The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-26
E5om the Irtsh People tor 81. q.

which every true and honest man, Ger
man, Irish, or American is bound to re.
spect. On every occasion when he
could safely exercise 1t, Mr.. Hoffman
used his power and inhuence-in oppo-
sition 10 the welfare of our people and
to that cause of Freedom and Indpen-
dence for our native land, which every
true Irishman keeps sacredly alive in
his heart. He has never made a speech
that we can remember in which some
passage did not occur calculated to de.
grade our character as race and bring
| the blush of shame and indignation 10
our cheek. The highest need of praise
he has ever been known TO accord our
people was that we have proved our
selves exceedingly useful in this coun-
try In building houses, and draining
swamps and cutting down forests; that,
indeed, we are capital "railroaders"
and Hcanallers," and that we were
never intended by God and nature TO
be anything else; and these high com.
pliments TO our physical endurance
and strength were always accompanied
! by earnest suggestions that the Ameri-
can people should endeavor 10 keep us
more steadily in our proper place, as
| hewerS of wood and drawers of water,
than they do now. For a humorous
amplificRtion Of these sentiments, we
refer the. reader to Mayor Hofman's
speech, delivered at the lasts annual
dinner of the New England Society.
But that gentleman does not stop at
making speeches to insult and degrade
US. He Is far too practical for that.
Our readers can only too vividly re-
member that in March, 1867, the whole
American population were electrified
by the news that flashed along the ca
| BILE to this country, to the effect that the
Fenians were on the hills in Ireland,
fighting against the British army for
the independence of their native land.
We did not then know, as we learned
afterwards, that the struggle was vain
and hopeless one; all we knew was
that that struggle was going on, and
that the brave end gallant Fenian pa
triots wanted all the help we could get
for them by any and every means. A
mass meeting was called in Union
Square, under the auspices of the Fe-
man Brotherhood of New York, for the
purpose of asking the American people
TO extend their aid and sympathy to
struggling Ireland and Mayor Hoffman
was sinvited-nay, earnestly requested
to preside at that meeting. Mr.. Mayor
Hoffman, however, did not preside
there, nor did he put in an appearance
ut the meeting at all. But he conde-
scended to write letter or TO order one
to be written for him, which, after the
usual cheap "palaver" of wishing us all
sorts of good luck, &c, he wound up
by firmly informing us that he could
not sanction, by his official presence as
Mayor of New York, the proceeding OF
any congregation of persons whose
special object was the leYying of war
against any foreign Government with
which the United States were at peace,
&C., tEc., &c. This letter was accom-
panied by crowd of Mr.. Hofman's
henchmen at the City Hall, whose busi-
ness it was to talk into" the meeting
justification aud approval of their
masters conduct; and, to do their
lobbying powers justice, they succeeded
in making many innocent persons be-
lleye that Mr.. Hohman's course was
either the only ope he could pursue,
having consideration for his personal
safety, or it was the course best calcu-
lated to serve the object for which the
meeting had assembled.
Bot those VINO were thus easily sat
lsfied with the explanations of the
Mayors parasites were destined 10 have
their eyes rudely opened very soon
afterwards. Thirteen days after that
Fenian meeting had taken place in
Union square, public meeting was
called, by curtain fashionable philan-
tEropisls, to assemble in the hall of
the Cooper Institute, and the object of
this meeting was as like that of the
Union square gathering "as two peas".
1t was to solicit the aid and sympathy
of the American people for the patriots
OF Canada who were then struggling
against the Moslem army for the free
dom and independence of their native
land. To this meeting, alec, Mayor
Hoffman was invited. What did he do2
Write a letter to say that the Govern
ment of the Sublime Porte and the
United States were at peace, that this
Cret0n meeting meant to levy war
against the Sultan, and that he could
not sanction the proceedings of such
gathering with his official presence as
Mayor OF the great commercial capi-
tai of the country? Not at all-far
from It. He had much more
respect for those who sympalhized
with the struggling Cretans
than he did for the ignorance of the
poor but patriotic Irishmen of New
York, who, as Hoffman and his
class believe, can be insulted and ca
joled at their pleasure. As If to defy
the common sense of the Irishmen of
New York, Mr.. John T. Hoffman at
tended that Cretan meeting, presided
there, and entered his own name for
heavy subscription in aid of the Greek
Fenians of Gambia. Let every Irish
man in the State Of New York lay this
little episode beside his heart and then
vote for John T. Hoffman-if he can.
But why multiply instances? From
the time when he, as Recorder, tried 10
fasten the odium of ths- July riots of
1868 on the 1rishmen of New York, by
Wishing Win the hlRhest penalty OF
the law every poor dEPe Of his olVn par
ty'S UfLLdiny who bore an Irish name,
while he LETT OF with caution, or dis
charged as blameless, the ringleaders,
who were the hired agents of his friends
in the Confederacy and Great Britain
from that time until a few weeks
ago, when hewas charged with the duty
of sending delegation from New York
to urge on Congress the necessity OF
having law passed for. the protection
of our citizens abroad, and when he
took good care that no such delegation
ever presented themselves in Washing
ton, this man has never missed an OPP
portunity, we say again and again, Of
injuring ndiiusulting the Irish people
of America: Therefore, ii God spares
us Hfe and strength to do 1t, We shall
| go to the polls for the first time in our
life next November, and deposit our
protest against the election of Hoffman
In the shape Of g ballot bearing the
name of his opponent, the Hon. John
/ A. GFisWold
With respect to the latter gentleman
We know very little of him; but thai
little commends him strongly 20 oul
i favor. In the listsof black and white
sheep We kept during the passagI
through the House and the Senate o
the bill for the protection of our cit
| Zens abroad. we find that the name o