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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Moral condition of New York. (search)
ers"-- "Broadway flanked for more than a mile, on either side, by streets whose very names are synonyms of debauchery," while it is notorious that the great thoroughfare has scarcely a block above Canal street which is not disgraced by an assignation house or a disreputable hotel." "More than half the population dwelling in crowded tenement houses, erected and arranged to hive from four to one hundred and twenty-five families of five persons each-- "an underground population," according to Dr Francis, of 25,000 persons — and with this enumeration, of which we have given a sketch, merely omitting much of the worst, the address defers the consideration of "gambling, lottery policies, desecration of the Sabbath, the reckless disregard of sanitary rules, the increasing riotous character of city politics, and the vagrancy, ignorance, and pauperism, so prevalent in our community." Surely, subject matter sufficient for another address, if not for a volume. We have read of an artist monk