Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-14
WHAT PROVOKED GOV. H0FFMAN'S
PROCLAMATION. 4s
An Indignant Public Force Him to Protect
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An Indignant Public Force Him to Protect
the Orangemen.
Democracy i'm League with an Irish catholic
. ur.r- r, Mob. ~ us r.
| Mayor Halls letter to Grand Master
Bond of the Orangemen advising him not
to have their procession, was written on
the 5th instant. Superintendent Kelso's
order for6iddiog it was issued on the 10th
| instant. These two documents provoked
such storm of public Indignation that on
| the morning of the 10Th, 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.] --
NEW YORK DIsGRACED.-The city
authoritieshave surrendered to the threats
| of a law-defying mob. Superintendent
Kelso, after long consultation with Mayor
| Hall, yesterday evening ordered the police
to disperse-not the mob which might in
| terfere with peaceable prOcessiOn-but
| the procession itself. The shepherd, "act-
| ing under legal advice,u has taken the
part of the wolves. Therefore you are
ordered, ~ writes Mr.. Kelso to the captains
of police, 'to prevent the formation and
progression of the public street procession
| for the 18th 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 jumping" 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
amable 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.
K The Mayor and the Chief of Po-
lice have saved the rowdies the trouble of
breaking the law by doing it themselves.
-..i From the Tmes.l
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 it 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.
tFgom the SUM.
"There will be no Orange parade OH 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
he has followed. ..-a-
Superintendent Kelso, h0WeUer, repre-
Se1ltS the democratic r4LcrS of this city. He
| has receired his orders from them. They
| have been terrified by the threats of the
HibeTnian societies, and have bowed their
1
mob ruLe. They have confessed that the
will of a secret organization has more
weight with them than the rights of the
| people.
"This action of Superintendent Kelso
will create profound impression through
out the country. Its effect will be as iniu-
rious to the democratic party at the next
Presidential election as was the pusillan-
unity of James Buchanan in 1860, and
that of Horatio Seymour in 1868, at the
election of 1864. The American people
| never forgive cowardice in their leaders,
and OF all eowardice this trucking of our
democratic city authorities to the threats
of the Hibernians is the Worst that has
b cen exhibited for many long day.
MEETING OF MERCHA NTs AT THE PRODUCE En-
CHANGE.
A large and exciting meeting was held
at the Produce exchange by the members of
that organization, this afternoon, to ex-
press their Indignation at the proclamation
of Mayor Hall, f0rbidding the Orange
mems parade tomorrow.
Frequent cries of "down with Mayor
Hall' were heard, and great indignation
was generally expressed at the conduct OF
the city officials.
For the Chronicle.
Hurrah for the CHRONICLE! Hurrah
for the editor who wrote the article, THE
CATHOLIC MOB IN NEW YORK." He has