The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-06-27

the market-house only on account of
shower of rain, How, then, was itpossi
bic that an attack upon them at that tim
and place, could have been planned deIib
eratcIyW
Equally unfair and imperfect is the &C
count which the Journal gives of the sec
ond meeting. 1t was not "a few day.
after" but the very next day. The meet
ing collected first inthc State House Yard
and III spite of the remonstrances of THEN
own discreet men, marched to the scene
OF the preceding days encounter. hearing
the flag, with an lnscri piion intended to OK.
aspcratc the people against the Catholics
"1hiS Is the fag whjch mGS hOddcn upoa
By the Irish PopistS" What did they cx-
hblt the flag for, but to excite the people!
What did they 90 to the battle-ground for
but to have another fight! There is much
more reason for charging Protcs,an,s than
Catholics with having deliberately plan
ned" the second attack. If the Catholics
had, ia the mean time, collected arms, and
looped-holed their houses, it only shows that
they did not mistake the intention Of their
adversarIes i'll make loophoe in my
house and load my gm for the purpose of
shooting arullan who, | have good reason
to believe, intends to burn it, and drive
my wife and children out of doors, | do
not deliberately plan an attack upon him,
My house cannot 90 to seek him. and if he
keeps away. he is in no danger. But if he
approaches in mcnaclng manner with a
hrebrand in his hand, and | shoot him,
my whole conduct, the Ioophole, loaded
gun an all, are but acts or means of SELF
defence, If the Natives had remained in
the State House Yard, or gone elsewhere,
the loopholed houses of the Catholics
would not have followed to hunt them up.
1t is paIpabo that the natives went there
for fight; that their movement was ode
llberalcIy planned;" and that they are
more responsible than the Catholics for
the murders winch cnsucd,
We have scarcely patience to read Tie
following extract from the Journals article
viz
"lIow utterly unconscious, then, of their
own personal interests, must those foreign
born citizens have been, who fired in Phil
adelphia upon dclibcralvc assembly how
unfit toparllcipate in the affairs Of free gov
eminent; and how dangerous the leaders a.
mong them, whose views and designs are so
at war with our free institutions, that they
would excite to such violence beforehand, |
and justify it afterwards,
GLOW incomparably better, or rather
less bad, was the conduct of the men and |
boys who composed the 'IaNless mob
Law'cs9 to great extent they werc;and yet
evident y under the control orlaws of which !
foreigners know nothing Life VS. sacred
even with them. Their vengeance was
all wrcakcd upon property, Here is the
difference between the two
parties. The one deliberately murdered
American citizens fer assembling to de-
beratc; the other rctalaled by burning
If the Romanists had triumphcG
n reslstIeSs mob, there is every reason
o believe that the streets of Philadelphia
would have been red with gore With the
mob as it was, human life was sacrcd--
such is the influence of Professionalism and
he Bible upon those who in the smallest
icgrcc, feel their influence. Such the cf-
cct OF RomanIsm upon those who are most
thoroughly ensayed with its spirit. How
I'LL Of blessings must the one system be,
nd how fall of Indebtedness the other,
when both have free scope"
"Fircd on a delibcralive assembly, {
Why, 1t is notorious that the "dcIlbcrativc 4
sscmbIy" commenced the violence, and I
robably the lireing. life was sacred
ven with them!' Sacred! when they {
sailed the Irish with every species of mis- (
lIc-beat, fired upon, dragged them from t
heir houses, and in some instances put {
hem 10 DEATH deliberately murdered ,
american ctizensw Why, there was t
othing deliberate on either side in the first i
fray, and the second arose from the de- |
beratc purpose of the Natives and their
HES, to have anoilerlightl Docs not the n
ournal SANDER the Professionalism aud the /,
'lbIe when it assumes that their influence d
My permits men to destroy property, and y
urn houses and churchesl A questions n
lc compliment to its own religion it is, to O
Omit that its influence permits men only Il
) rob, plumber, burn and Destroy i;
Full of blessings" must such system, in il
ccd, be-! d
But the Journal jnstiGcs the Natives in
J their murders, beatings, plunderings, n
nd burnings! 1t says: =,
From these scenes We turn with great |
'tisiaction TO contemplate the conduct Of if
Ic American Republicans. By them the y
-incplcs of American liberty were fully b
Understood, and honorahly illustrated - n
hey went to the ground in the first place 6
,nscious Of their rights, and unconscious. -
the murdcrous spirit which lowered n n
'und the place. When by violence they n
nd been driven from the ground, and the b
merican stars and strips trodden under "
ot, it was necessary that they should lit I,
lat ensign from the tramplng of alien b
ct, and maintain the great American t,
ght OF free discussion against alien hearts f
al b,uI 'II,,. ,,,,ii NOT 40 To-. ,i,., -