The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-12
The TRmmany surrender-lts Effect Upon
the More Rural Democracy.

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the More Rural Democracy.
| What effect Superintendent Kelso's order,
No. 81, forbidding the Orange parade right
have had upon our democratic cousins in the
country yet remains to be seen. We cannot
definitely determine how far Tammany is up
held or condemned by the rural democrats
who live far away from the influence of the
foreign vote and are undismayed in their
| mountain strongholds by the threats of city
mobs, until our newspaper exchanges begin to
come in. II seems more than probable that
great cutlery of scorn and contempt will be
hurled upon the representatives Of our city
government, even from the newspapers most
friendly to the party. The New York Tam
many branch of the democratic party has
never won the actual affection of the de-
mocracy of the interior. 1t has been
considered the parvenue of the party
by the old first-family arstocracy of the
South and the Hancock-Adams family
nabobs of the East and it has been looked
upon rs selfish, city bred, bondholding Off
shoot by the broad-shouldered, big-idead
partisans OF the West. Withal, however, it
holds the money, understands the diplomacy
and manages the voters, and so the democracy
all over the country bend to Tammany. But
they bear no willing or meek yoke, and the
Orange surrender will be quite sure to call
forth fierce attempt at the bursting of bonds.
We must await our country exchanges before
we can definitely ascertain the full extent of
this democratic uphe wal
The surrender is the more unfortunate for
the Tammany democracy, because it settles
nothing definitely. The same question of an
Orange parade must come up again next year
and the year after and every year, and will
have to be met again, and each succeeding
year the question will become more important
and pressing until this surrender of right to
the threats of the mob will not be acceptable
as settlement of it. The spirit of concession
has ere now ruined the democratic party.
Concessions to the lawless border ruffians
in Kansas brought it into disrepute,
and eventually split it into the Douglas
and Breckinridy e factions in 1860; concession
to the spirit of rank treason cast upon it an
neffaceable blot in 1861; concessions to the
fighting mobs of the Southern Confederacy
marked its career through the war and shut
the gates of the White House against it for
eight years, and it may prove that its conces-
sion to the mob spirit of the Hibernians to-
day will close the gates against it for four
years longer. Such weak, tampering conces-
sions never secure lasting peace. Like
bloody instructions, they return to plague
their inventor. Like renewed note,
they come back ct future day
with heavier sum total and more clamorous
for settlement. A strong hand, determined
will, an undaunted nerve on the part of Tam
many at the present crisis would have secured
not only the peace of the city to-day more GER
tainly than the surrender secured it, but
would have secured to Tammany itself the
warmer admiration of its friends and the
stronger respect of its enemies, and probably
that goal of all its hopes-success in 1872.