Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-12
THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE.

We are disposed to think that the
danger of riot to-day in New York city
and the adjoining towns has been csre-
fully nursed and deliberately exaggerated
for political effect. The unyielding De-
mocracy of our commercial metropolis is
8 great stumbling block to Rsdicalism,
and the motives for creating popular
alarm that might excuse the use of the
military is so obvious that we need
but mention it Democrats, therefore,
both North and South, are disposed to
take with many grains of allowance, the
Radical reports which burthen the tele-
graphic wires.
The fact that the threatened troubles
originated with the Hibernisns, strength.
ems this view. These Hibernisns seem
to be a class of Irishmen who are in ia
vor with Grant, and they sent down
delegation to Long Branch a few days
ago for the express purpose of invoking
the Federal military. In the light of this
fact the whole hiIlabello assumes the as
pect of Radical conspiracy against the
Irish Democracy of New York city, Id
on by Radical Irishmen of the Murphy
faction.
We are assured that these Hiber-
nisns, Notwithstanding the persist
ent use by the telegraph of the
epithet ''Romsn Catholic Society,"" is not
such in any sense except that the major
ity of Irishmen profess that faith. Its
basis Is The feeling of national kindred
and the desire of helping each other in
strange Land. 1t is not such a society as
the St Vincent De Paul and the St Jo-
seph's Societies, promoted and cherished
by the church. This isonly one evidence
of the effort on the part of the Radicals
to represent it as an exclusively religious
quarrel. 1t is true, religious feeling does
enter into If, ina=much as all Orsngemen
are non Catholic; but on the other hand,
many of the Irish patriots are non CathoH |
lie. The late William Smith 0'Brien,
the leader of 1S4S, was an Episcopslian.
The sturdiest advocate Of Irish nation
atty in the British Parliament todsy is a
Presbyterian, John Martin. A more cor
rect view of these Irish feuds-s view |
which we SOulherners are, unhappily, /
well able to apprecia,e-might be
given thus; TO the rest of their
countrymen, Otangemen signify English
carpet-bsggers who came over to rule
Ireland, and native skalawags who became
intensely loyal for the sake of office.
Both these classes have been misrepre-
senting the people for centuries, in order
to perpetuaie themselves in power by all |
the varieties of Ku-Klux rule. The fact |
that many skaiaTags were open to the /
suspicion Of abandoning the religion
of their fathers for the sake of
Office, and the fact that all Catholics
were ineligible to Office for centuries,
seems to be the religious element Of the
feud. 1t is as if our skalawags not only
became loyal. but also Joined the MethO-
dist Church North, to secure the favor of
Grant AMI his Prime Councillor Bishop
Simpson.
We are told that Superintendent Kel-
SOS veto on all Irish professions to-day
is generally regarded as cowardly sur
render to lswless ruffisng. We doubt
that the property holders or store-keepers
participate in this highly moral view.
Every law-abiding man of every degree is
likely to rejoice that the expected provo
cation of breach of the peace has been
nipped in the bud. Tie avowed persistent
opposition to the parade, on the part of
the Grand Master of Orangeism on the
Western Continent is well calculated to
blunt the edge of this charge of ga cow
ardly surrender