Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-03


A Republican Meeting M Mobbed
and Broken UP-Six lsepubli-
cans BADLY Wounded.
u We give below what the Times says
of this affair:
81 THE EIGHTH WARD DISTURBANCE. =
The exact facts concerning the occur
renee at the meeting of the Irishmen in
the Eighth Ward, on Thursday evening,
are stated in another part Of this paper,
from which it will be seen that the at
tempt by the city Republican partisan
press to turn the affair to partisan ac
count is exceedingly discreditable. The
first material fact in the affair is, that
the meeting was not called as politiI
cal meeting, but as general meeting of
Irishmen, with reference, not to Ameri
can politics, but the cause of Irish lib
erty in Ireland. Irishmen of every shade
of politics were, therefore, rightly there.
Thenext material fact is, that Republi-
cans undertook to convert this meeting
into party meeting of their own. The
third material fact is, that the first Of
fence, which provoked the collision,
was given by the Incorporate speaker
put forward by the Republicans, and
repeated by Incorporate "Tanners" in
the assemblage. These are the material
initial facts. What followed was the elogic
of these facts. The responsibility for
the collision rests wholly upon those Re,
publican partisans who called general
meeting of Irishmen, and insulted the
Democratic portion of it by putting for
ward an obnoxious partisan speaker,
whose language was calculated to pro-
duce disturbance, and by introducing
uniformed and organized bands of "Tan-
ners," who began the disturbance. 1t is
to be regretted, certainly, that Demo-
cratic Irishmen should have been drawn
into collision; but this does not alter
the responsibility for it. This lies beav-
lily upon those men who undertook, by
fraud, to make Democratic Irishmen
participants in a Republican meeting, of
which the chief orator was an Irishman
who is held in detestation by ninety
nine one-h -hundredths Of our Irish citizens.
Democratic Irishmen did not go to the
meeting with any hostile intent. They
went there peacefully, in response to an
invitation to come; and it is not surpris-
ing that they were restless under gross
insult from partisan speaker, aggravat-
ed by the violence of organized and
uniformed roughs in the body of the as
semblage. 3syie-g- lJast! s1oyrzI
The affair, however, is altogether of
but little consequence, and the noise
that has been made about it shows how
greatly in, need is the Republican party
of Chicago of some extraneous aid in
the work of the campaign. Nobody
was much hurt. The report yesterday
afternoon that somebody was killed was
false. With those who believed the re.
port, "The wish was father to. the
thought. The whole business may be
summed up thus: Numerous Democratic
Irlshmen had come to meeting called
with reference to Irish liberty ir Ireland
they were met by an attempt to convert
this meeting into partizan Republican
meeting they were insulted from the
stand, and in the body of the hall; they
received the first blow; and then they
cleaned tie concern out. 3as a--sl 81air1s.
We need not justify violence in this
case, or in any other /; but this we car
say, that further forbearance by the as
sailed party at the Eighth Ward meet
ing would have been an uncommon vir.
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