Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1857 — Bloody Riots in New York. [ARTICLE]

Bloody Riots in New York.

The Banner of Liberty, in alluding to the bloody riots which have become prevalent in New York, since the Black Republicans revolutionized the police system, and are alarmingly on the increase, says : “The Black Republican legislature of New York, last Spring, passed an act revolutionizing the police system of Nejv 1 York and Brooklyn cities, and taking 5 the appointment of policemen from those ’ officers elected by the voters of those cit- ’ ies who have heretofore exercised the 1 appointing power, and conferring it upon 1 commissioners appointed by his highness Gov. King, temporarily in the Executive

chair of the State. This contempt for popular rights is only in accordance with our previous ideas of Black Republican oligarchists, who scruple not at even this stupendous outrage to avenge themselves on cities that last Fall gave overwhelming Democratic majorities. The pretext for taking the appointment of their own police from the people of those cities was a reformation and elevation of the character of the police. In reality it was the result of a fusion between the Black Republicans and Know Nothings for the purpose of appointing their own partisans to office, to the exclusion of “ Democrats and d d foreigners.” The law was at first resisted as unconstitutional, until a decision was at length obtained from the Court of Appeals, on Thursday last, affirming its constitutionality. In conformity with democratic usages and in contrast with Black Republican treason, the Democratic Mayor immediately disbanded the former police and delivered the city to the protection of the “Metroplitan” police, appointed by the creatures of the Black Republican legislature. As might be expected, when the old veteran police had been discharged for lilly-fingered ninnies of the Black Republican camp, rowdyism at once became triumphant, and laughed in its sleeves at the miserable shadows substituted for the old stars. Fighting and riots were about as com-

mon on the 4th as though there had been no police, and New York was the scene of more rioting’than ever before. In fights between rival factions of rowdies, who seemed to enjoy a complete carnival, about a dozen men and boys were killed in New York and two or three in Brooklyn, while several hundred’ others were maimed oi mortally wounded. The fighting was most furious at the notorious “ Five Points.” It was continued thro’ Sunday and Monday, in various parts of the doomed cities ; and what the result may yet be, itseems impossible to calculate. A fearful responsibility rests upon theheads of theßlack Republican usurpers for an outrage already thus prolific of murder and anarchy, and which has already transformed peaceful cities into perfect pandimoniums, where neither life nor property are safe. [Cr 3 We received last week, per Hack, a sack of new potatoes, accompanied by the following note — Mr. McCarthy— Dear Sir: I send you a mess of new potatoes, to eat with your Bear meat. F. B. Rishling. Just such an act of generosity as we might look for from an experienced Bear hunter. The potatoes were excellent, of good size, and the first of the season, and as we feasted upon them, we were forcibly reminded of the perilous adventure of friend Rishlingi in his fierce encounter with the monster, Bruin, at the dead hour of night. Our friend and fellow sportsman, however, showed himself a man of nerve. The species of Bear that frequent our prairies are not the common “Nisus Amer iconics," They are a rare species, more stealth in their nature, and are classified as the “ Nisus UmbrcUus.” In consideration of this daring exploit with the fierce animal, and a bountiful supply of new potatoes, we have presented the name of our esteemed friend to the Rensselaer Sporting Club with a view to his admission as ajmember, and have the apsurapce, that in due time he will be elected to full fellowship. JSTThe importation of Tea into the United States has deelined sixteen millions of pounds the past twelve months upon the amount received the previous year. LABORERS WANTED. The subscriber will pay liberal wages to laborer bjMtje month, to Work on a farm, if application is made soon. Five or six are wanted. SAMUEL FULLiftWIDER. Rentfselaer 15, 1857.

Col. Prince and his Colored Constituents. Col. Prince recently made some remarks in the Canadian parliament in reference to the character and condition of negroes in Canada, which, it appears, has given great offense to his colored constituents. They have called an indignation meeting and denounced him in the severest terms. , . We happen to know something about Col. Prince and the manner in which he has aided and encouraged these “ black vagabonds ” in their rascality. He was among the first to confer military honors upon them, and put arms into their hands to hunt down the whites, during the Canadian rebellion in 1838, and, we must confess, we are inclined to rejoice at the manner in which they are likely to recompense him for it. Some of these same negroes,

whom he now styles “ vagabonds ” were on the occasion already alluded to, honored by Col. Prince with the title of “ Queen Victoria’s Black Guards,” and truly a more worthless set of blackguards never served her majesty. We happened to be in the U. S. service about that time in the capacity of “ high private,” and was stationed on the American side of Detroit river, nearly opposite where her majesty’s black subjects did duty, and remember some of the amusing incidents which occurred among them. On one occasion, when one of these darkies was placed on guard during the night, he was approached by one of her majesty’s white subjects, whom he challenged after the following style : “ Who come dar ? ” “ Friend,” was the answer. “ You no say victory tree time, you no come dis way.”

