Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-03
Nasty.
GEsTs AN ATTACHMENT BY WHICH
RIOTS MAY BE HEREAFTER AVOIDED.

THE RIGHT TO PARADE-MR. Massey SUG
GEsTs AN ATTACHMENT BY WHICH
RIOTS MAY BE HEREAFTER AVOIDED
CoNFEDERIT y ROADS, (WHICH is II
THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY July 10
1871.-The riots in Moo York affected m,
terribly. Viewed from any standpint
the occurrence was deplorsble. Tive
hundred Dimocrats shot down by tn,
brootal military who will never rally t.
the polls agin, and will never agin repeat
their votes, no matter how high the price
And all this becoz them noble-miudet
sons NV Erin insistid on the rite to dictat,
who sbood and who shood not parade the
streets Nv their city Nv New York
hev, however, the consolashen Nv know
ing that it won't make any difference il
our majority in that city. There is ship
on the sea bringing more Irishmen, who
kin be made voters in four hours after
they land, and eff no more comes, them e.
is here kin vote oftener. 1t may be neses
sary to furnish sum Nv EN- HOSES anc
buggies, and they may get around to the
polls faster, but that will be all.
he'd my little trouble on the same day
1t SO happened that the children of our
church he'd pitched upon the 18th NV July
ez the day for their picnic, and it so hap.
pened that Pollock hevip lot Nv damag.
ed yaller calico, Deekin Pennibacker
bought it to make rosettes for the child.
rem and sash for myself, who wuz to
cheef marshal EN-.
The mite afore we received q letter from
Dennis O'Shoughnessy, Patrick O'Brien
and Shamus O'Daly, the three 1rishmen
who live at the corners station, that they
understood it wuz the intention Nv the
Protestants Nv the Corners to celebrate
the battle Nv the Boyne with an Orange
procession. They gave notice that it had
better be abandoned, for they wood not
hev their feelins injured. After the war
min eff blood shood be shed they could not
be held responsible.
No one in the Corners-that is, the
natives-hsd ever heersd nv the battle Nv
the Boyne, or knowd wot Orange ment,
and so, takin it as joke, no attenshun
wuz paid to il, for no proceshun had ever
been mobbed at the Corners but nigger
processhuns. But next moruin when the
processhun moved volley NV stones
greeted US. l was ridin proudly at its
head on B4scom's mule, and one well-di-
rected rock hurled me senseless to the
ground, and ez the shepherd wuz smitten
the sheep wuz scattered. Dennis o.
Shou2hnessy told US that the feelins Nv
the Catholic citizens Nv the Corners
shood never be outraged so long ez he he'd
strength to handle clsb or heave a stun.
Sum Nv eur people was indignant, but l,
the chief sufferer, wuZ not / he'd lived
IN Moo York, witch iZ mostly Irish, and
KNOWN their idiosyncracies WIZ wiilin TO
forgiv EN-. There amt no better Dino
Gratis anywhere than these men, and no
rock kin be throwi wich kin max me do
anythin agin that orQanizsshun NV wich
these men is the backbone.
And when l got a paper and read Nv
the riots in Moo York a lite beamed onto
me. Ez the Catholic Irishmen don't like
the orange color on the 18th NV July, /
wonder that the three we hev contented
themselves with merely hesvin rocks at
US. 1t is not to be expected that they
will allow any demonstrsshen which
hurts their feelins to be made without an
attempt to suppress il. The ardent son
Nv Erin is an impulsive creacher who de
lites in hevin his own way. They hev
taken charge nv the government nv the
city of Moo York and they ought not to
be interfered with, nor will they be.
l see but one way to prevent sich diff
fculties hereafter, and that plan I sub
NIT to the consideration of the American
people, ez follows:
Let an ordinance be passed by the com
mon council of Moo York, providing for
the appointment Nv committee who shell
hev sole control nv professions and all
public displays, said committee to consist
Nv ten Catholic priests Nv Irish birth, and
ten Catholic laymen nv Irish birth. To
this committee all these matters shell be
They shell hev the power to say
wat societies shel, and wat societies shell
not parade, and also wat banners, colors
and insignia shell be displayed, wat toons
shell be played, and on wat days sich dis
plays shell be made.
Wv course this committee would be lib
eral. They wood never object to the cell
ebrashen of the Fourth of July for that
triumph over British
tyranny; perticulerly eff the procession
wood pledge themselves to carry the
green flag and hev ther bands play ma
tional airs, only.
The followin' suppose, would be the
tenor Nv most NV the answers to applica-
'huns for the privilege of paradin:
To the superintendent u0-h street
Methodist Sunday st00l.: Permission re-
fused. On the route proposed for the
procession lives three hundred Catholic
families which wood be offended at it.
The committee does not want to be both
cred with sich applications, ss none Nv EN-
will be granted.
his
Signed PATRICK SMCGEE,