Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-08-11

The right to parale-Nr. Nasiy suqgos's
an arrongeunf5vrli.l ,.of, mag heeanair
aroided
Confederit = Roads, Cwieh is in the State
uy Kentucky, July Is, l~7l-The riots in
Moo ork affected me terribly. Viewed from
any standpint, the occurrence wuz Gcploia-
bic. Two hundred dimOcrats shot down by
the brootal military who viii never rally t.
the polls agin, and VIII never agn repeat
their votes. no matter how high the price.
Ana all this bccoz them noble minded sons
nv Erin insistid on the rite to dictate vino
shood and who shood not parade the streets
Nv their city wv Moo York hev, however.
the consolashen NV knowing that it won't
make any difference in our majority in that
city There is ships on the sea bringin
more lrishmen, who kin he made voters in
four hours after they land, and ef no more
comes them ez Is here kin vote 0iteuer. Il
may be necessary TO furnish sum NV en- hos
ses and buggies that they may get around to
the polls faster, but that will be ALL
he'd my little trouble on the same day.
Il SO happened that the children Of our
church he'd pitched upon the l2th NV July C.
the day for their picnic. and it Sd happened
that Pollock heyin lot NV damaged waller
calico, Deekn Pennibacker bought it to
make resets for the children and a sash for
myself, who wuz 10 cheef marshal cm. Tie
mite ature we received letter from Denis
O'Shoughnessy, Patrick O'Brien and Sha-
mus o DAILY, the three lrishmen who live At
the Corners station, that they understood it
wuz the intenshun NV the Protcstants Wv the
Corners to celebrate the battle nv the Boync
with an Orange procession. They gave notice
that it had better be abandoned. for they
wood not hev their feelings injured. After
the warnin ef blood shool be shed they could
not be held responsible.
No one in the Corners shat is the natives
had ever heercd Nv the battle Nv the
B0yne, OF kn0wd wOt Orange mcnt, and
so. takin it as a Joke, no attcnshun wuz paid
to it, for no perceshun had ever been mob
bed at the Corners but niger perccsshuns.
but next m9rnin when the peroesshun moved
a yolley Nv stones greeted us. wuz riding
proudly at Its head on Basc1m's mule, and
one well directed rock hurled me sonseless to
| the ground, and ez the shepherd wuz smi--
| ten the sheep wuz scattered. Denis o.
/ ShOughncssy told Us that the fceins NV The
] Catholic citizens NV the Corners sho0d never
be outraged so long G. he he'd strength to
| handle q clnb OF hcavc q stun. Some NV the
| people WIZ indignant, but /, the chief suffer
er, wuz not. he'd lived in Moo York, wch
| is mostly irish, and KNOWN their idiosyncra-
/ cies, WIZ willin to forgiy en-. Their amt no
better Dimocrats anywhere than these men,
/ and TO rock kin be thr5wcd wich kin max
Inc do anythin agin that organinshcE uv
! Nich these men is the backbone.
And when got a paper and read uy the
I riots in Moo ork lite beamed onto me.
/ Ez the Catholic lrishmen don't ike the
orange color on the l2th Nv July, ! wonder
that the three We hey c0ntentcd themselves
with merely hcayin rocks at us. It Is not O.
be expected that they Will allow any demon
strashcn wich hurts their feelins to De made
without an attempt To suppress it, The
ardent son Nv Erin is an impulsive crccher
who dcites in heyin bis cwn way They
hev taken charge NV the government uv the
city nv Moo York and they ought not to be
interlcred with, nor will they be.
see but one way to prevent such Difficult
ties hereafter, and that plan | submit to the
consderashun nv the American people, e.
follows:
Let an ordinance be passed by the common
council NV Moo York, providing for the ap-
pontmcnt Nv a committee who shel hev con-
troll NV professions and all public displays,
SAID committee 10 consist NV ten Catholic
priests ay Irish birth. and ten Catholic lay
men NV Irish birth. To this committee all
these matters shell be referred They shcl
| hey the power to say wat societies shell, and
wat societies shei not parade, and als) wat
banners, colors and insignia shel be display
ed, wat toons shel be played, and on wat
days sich display shel be made
Uv course this committee would be LIBERIA
be. They would never object to the eele-
brashen Of the Fourth Of July ('or that com
memoratcs n triumph over British tyranny
particularly el the procession wood pledge
themselves to carry the green flag and Lev
ther bands play national airs, only.
The followin, | suppose, would Le the
tenor uv most NV the answers 70 applicashens
for the privilege Nv paradin;
To The superintendent az The -M IL Sirca
Methodist Sunday Sk0oi. Permission refused.
On the route proposed for the procession
lives three hundred Catholic families witch
wood be offended at it. The committee does
not want to be bothered with sich applica-
tons ez none nv en- will be granted.
his
Signed Patrick = McGee,
mark
Chairman.
This wood save riot and blO0ished. fur
ug course the procession couldn't take place,
and the Irish people couldn't be offended,
onless it wuz at the presumption nv the
Methodists in maxim the request. Then
agin
To the Committee on Percessioa ur Lodge
nu13Jer-EnqifS "a PEhias The com
mittee hcvin carefully examined the ritual
nv sed order, and fndin therein nothn Often
siye to the Irish citizens NV the United States,
and nothing partikerly offensive to the Holy
Catholic church, the said order Is hereby
permitted to pcrade July II, ISL 1t is
suggested that the parade Is not intended ez
an insult to en-, that the green flag of Erin
be displayed above the banner Nv the order,
that the members NV the order wear green
sashes, that an lrishman be employed to act
e. marshal, and that the band be instructed
to play nothing bat ." The Wearin nv the
Green
his
Signed PATsEY,S MCSHANE,
mark
Chairman pro TEN.
There mite be cases where the same socie-
ty mite receive the following notice the mite
afo-e the intended parade
To the President Of LOdgc niuaJer--,
Kniies uu Pyfhias 1t havin come to the
knowledge NV this committee that the Ancient
Order NV Hibernians and also the Young
Mems Society NV the Church NV the lm-
maculate Concepshun, intend to parade to-
morrow, and ez both NV these professions will
cross the streets named ez your route, the
order permitten you to parade is hereby re-
voked. The committee will give you notice
NV the first day on wich no body NV Catholics
or Irish citizens desire yu TO yoose the streets
that yoor demonstration may take place
peacably.
In addishun to this, it might be well to
make S.. Patriek's day legal holiday, the
same ez the Fourth Nv July, and that our
Irish fellow citizens mite not be annoyed.
sich days ez the church holds servis on mite