Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-19
The Press On the Mob,
Iron 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 fine distinctions.
They could not understand, even if they
could read, the cumbrous reasoning of the
Mayor in General Order No. 81. What
they see broadly and distinctly 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
permit tied 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.
From the Tribunc.l
A CHANGE OF FRONT.-The absence of
principle and the open shamelessness
which are the characteristics of our City
| Government, for once serve n 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Circular is withdrawn, and the Governor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 il is threaten
| QG ~ nf a or o.
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 a national inn
portauce, 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-
a ton the Democratic organization of the
!, city had assumed. His action comes toe
, late to save the party from that popular
! condemnation which always follows sucf
q criminal blunders.
?. [From the Herald
: The surrender is the more unfortunate
: for the Tammany Democracy, because il
i settles nothing definately. The spirit o
!, concession has ere now ruined the Demo
l. cratic party. Concessions to the lawles
border ruffians in Kansas brought il int
- | ulSrepuJe, anu eventually Splt IL INTO the
X Douglas and Breckenridge faction in 1860
e concession to the spirit Of rank Treason
Z cast upon ii an ineffaceable blot in 1861
d concessions to the fighting mobs of tn,
II Southern Confederacy marked its caree
Is through the war and shut the gates of tn
;, White House against it for eight years ,an'
> it may prove that its concession to tn
o mob spirit Of the Hibernians to-day will
u close the gates against ii for four year
longer.
a from the Standard
# OF Mayor Halls order it says:
IS "But il is as a political mistake that
v will attract most attention throughout tn
e country. The New York Democrats, act
q ing at the behest of Tammany Hall, ar
/. all looking TO Gov. Hoffman as the Demo
d cratic nominee at the next Presidential
d election. Mayor Hall and his catspaw, Kel
n so, have killed Gov. Hoffman dead as
Y doOrnail Gov. Hoffman at the Whit
,e House, as the tool of Tammany, after lat
events, would never, for one moment, b
l. tolerated. What would the Presbyterian
d OF Pennsylvania, the Methodist of tn
s. Western States, the Baptists of the South
e and the extreme Puritans Of the East sa,