The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-07-25
Mibblrburp 8egister .
TUESDAY. JULY 25, 1871.
After the Riot.

strong for concealment. 1t breaks out
in Indignation meetings, threats and in
dignant protests. Stephen j. Meany of
the Irish Democrat lately said, in char
acteristic and inAamatory speech at a
public meeting in New York: "There
are times when Irishmen must take to
heart some Of the gravest thoughts which
ever filed mans heart first, how we can
avenge the blood which has been shed and,
secondly, how we can secure to men Of
our blood, our breeding and our bone
their proper place in the land of our
adoption"
And again;
ave have work to do; but we must have
no impulsive revenge. | have already taken
steps to secure legal revenge. Now is not the
time for hasty reprisal. Nurse your wrath to
keep it warm Let us first be legally avenged,
and afterwards deal in another manner with the
nien who insult us with their banners and their
party tunes. Be patient but do not be forgiving.
This may not be Christian counsel; but with the
scenes of Wednesday before my eyes, and with, it
may be- the relatives Of some of those who fell By
the murderous fire of the murderous militia, in
front of me, it is the only advice can give you.
Immediate vengeance may do harm. Sthe in
your hearts any harm you would like to infict
upon militiamen, even though you should know
one personally Let the law first take its course,
and afterward-I pledge you you will be fully
satisfied. We are here to make solemn protest.
Now is not the time to take our vengeance. When
it comes we will have it even if they trampe over
the bodies Of every Irishman in America.
Mr.. Meany was endorsed by other
speakers who followed.
The meeting resolved that Governor
Hoffman sis responsible for all the inno-
cent blood shed on that day" and that
'we will keep him in memory should
come forward to look for our suffrages for
any office" The Irish press is very in
dgnant. The Irish People says:
Justice demands the trial and conviction of
Hoffman and his militia who have stained the
character of this nation by their objectionable
madness.
Hall and Hoffman. We shall remember those
names in future; the one for generous recollection
the other for eternal execration
The Irish World thus bowls with i'm
potent rage:
Perhaps this Dutchman, Hoffman. felt in that
hour the influence of common affinity and deemed
It obligatory on him to stand by his distant rela
tives-the Anglo-Orange Goths-who ever
true to the GLORIOUS, pious and immortal memory"
Of William, the Dutch adventurer. And this man
dares to veil his dabolical acts under Of law
and order. We charge that he has violated law
and broken special statute in this very instance.
Out upon the wretch ! Let his name stink for
ever in the nosrils of all the true and the good !,
Let the cry of the orphan, whose home he has left
iisconsoate, blast him and let the hot tear of the
widow whose heart he has made sore rot him in
his pride of place and mperious dcspotism
The Freeman'S Journal says:
The "sober second thought of the people,
lately so excited, will consign John 7. Hoffman
to the obscurity from which he has arisen by
luckier manGuverngs."
Now all that is indicated by these
senseless rawlings, is their rage at being
foiled by their own tool. Hoffman was
elected to the office he now holds by this mob
and with the specific understanding, that
he was to serve his constituents in wrong
as well as right, to aid them in perpetual
ting their control of the public finances.
and protect them in their stealings from
the public treasury. Hence their rage
when it becomes apparent that he was
not party to this nefarious combination
when they discovered that he recogniz.
ed the obligation Of the right protection
to all men. From the earliest history Of
onr country tho light of nublic professions
has never before been questioned. These
Irish Catholics have themselves frequent
ly paraded the streets of our cities il
peaceable procession without molestation
and as under the constitution of the Unit
ed States they had a perfect right to do
And the objection to this procession, in
significant in numbers, as it was, whether
proper or improper, comes with very bad
grace from those who have so frequently
occupied the same position.
The only excuse for objection to Gov
ernor Hoffmans position, is in the assump
ton that no body of men has a right tc
pass in procession through the public
streets; that the allowance of it by the
authorities heretofore has been merely
sufferance, courtesy, or special favor
This assumption discovers gross perver
sion or objectionable ignorance. Th'
constitution guarantees to the citizens o
the United States the right of peaceabl,
assembly as well as petition, and it mat
tiers not whether this assembly is station
hry, or moving, provided the public peac
is not disturbed
And if lawless men take occasion t,
create disturbance because they are no
in sympathy with the public gathering
the responsibility of the riot, is not AM
cannot be made to rest upon the process
sion; and it is plainly the duty of tn
authorities to protect its peaceable citizen
in all lawful circumstances and places
whatever may be their private opinion
as to the expediency or desirability o
their placing themselves in such circum
stances. With this view of the case al
good citizens will approve of Goveno
Hoffman's course in putting down tn
riots Of the 18th instant.
ABOUT TUNNELs.-A difficulty, 70
which adequate provision had not bee