Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-20
The New York Riot.

There have been bloodier and more
obstinate riots in this country than
that at New York yesterday, but none
has ever caused a more general or
more intense excitement. The issue
raised is one that affects the rights
of all American citizens of whatever
party or creed. 1t touches the foun-
dation of our free governments gov
ernment of the people. in which every
man has equal civil rights, in which no
religious hierarchy is privileged above
the humblest sect. No obscurity rests
on the origin OF the trouble. There is
no doubt where the responsibility be-
longs. Glad should we be were it pos
sible to say that only the guilty suf-
fered.
The simple truth is, the Irish Catho-
lies have come to believe they own
New York, if not this whole country.
Their ST. Patrick's Day is great
event in that city, and they delight on
other occasions in Haunting, in street
parade, the symbols of their supreme
allegiance to the Pope. Nobody has
interfered with their enjoyment of this
privilege; but they were quite mistak-
en- in supposing that they had yet
gained such complete mastery in the
city as. to prevent Irish Protestants
from celebrating, in their usual man
ner, the Triumph of Professionalism in
Great Britain. True, they had Mayor
Oakey Hall under their thumb TEro'
ballot stuf1ng and other like cohgenial
work on election days.they keep Tam
many i'll power, and Hall is the crea,
ture of TammanY. Hence, when the
Hihernian Societies--the Ribbonmen-
said THE Orangemen shall not pa
rade this year," Hall and his Lienten /
ant, Superintendent Kelso, trembled-
Catholics were fully armel, and
had sworn TO stop the Protestant pro-
cession, Hall and Kelso-if reports
are not very much at fault-conferred
with Gov. Hoffman, another tool
of Tammany, and an aspirant for the
Presidency, as to whether they should
do so unheard- of thing as to forbid,
instead of protecting, the procession
Just then came the peremptory utter
ance of Archbishop McClosky The
| Orange procession ought to be pre-
veated by the city authorities And
Kelso issued his order to stop it.
What storm was that which fol
! lowed this trucking and contemplate
compliance with an insolent demand
First. il was the demand of a lawless
mob, threatening violence on account
of difference of religious opinion
Then the demand was seconded by the
Papal Archbishop, who, while earn
estly advising his congregation to let
the Orangemen alone, declared that
the legal authorities ought TO put them
down. The result should be lesson
to both classes of these meddlers with
the lawful privileges of their fellows.
Gov. Hoffman has been much laud
ed in some quarters tor countermand-
ing the imbecile orders of Hall and
Kelso. He only yielded and changed
front when he saw political ruin i'm
pending if he did not. Had he taken
the.right stand two days earlier, all
trouble might have been saved. The
mob, exulting in their first victory,
, were less easily controlled under the
exaspeating disappointment which fol-
lowed Hoffman's change Of front.
We deplore the result, in so far as
the innocent have suffered, yet the les
son was needed by the insolent and
the riotous who were made to succumb
by force. The procession marched
The fact that Irish Protestants have
thesame rights in this country as Irish
Catholics, and will be as fully sustain
? ed in enjoying them, has been definite
ly proved, In the conflict thus pro
voked, the rioting party have been
greatly the losers. In day, we have
seen the revival, throughout the length
and breadth of the land, of old feel
ings' in regard to the attempted en-
croachments of the Papacy in our civil
and political affairs, which years can.
not ailay.- Cjn. Chronicle