Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-11-16
More About MOrrissey.


The Troy Wing, speaking of this
| Democratic star in the Congressional
galaxy says
His mother was a woman who, ma
ny a time and oft, graced the cells Of
the county jail for drunkenness, and
yet when she died John MOrrisey
marked her grave with a most costly
monument. The poor woman who
/ was frequently taken from the gutter
| and rarely had money enough to buy
/ a glass of liquor, sleeps her last sleep
! under a most magnificent mausOleum
/ that cost many thousands, and rivals
/ in its granduer the tombs of the rich
| est of the rich. We know very little
/ of Johns father. He could not have
/ been a man of any very marked char
| acteristics. And yet he goes dressed
| as well as the best, lives In a cOmtOrta-
I bic house presented to him by his son,
has plenty of money to supply all his
rational wants, and, so far as we know
/ behaves himself IN a most exemplary
manner.
Some of Johns special qualifications
for Democratic politician and Con
gresham of the first water may be ap-
preoiated by reference to an account of
his mill with Yankee Sullivan, recent
ly published in the New York Herald.
This horrible and inhuman perform
ance lasted ffty-fve minutes. Morri-
sey was terribly punished, his face all
battered to peices, and being weak en-
ed by exhaustion and loss of blood,
Sullivan struck him where be chose.
His blows were not so forcible as at first
but yet too much for human nature to
endure much longer, and although
Morrisey was bearing up manfully, it
was evident that he was failing rapidly.
His knees shook, his hands were low
and his mind bewildered.
Round 81 and Iast.-Sullivan came
to the scratch very fresh, and opened
at once on Morrissey's face, hitting
and getting away. Morrisey followed
him wildly, and at last succeeded in
throwing his arm around Sullivan's
neck, and getting his back against the
ropes, lifting Sullivan entirely clear of
the ground, Sullivan keeping his feet
drawn up meanwhile. The sec
onds of both parties now rushed to
their men, and shut out for a time the
view of what was going on. In a mo-
ment afterwards the seconds were
debating among themselves. Sullivan
was striking Gardner, and Wilson was
fighting with O'DonneI. Morrissey,
when next seen, was on his knees,
waiting for his seconds to lift him up.
The ring was then filed by outsiders,
before they were put out the referee
had decided that Morrissey had won
the fight. This unlocked for decision
took everybody by surprise; but the
fat had gone forth, and MOrrissey was
taken out of the ring. Sullivan re-
mained, calling Morrissey to continue
the battle The referee would not tell
when asked by SulliYan's second, why
he decided as he had done. Our re- /
porter saw him afterwards, and he
said it was because Sullivan was taken
out of the ring before he gave his de-
cisiOn. This, however Is a mistake.
Sullivan did not leave the ring for
some minutes after MOrrissey was
taken away.
Such is the man chosen by the Dem
oUrats of New York City to represent
them in the Fortieth Congress. It'll
is not surprising that the party which
has done its best to force traitors into
the National Legislature should shame
all decency by sending there a notori-
GUS prize-fghter, gambler and burglar.
There is nothing too low, reasonable
or iniquitious not to be eompassed by
the Copperhead Democracy of the
United States.