The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-07-27
For Governor
CHARLES ?. KIM BALL
Whose OK is Gored?
OF PORTLAND

The Bangor Wing is TO the New York
Tribune what Boswell was to Dr. John
son-the lacquey and toady, no more to
be driven from the worship of its idol
than was The obsequous Scotchnan If
the Tribune takes snuff, the Wing straight
way prepares to sneeze. 1t is reported
that the individual who furnishes the
loaded matter of the Wing has standing
orders to take no course and express no
opinion that has not been endorsed by
the Tribune, and we must say that great
er fidelity has seldom fallen under our
observation The Chinese tailor who
followed the pattern SO closely as to pat
a patch upon the seat Of q pair OF new
pantaloons. WIS not more scrupuiouslv
exact
The Wing, having studiously peiused
its great exemplar from New y ork, con-
cludes that it is safe to attack any paper
that does not fiercely denounce the Irish
people of New York, and so arraions
this paper after the ideas advanced by the
Tribune But the Wing. unfortunately
for the strength of its position, does not
give the same careful consideration to
the papers of New York city, who scorrh-
inglv review the 1ribnne's position and
expose its malignant inconsistency The
World shows that there have been other
riots in New York, and calls up the great
Macready-Forr riot, in 1919.
Mr. Macready was an English actor
and the rival of Edwin Forrest, the Amer
lean actor Forests jealousy was arous-
ed by the success of the Englishman
and his admirers and partisans resolved TO
drive Macready from the stage of the
metropolis, where he was following his
peaceful and legitimate occupation. his
sole offence being the merit of his talent
The World very pertinently says. He
would be very bold OF very silly man
who should undertake TO maintain that
the fright of a given company Of per
sons to use the public thoroughfare for Il
parade of their own is at all to be com
pared with the right of given company
have hired to play for them in a theatre
which they have hired to hear him IN
Mr.. Macready commenced to play his
farewell engagement at the Astor Place
Opera House on Monday evening, May
Z, 1919, in the character of Macbeth, but
such was the disturbance made by For
rests partisans that the curtain had to be
rung down and the performance stopped.
Mr.. Macready then proposed to resign
his engagement, but upon many promi-
nent citizens signing and publishing q
card requesting him to go on and prom
ising him protection, he concluded to fin
ish it. His temperance was announc-
ed the following Thursday evening. He
succeeded in getting through with the
Observation-Disclosures upon the conclusion
FORESTS friends outside began riot
which was quelled by the miltary-22
persons killed and sc wounded. Then
the Tribune Herald, &C., reyiled Mayor
Woodruff because he had not done pre-
cisely what Mayor Hall proposed to do
in advance of the rot of Wednesday
We quote the Worlds showing of these
prints:
Mr.. Greeley, in the Tribune, spoke of acting
as miserable VOCATION and was indignant at
the idea that blood should be shed to protect
an actor in pursuing it. He thought 'the in
PREVENTION of the military with ball-cartrdges
uncalled for The Herald put all the blame
of the riot, not upon the rioters, but upon Mr.,
Macready and his friends, and upon the city
government for failing to suppress them ''The
card of the friends of Mr.. Macready," it said,
inviting him to re-appear, and assuring him
that he would be sustained, was considered by
the friends of Mr.. Forrest in the light OF
challenge-as an invitation to trial of strength
between the friends of Mr.. Forrest and these
gentlemen and their friends. The eff
feet of this card, and of Mr. Macready's con
sent to reappear was to put the city authori-
lies in direct opposition to the friends of Mr.
Forrest, at the dictation of a few individuals
in the maintenance of an abstract principle
This was the great and fatal error
What was ''great and fatal error in 1919
becomes Il high and holy duty in 1871 The
more bitter. A respectable New England
iournal-the Newbnryport Herald-chargedt the
city government with bad Judgment in main
tanning Mr.. Macready's right to be heard. A
Philadelphia paper exclaimed, "Who melted
the riot? To our minds, most conclllsively,
those who addressed IA card to Mr.. Macready
asking him 10 appear again. What is the use
OF police if not preventive? In our city when
riots have been anticipated Mayor Swift pre-
vented them by removing the cause of provo
fyrI,t1
calculated to nfame the public mind. Every
man' continues the journalist, ''who invited
repetition Of Macready's appearance, from
Washington Irving down to the meanest scrub
of the signers, should be indicted for melting
riot"
This was in 1919, and in denunciaton of the
indubitable right of every man to hear in his
own theatres, subject only the limitation of
decency, the plays and players which he may
prefer. In 1871 the men who incte an outra-
geous and inf1ammatory procession to carry
sparks through finder in the heart of a great
city are iauded as defenders of liberty!
The result was that Mr. Macready was
compelled to abandon the practice Of his
profession here and return to England.
1t will thus be seen how beautifully this
class OF gentlemen can play precisely OPP
posite tunes on the same harp of a thou
sand strings.
-EARTHQUAKE. The shock of an earth
quake was felt about one o'clock, on
Thursday morning last, over large part
of New England. The jar was accom-
panied by rumbling sound, like the
passing of heavy team. The Boston
Posts report has the following
gentleman who arrived from Belfast on
the steamer Cambridge speaks of the shock on
the ocean as being very perceptible. The feel
ing was as if the boat had struck rock and
the alarm was considerable among those who
felt it.