Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-08-03


The following article clipped from
the Tribune headed political Lunacy"
is certainly some index to the coming
of political destiny of New York. The
Obstinate and unrepublican stand Of
the Irish in the city cannot fail to draw
many sensible and law loving Demo-
Gratis throughout the State into the
ranks of any party that will oppose ar
rogant and clanish mobocrats. De-
mocracy in that State will require dex-
trous handling if its weathers through
the next campaign.
POLITICAL LUNACY.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they
first make mad. What Hall aud Hof-
man, Tweed and Connolly, and the
Ribbon rioters, have neglected doing
among them to render the name OF
Democrat utterly odious from one end
of the country to the other, sundry
Irishmen-mostu unworthy representa-
tives of their race-in this city seem
determined to supply. Apolice officer
named Logan, who had not only fail ed
to do his duty in dispensing a riotous
crowd on the 18th of July, but when
brought to trial had behaved himseli
| in an outrageous manner, and insisted
upon making of his conduct a religious
Question, was very properly dismissed
the force. Thereupon, an Irish meet
| ing was held at Emmet Hall, to ex.
press sympathy with the men who
threw off ssthe uniform of the base
| L ,,o1ioanao,1t, ro&ho,s %Io,, oI,,1
Irish Catholics, even when they were
in a riot, and to propose his election
ito some high place of trust where
those who dismissed him would have
to recognize him as superior" The
audience was in the most enthuiastit
mood; the orators were unusually
| frank, even for Irishmen; and if the
! democratic leaders did not writhe with
anguish when they read of the amaz
ing folly of their friends and supper
ters, they are not the astute demago
CUES we take them for. "You have
been always led to suppose" said one
OF the speakers, "that the Irish ruled
i the City of New York, and when yoI
pledged yourselves to support Hoff
man and those who nominated him, b,
land they assured us in turn that every
thing obnoxious to as should hare bee7
abolished. Have they keep that prom
ise?O To far as Gov. Hoffman is con
cerned, the answer of the meeting
seems to have been emphatic. He i
to be ssswept out of every place of trus
or power.D and one orator, to the mex
pressible delight of the assemblage, de
lnounced him as s'the wretch, the butch
Ter of Dutch descent, who helped tht
Orangemen to insult hundreds O
thousands of Roman Catholic Irish
!, men in this city," as the offspring O.
the Hessian mercenaries, and ga mur
derer, if not in person then by agen
1ey." ~sI
! 1t wouldno be Of much consequence
what a few score excited Irishmen saw
4 fit to say in Emmett Hall, if we coulC
be sure that their two or three hundred
thousand countrymen in New Yorl
land its suburbs did not share their sen
timents. And if there is any duty
which before all others respectable
Irish owe to themselves and their party
it is to show that whatever they think
of Hoffman, they are the friends o
order and equal rights. There is dan
Iger that out Of these deplorable riot
there may spring up violent sectariaI
and anti-Irish sentiment, and the dan
ger is created by just such intemperatt
language as that used at Emmett Hall
The Democratic party will certainly b,
severely injured by the course which
lso many of its supporters seem ben
upon pursuing. That of course w
shall not regret; but ifreligious pre-
Ijudice and antipathies of race are to b
introduced into our political warfare i
will be graveimisfortune for the who'll
Icountry.-N. Y. Tribune.