Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-13
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THURSDAY MORNING.. July 10, 1871.
REPUBLICAN, NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
SIDNEY PERHAM,
OF PARIS.
now DO YOU LIKE 1T?

HOW DO you LIKE 1T?
The city of New York shows demo-
cratic majority of from forty to sixty
thousand. 1t is entirely ruled in all its
departments of government by democrats.
They WELD and shape its municipal power
as they please, subject only to the higher
authority of the State and National Governs
ments.
In that city then it is fair to reckon that
we have an exemplification of democratic
principles in their practical working and
enforcement. The field is their own. So
far from the republican party being able to
dispute with any degree of success the
supremacy of democrats within the limits
of the city, the latter not only control the
city, but shape the legislation of the State
to large extent, and lead the democracy
of the country. Let us consider one Of
the results.
The Orangemen of the city. who are Pro-
testants. designed to celebrate accord
ingto their long established custom the an
niyersary of the battle of the Boyne, by
procession, banners, music, &c. But the
Catholics of the city being aware of the in
tentioi of the Orangemen determined to
prevent it. For this purpose they orga-
nized and armed and threatened riot and
bloodshed if the celebration and process
sion were attempted. Last year, while
the Orangemen were peaceably celebrat-
ing in Elm Park, with their wives and chill
dren, they were assailed by a large party
of Irish, some ofthem laborers employed
by the city. and in the melee quite num-
Der were killed or MORALLY wounded and
many more were seriously injured. This
year the rioters prepared to squelch the
whole celebration, let the cost be what il
might, and by the aid of the city govern
ment they came near being successful.
When the Orangemen found that they
were threatened with assault if they I'M
dertook to march, they applied to the city
authorities for protection against the riot
ers. The answer which they received was
an elaborate order from Superintendent
Kelso to the police, acknowledging the
receipt of the application for protection
but arguing that the Orangemen had nc
right to march through the streets, and
instructing the police to prevent the form.
alton of the procession Thus in obedience
to the demands of the ruffians who threat.
ened outrage, violence, bloodshed, the
city authorities took the side of those who
were law-breakers in intent, forbade
peaceable citizens to assemble in the streets
in procession according to custom, and in
structed the police to prevent them if they
attempted it. 1t is not very difficult to
see that this was a combination of the city
authorities and the ruffian Irish against
the law-abiding citizens. The peaceable
citizens were suppressed; the rioters were
sustained. The Orangemen only asked to
be let alone as other professions are, and
the answer was that they must fight the
police as well as the Irish if they under
took to march. This reminds us of that
other riot, when those who burned the
orphan Asylum and hunted innocent neg
roes 10 death in the streets, were addressed
by Governor Seymour as my friends
1t Is a strange way to kept the peace.
But there was religious element in
this business. The one party were Protest
ants the other Catholics. The Protestants
desired to march in commemoration If d,
special occasion. IL they did it is notbinr
more than they have always done, and no
more than Catholics do in the streets @.
New York and other cities of the United
States. The Irish celebrated St. Patrick's
day and nobody interfered with them
Other occasions are celebrated by other
denominations.
This is government in which one sec
has no privileges that another has not Al
stand equal under the constitution. 1t wa
then the right by law and according tt
practice from the foundation of the gov,
eminent, under the religious phase of the
subject. that the Orangemen should have
their procession and be protected if neces.