Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-19
WHAT PROVOKED GOV. HOFFMANS'
PROCLAMATION.
An Indignant Public Force Him 10 Protect
the Orangemen.
Democracy in League with an Irish Catholic
Mob.


Mob.
Mayor Halls letter to Grand Master
Bond of the Orangemen advising him not
to have their procession, was written on
the 9Th instant. Superintendent Kelso's
order .forJidding it was issued on the 10th
instant. These two documents provoked
such a storm of public Indignation that on
the morning of the 18th, Gov. Hoffman
was forced to issue his proclamation prom
ising them protection.
The public sentiment that brought about
this tardy action of the Governor may be
seen from the following:
From the Evening Post.l
NEW YORK DIsGRACED.-The city
authorities have surrendered to the threats
of a awdefying mob. Superintendent
Kelso, after long consultation with Mayor
Hall, yesterday evening ordered the police
to disperse-not the mob which might in
terfere with peaceabe procession-but
the procession itself. The shepherd, "act-
ing under legal ADVICE has taken the
part of the wolves. Therefore you are
ordered, writes Mr. Keso to the captains
Of police, ito prevent the formation and
progression of the public street procession
for the 10Th Instant
From the Herald
The spirit which prompted these threats
against the Orangemen must be put down.
1t is the same spirit which prompted the
draft riots of 1868, inducing men to burn
asylums where children were nurtured,
and hang negroes to lamp posts. 1t is the
same spirit which was exhibited at Elm
Park last year,
Brennan, Connolly, Sweeny and Tweed
are all out of town trying to invent some
means of dumping" the 18th of July.
They can all return now. Kelso has set
| tied it.
From the Tribune.l
The mob and its friends have ordered our
amiable Mayor to put down the parade of
| the Orangemen, and he has consented in
| this roundabout way. He furnishes the
rhetoric, and the Chief of Police has prob
ably little to do but to sign his name.
The Mayor and the Chief of Po-
| lice have saved the rowdes the trouble of
breaking the law by doing 1t themselves.
[From the Times.]
The city authorities are afraid of their
own supporters; they now officially pro-
claim that the city is absolutely in the
hands of the Irish Catholics. They can
not even undertake to preserve the public
peace when the Papists threaten to break
| it. 1t is for this that we are taxed more
| heavily than at any period of our history
it is for this sort of government that we
are made to expend over $50 900, 900 year.
| Two out of four of our city rulers are big
oted Roman Catholics, the men who prop
| up the city government are Roman Cath
olics, and now 1t is decided that Protestants
have only such rights as Catholics choose
to accord them. We suppose this will be
submitted to, like every other abuse. We
| live in easy-going times. But the day will
come when great and free community
| will not always lie down meekly, to be
ridden over by the men who burn down
orphan asylums, and whose influence is
fatal to every phase of civil and religious
liberty. $500
From the SUM.
"There will be no Orange parade on the
18th. Superintendent Kelso has issued an
order forbidding it. He says he has been
legally advised to take this step. 1t would
be interesting to learn whose legal advice
no has followed.
Superintendent Kclso, however, repre-
sents the democratic rulers Of this city. He
has received his orders from them. They
have been terrified by the threats of the
Hibernian societies, and have bowed their
heads. They hare virttdtly submitted to
mob rule. They have confessed that the
will of secret organization has more
weight with them than the rights Of the
people:
"rhis action Of Superintendent Kelso
will create profound impression through
out the country. It's effect will be as inju'
| rious to the democratic party at the nex'
| Presidential election as was the pusillan
unity OF James Buchanan in 1850, and
that of Horatio Seymour in 1868, at the
election of 1864. The American people
never forgive cowardice in their leaders
and of all cowardice this trucking of oul
democratic city authorities to the threat:
Of the Hibernians is the worst that ha,
b cen exhibited for many a long day."
MEETING OF MgRcHA NTs kSTHK PRODUCE tx
CHANGE.
A large and exciting meeting was held
J at the Produce exchange by the members o
that organization, this afternoon, to eX
press their Indignation at the proclamation
Of Mayor Hall, forbidding the Orange
mems parade tomorrow.
Frequent cries of "down with Mayor
HalP were heard, and great indignation
was generally expressed at the conduct O
; the city officials.
: We find the following in the Bainbridg
(Ga.) Sun: ..
Last Monday, was brought before Judg
= Gurley's court u negro named Levi
. Young, charged with cruelty to his ward