Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-27
More about the late Riots I'm New
York City.

at Mayor Hall, at Police Superintend
ent KelsO, at the ring, even at Govern
or Hoffman himself, whom they ac-
cused of acting in concert with the
ring, until he saw the evil consequences
Of the course.
Mr.. II. II. Watson, one of the best
known members of the Stock Ex-
chance, said "Politics are at the bot
tom of the whole matter. / don't give
Hoffman any credit for issuing his
proclamation he had made a mistake,
and took water. Well, if it does in
jure the ring, don't care"
Scarcely had Mr. Watson said this,
when the reporter heard Mr. John Ben
jamin, another of the oldest members,
say to a crowd that stood around him,
"This is the lamest thing 1 ever saw
of Hoffman's. It's all humbug ofhim
to pretend not to have known of any,
thing before
Mr.. Wheelock, the Vice President of
the Stock Exchange, said: II think
the Orangemen would have paraded
any how, even if Kelso's order had
not been revoked. Every citizen of
New York would have protected them
Why, / should have shou!dered a mus
ket, and 1 know other members would.
It's an outrage on the community, and
/ should not have wondered if it had
come to a vigilance committee, had not
the Governor interfered. 1t would
have been time to takethe law into our
own hands. Kelso isn't to blame. He
was ordered by the Mayor, and 1 sup
pose he did as he was-Ordered TO do
The Tammany ring is at the bottom
Of this infamy. You know they are
dependent on the Irish vote"
Not only on the Stock Exchange,
but all over Wall, and Broad streets,
intense Indignation was expressed.
Mr.. Rufus Hatch, the national bank
er told reporter of the Sun, in &C
cents of great excitement: 81 am, a
Democrat, but say if this city is to
be given over to set of drunken,
Irish rioters, it's about time to stop
it.. Why, it's just as if this set ofIIisb
roughs ran the country. 1t beats the
worst religious outrage of the Com
mune."
Mr.. jaw Cooke said Il have just
come from Philadelphia. Every one
there thinks this Orange affair in New
York is an outrage on the whole coun-
try. 1 tellyonff sucli things can oc-
cur, you can't call thesU United States q
free country any moro. If the Catho
lies overstep their rights they will have
trouble. think Archbishop McClos.
ky'saddress was very intemperate A
priest should talk more mildly, that's
my opinion of the matter"
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banking house of Duncan, Sherman
E Co., said s'ENery one has a right
tozparade here. Why shouldn't the
Orangemen have it as well as the Ger
mans and the Irish. The city author
tiles act without judgment. The Gov.
ernor, / think, wanted to do richt. l
telegraphed to him yesterday morning
/ don't know who is responsible for
the mischief, but whoever is, is respon
sible for a very, bad thing"
This was what every one of the SOL
id business men thought. Every one
was indignant. Every one blamed the
Mayor and the city authorities.
This is what MIR. Clerke, the Presi-
dent of the Stock Exchange, said
s.'The Mayor is the cause of all the
trouble. He has no principle, and will
do anything to gee power. am q
Democrat, but l cannot vote any more
with party that will do things like
this. 1t will destroy all the charms of
our Government, our liberty, and it
looks like precursor of civil war. l
am disgusted with the whole thing"
The Indignation meeting at the Pro
duce Exchange was a rousing one. W.
p. Bensel presided, and Mr.. Charles
Strachan acted as Secretary. The fol
lowing resolutions were adopted with
great enthusiasm:
"Whereas, the extraordinary course
of our Mayor and Superintendent of
Police, in prohibiting the exercise OF
rights and privileges, on the part.sof q
portion Of our foreign-born citizens al
the dictation of another class, has in
duced us, members of the New Y oriz
Produce Exchange, to turn aside from
our usual vocation, and give express
sion to our Indignation in the prompt
est manner
Whereas, this utter violation, of the
rights of the people has not only been
submitted to by the authorities without
objection, but such parades indorsed
by them in their official capacity by
their accepting invitations to revie "
such parades.
Whereas, an association known as
the Orange Association announced an
intention of holding their annual pa
rade, and sought the protection of the
police from a threatened attack by an
association of Hibernians and,
Whereas, such protection was not
cnly denied them, but an Infamous and
illegal order, signed by the Superin-
tendcnt of Police, at the instigation OF
Oakley Hall, Mayor of the City oi
New York, prohibited such parade
therefore,
Resolved, that we, as American citi
zens, claiming equal laws for all, dc
enter our solemn protest against such
order
Resolved, that we enter our protest
against the arbitrary assumption o.
power on the part of the said Mayor
and the Superintendent of Police, ir
discriminating between the rights O.
one religious and political organiza
ton to the prejudice of the one or the
other.
Resolved, that we utterly repudlat,
the sophistry and superficial pleading
published in said order for its justifi
cation, as unworthy the source from
whence it emanated, and as in direc
opposition to the great American doc
trine of liberty for all
Resolved, that we care nothing fo
the political or religious prejudice tha