The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1858-01-30

the Pioneer, to the cruel nature of the treat
ment BONFANTI received from the police a,
ter his arrest, we are informed there is othe
evidence of respectable character establish
ing the outrageous and almost inhuman bru
tality to which this poor victim Of intoxca
ton was subjected to in their hands; ant
that he has suffered injuries in his persol
that may disable him for life-one statemen
alleging his wrist to be broken
Are such things to be tolerated, without
murmur, Or comment from the press -? w
would call for inquiry and investigation b.
the city Mayor but that functionary, lik'
Gov. MEDARY, has the happy knack of filling
his Office by being always absent from it
Nor do we think much would be gained
if the individuals who in this instance de
spised ''tcmpering justice with mercy were
even turned adrift for their conduct. Other
of the same race, neither better nor worse
would doubtless replace them and the pub
lie would not see abuses altered, but thei
names only changed.
The fault lies in the appointment of Celtic
Irishmen at all to places on the police IL
excavatc under proper direction those great
bitches called canals-to handle the spad.
and pckax and wheelbarrow in grading Oul
railroads, and similar intellectual employ
ments-in these lie tho peculiar forte Of the
race. Their education as a class fits then
for no more elevated pursuits, though there
is no avocation in life, in all the range O
politics, mechanism or science, which an
Irshman will not boldly pretend to be pro
ficient in, if you ask him-"Can you do it p
can sure, an can," is very apt to be his
self. sufficient answer.
But this race of people are particularly
unsuited to be police officers, of all other en-
ployments in this world. This is situation
demanding courage, moderation, intelligence
and great discretion. 1t requires knowledge
of human nature and the exercise of dis
elimination as to the best and easiest modes
of ruling men. But in a Celtic-Ir' shman
courage is very apt to run into brutality and
cruelty, like the bravery of the Sepoys in
India for whom the Irish hell meetings in
this country, to sympathise in their torturing
and numbering helpless women and children
simply because they were of Anglo-Saxon
blood! As to moderation, it is unknown
to the Celt ic. Irish whenever their passions
are aroused their intellie eance is mostly bu.
cunning and discretion is quality VIII; ch
none of their historians ever accused them of
possessing.
To these objections to their serving on the
police; is another which should also have
weight. So great is the ontipathy growing
up between them on the one hand, and Am
ericans, Germans, French, English, Scotch,
Sweeds, Norwegians and Scotch Irish, on the
other, that the disposition to resist them as
officers of the law, in the execution of its
mandates, is much greater than it would be
if the police was composed of men of any
other nationality. Many riots, in which
Irish police officers have been resisted by the
populace, undoubtedly owe their origin SOLE
ly to the existence of this altipathy to the
Irish in the breasts of all other classes of So
ciety. The truth of this nobody can for one
moment dispute.
Why then do not the people arouse them
selves, and combine together against the
election of any man to a municipal Office who
will appoint Celtic Irishmem to be officers in
the police? Even here in this Irish-ridden
city of St. Paul, it is possible to shake off
their yoke, if the people of all other nation
alities but awake to the Importance of the
crisis.
At the ensuing city election in May next,
we hear our Irish friends contemplate even
bolder grab for power than ever before
The distinguished VIM. B. M'Grorty is likely
to be their candidate for Mayor and when
he is elected, as he doubtless will try hard to
be, won't the sons of the green Isle walk
our Streets cocks of every walk within its
extensive limits
When that time arrives, revolvers, we are
afraid, will play a'more prominent part in our
municipal affairs, than our peaceful, order
loving, yet lazy voting citizens imagine or at
all desire!