The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-08-10
From the Toledo Blade.

| FROM the .Ioledo BLADE.
| CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
| which is in the State of Kentucky,
July Is, 1871.
| The riots in Moo York affected me ter
| ribly. Viewed from any standpoint, the
occurrence was implorable. Two hun
dred Dlmcctats shot down by the brootal
military. who will never rally to the polls
aein ant will never agin repeat their
votes. no matter how high the price.
And all this becoz them undetermined
sons Nv Erin insisted on the right to die
tate who shood and who shood not par
ade the streets of their city Nv Moo York.
[ hev, however. the consolashen Nv
KNOWN that it wont make any difference
In our majority. In that city. There is
ships on sea briDgin more Irishmen who
kin be made voters in four hours after
they land, and eff no more comes, them
ez is here kin vote oftener 1t may be
necessary to furnish some Nv EN- bosses
and buggies that they may get around
the polls faster. but that will be ALL
he'd my little trouble on the same
day. 1t so happened that the children
of our church he'd piched upon the 10Th
Nv July ez the day Nv their pic-nick, and
it so happened that Pullock havin' lot
Nv damaged yellar calico, Deekin PennI-
hacker bought it to make rosetts for the
children, and sash for myself, who wuz
to cheef marshel EN-. The mite afore we
received a letter from Dennis O'Shoug-
messy, Patrick O'Brien and Shamur O.
DAILY. the three Irishmen who live at the
Corners Station, that they understood
1t was the lntenshun NV the Protestants
of the Corners, to celebrate the battle NV
the Boyne with an Orange procession
They gave notice. that it he'd better be
abandoned, for they wood not hev their
feelins injured. After the warnin', eff
blood should be shed they could not be
held responsible.
No one in the Corners-that is the
ma tives he'd ever heered NV the battle Nv
the Boyne or knowd what Orange"
meant, and so. takin it as joke, no at
tenshun wuz paid to it, for DO perceshun
he'd ever been mobbed at the Corners,
but niger percesshuns. But next NOR
min, when the percesshun moved, a vol
ley Nv stones greeted us, [ wuz ridin
proudly at its head, on Roscom's mule
and one we'll directed rock hurled me
senseless to the ground, and as the shep-
herd wuz smitten, the sheep was scatter
ed. Dennis 0 Shoughnessy told US that
the feelings Nv the Catholic citizens NV
the Corners should not be outraged so
long as he he'd strength to handle a club
or heave stun. Some Nv our people
wuz indignant, but [, the cheef sufferer
wuz not. [ he'd lived in Moo York, which
is mostly Irish, and KNOWN their idious-
syncraeies, wuz willing to forgive EN-. There
amt no better Dimocrats anywhere than
these men, and no rock kin be throwed
which kin make me do anything agir.
that organizashun, Nv which these men
is the back bone.
And when L got paper and read NY
the riots in Moo York. lite beamed on
to me. Ez the Irlshmen don't like the
orange color, On the 18th of July, won
der that the three we hey commended
themselves wit heavin rocks at us. It's
not to be expected that they will allow
any demonstration which hurts their fee
lings to be made without sn at.empt to
suppress it. The ardent son of Erin is
an impulsive preacher who delites in bav-
in his csn way. They hev taken charge
NV the government of the city of New
York, and they ought not to be interfered
with, nor should they be.
see but one way to prevent such diff
fculties hereafter, and that plan [ sub
NIT 30 the consideration of the American