with which he revolves in the orbit marked oe out ut for him by the officer ulio ho appoints him he has little education I 1 lebs less ess experience no ingenuity and no pride or ambition to dis tiri 1 aguish himself in his cal cai callins linz As s he owes his p place I ace to no person personal at qualifications so he feels that no qualification qualifications sTe he may acquire can keep it for him hloi he be therefore expects nothing from it but its salary while it lasts and whatever ingenuity he has is all very naturally expended ili il prolonging r his official career as much as as possible I 1 while our city government is thus enfeebled and disorganized when provisions of most kinds are sellin selling amen amon among us almost at abc famine prices I 1 and a I 1 large arge population of desperate characters c terssie re floating heating about amongst ua us ready to steal at a fire or rob in a riot prominent officers of the general government are holding public meetings in the park and recommending armed resistance to the tile laws of the state legislature apato and to the offic er whom it has clothed with its authority how long iong on can peace and anti order be preserve preserved a in a cit city Y like ilke this when nhen such things are tolerated II 11 how long iong before our city government and our courts will be the laughingstock laughing stock of the people as in baltimore in louisville and in san Fran francisco citco and our streets as theirs running with blood and illuminated by the torchon hof the incendiary incendiary N Y evening post |