Col. Prince, however, is not the only one in Canada that is becoming heartily disgusted with the negroes. The whole white population would contribute liberally of their means to get rid of them. They are quite as worthless as the Col. represents them to be, and we believe a good deal more so. The following is his letter of reply to their expression of indignation : “ To the Editor of the Colonist:— Your valuable paper of yesterday has afforded me a rich treat, and not a little futi, in the report of an indignation meeting of ‘ the colored citizens ’ of Toronto, held for the purpose of censuring. Perhaps I ought not to notice their proceedings —perhaps it would be more becoming in me to allow them to pass at once into the oblivion which awaits them ; but as it is the fashion in this country not unfrequently to assume that to be true which appears in print against an individual, unless he flatly denies the accusation, I shall, at least for once, condescend to notice these absurd proceedings. They deal in generalities, and so shall I. “Of the colored citizens of Toronto I know little or nothing; no doubt, some arc respectable enough in their way, and perform the inferior duties belonging to their station tolerably well, where they are kept in order—in their proper places—but their * proceedings are evidence of their natural conceit, their vanity, and their ignorance ; and, in them, the cloven foot appears, and evinces what they would do if they could. I believe that, in this city, as in some others of our province,, they are looked upon as necessary evils, and only submitted to because white servants are so scarce. But I now deal with these fellows as a body, and I pronounce them to be, as such, the greatest curse ever inflicted upon the two magnificent western counties whiqh I have the honor to represent in the Legislative Council of this province, and few men have had the experience of them that I have. “ Among vthe many qualities they possess, a systematic habit of lying is not the least prominent ; and the * colored citizens ’ aforesaid seem to partake of that quality in an eminent degree, because in their famous resolutions they roundly assert that during the rebellion ‘ I walked arm in arm with colored men,* that * I owe my election to the votes of colored men/ and that I have ‘ accumulated much earthly gains,’ as a lawyer, among • colored clients.* All lies ! lies! lies 1 from beginning to end. I admit that one company of blacks did belong to my contingent battalliou

but they made the very worst offeoldiers, and were, comparatively speaking, unsusceptible ot drill or discipline, and were conspicuous for one act only—a stuptd sentry shot the son of one of our oldest colonels, under a mistaken notion that he was thereby doing his duty. But I certainly never did myself the honor of - walking arm in arm * with any of the colored gentlemen of that distinguished corps: Then as to my election. Few, very few blacks voted for me. I never canvassed them, and hence, 1 suppose, they supported, as a body, my opponent They took compassion upon *a monument of injured innocence,’ and they sustained the monument for a while upon the pedestal their influence erected. But the monument fell, and the fall proved that such influence was merely ephemeral, and it sank into insignificant nothingness, as it should, and I hope ever will do ; dr God help this noble land. Poor blackies I Be not so bold, or so conceited, or so insolent, hereafter, I beseech you. “ Then how rich I have become among mv ‘colored’ clients! I assert, without the fear of contradiction, that I have been the friend of our western ‘ darkies , for more than twenty years ; and amidst difficulties and troubles innumerable, (for they are a litigous race,) 1 have been their adviser, and I never made twenty pounds out of them in that long period. The fact is that the poor creatures had never the ability to pay a lawyer’s fee. “ It has been my misfortune and the misfortune of my family to live among those blacks, (and they have lived upon us,) for twenty-four years. I have employed hundreds of them, and with the exception of one, named Richard Hunter, not one has | ever done for us a week’s honest la- ■ bor. 1 have taken them into my service, have fed and clothed them year after year on their arrival from the States, and in return have generally found them rogues and thieves, and a graceless, worthless, thriftless, lying set of vagabonds. This is my very plain and very simple description of the darkies as a body, and it would be indorsed by all the western white men, with very few exceptions.

“I have had scores of George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, James Madisons, as well as Dinahs, Gleniras, and Lavinias, in my ser vice, and 1 understand them thoroughly, and I include the whole batch (old Richard Hunter excepted) in the category above described.To conclude, you ‘ gentlemen of color,’ east and west, and especially you, ‘ colored citizens of Toronto,’ I thank you for having given me an opportunity to publish my opinion of your race. Call an other indignation meeting, and there make greater fools of yourselves than you did at the last, and then ‘to supper with what appetites you may.” Believe me to remain, Mr. Editor, yours very respectfully. John Prince. ' “ Toronto, June 26, 1857. “P. S. I think it proper to allude to the case of Messrs. Wilkinson and Woodbridge, of whom the darkies’ resolutions make iflention, and who were so improperly and so unjustly dismissed from the commission of the peace. Those two magistrates did their duty —they acted upon a statute which has never been repealed, and they were dismissed for not having acted upon a statute which did not touch the offense charged—horse stealing ! However, there is some consolation in reflecting that the black rascal whom they caused to be arrested was tried and convicted of the crime charged, and ’will luxuriate for six years yet to come in the State prison of Ohio. It is believed (and I believe it too) that the * monument ’ had much to do in influencing the executive against those worthy magistrates. “ J. P.” Col. Prince has livetj for a great length of time in a community composed to a large extent of free negroes, and is therefore fully competent to give a correct statement in respect to that class of populatien. That bis assertions in this regard, contained iu the letter above given, are strictly true, will be vouched for by thousands of our citizens who have |had opportunities to inspect the workings of negroism in Canada. All experience demonstrates that the African is a vastly inferior race, mentally and morallyj that placing negroes upon a political equality with whites is an act of supreme folly.; atd that a large free negro population is a curse to any white community.—Detroit Free Press. y-T Bills on the Tecunjieh Bank are regarded as very unsafe—better hoi touch ’em. jKTJudge James Borden, of Fort Wayne has been appointed Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands.