Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-15
The Press On the Mob.
[From the Times.l

The Romish Church has never sought to
impose greater tyranny upon any people
than that which our Roman Catholic rulers
have now imposed upon Us. For the first
time, the Irish mob has been officially in
formed that its word shall be law in this
city. The people who make up that mob
are not capable of drawing finedistinctiOns.
They could not understand, even if they
could read, the cumbrous reasoning of the
Mayor in General Order No. 81. What
they ee broadly and dist notly before them,
is that the city authorities are afraid of
them, and they will not be slow to turn
that knowledge to account means. -.
For time, it may be, we shall still be
permitted to celebrate the Fourth of July.
We may even be allowed to keep Thanks
giving Day as holiday: But we. are on
our good behavior. If the Irish Catholics
like to "put us down" the city authorities
will run away and leave them to carry out
their wishes. This is what the rule of
Tweed, Connolly and Hall.
This weeks work has at least done one
thing-ruined the Democratic schemes for
regaining possession of the national Gov
eminent. The people will never consent
to see the liberties of the whole country
handed over to the tender mercies of the
Irish Catholics. @1-- sr4 R4- ~ ~ 3
\ From the Tribune
A CHANGE OF 'FRONT.' The absence of
principle and the open shamelessness
which are the characteristics of our City
Government, for once serve q good pur-
pose. If we could now be astonished at
any act of the Directory which governs
us, the news of this morning would fill the
community with amazement. The kelsO
Circular is withdrawn, and the Governor
offers to use the entire power of the Stote
to preserve the peace in case it is threaten
ed by the riotous opponents of the Orange
men. This is a desperate though tardy
effort on the part of Gov. Hoffman to save
the Democratic party of the State, whose
position has now assumed q natlonaI I'M
portance, from the consequences of the
enormous blunder which sprang from the
ignorance and recklesSness of the City Hall
Directory.
The proclamation of the Governor was
the only way out of the untenable posi-
ton the Democratic organization of the
city had assumed. His action comes too
late to save the party from that popular
condemnation which always follows such
criminal plumbers. -,g ~ l'..,..s S 81
From the Herald
4 The surrender is the more unfortunate
for the Tammany Democracy, because it
settles nothing definately. The spirit of
concession has ere now ruined the Demo-
cratic party Concessions to the lawless
border ruffians in Kansas brought it into
disrepute, and tIally split it into the
Douglas and Breckenridge faction in 1850 !;
concession to the spirit of rank treason
cast upon it an ineffaceable 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 it's concession to the
mob spirit of the Hibernians to-day will
close the gates against it for four years
longer. $50, ,,-,,.-., -,r.y-f-r,,t7ff
From the Standard. - -
Of Mayor Halls order it says: llawoiii
But it is as political mistake that it
will attract most attention throughout the
country. The New York Democrats, act
ing at the behest of Tammany Hall, are
all looking to Gov. Hoffman as the Demo-
cratic nominee at the next Presidential
election. Mayor Hall and his catspaw, KEEL
So have killed Gov. Hoffman dead as a
doornail. Gov. Hoffman at the White
House, as the tool of Tammany, after late
events, would never for one moment, be
tolerated. What would the Presbyterians
of Pennsylvania, the Methodist Of the
Western States, the Baptists of the South,
and the extreme Puritans of the East say
to such an arrangement? From the Lakes
to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic would the cry burst fOrth-"Catholic
Government Such cry would stir the
nation as to one man, and would be the
deathknell of the Democratic chance.