The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-13

American feoptc.
The Orange parade is over, and the riot
which accompanied it is also past. The 18th
of July will be remembered in the future of
this city, not so much on account of the events
of yesterday as because of their meaning and
significance. The day was one Of bloody
also with severe lesson for those who en-
gage in lawlessness and mob violence. Many
of those who yielded to fiery hate and insan-
safe fury, defying the law Of the land and the
authorities whose duty it was to execute the
law, met the fate they SO justly merited.
Others are prisoners in the hands of the police.
A few good men, seeking to preserve order
and protect the rights of all, fell in the per-
Torrance of their duty but while we deplore
their loss and offer such consolation as we
may to those to whom their death is a sore
bereavement, we cannot refrain from congrat-
ulating Che community that the majesty of the
law was INDICATED and the rights of the
people upheld.
The events Of the day, though sufficiently
deplorabe. have bright and good side.
Everywhere, on the part of the authorities,
The police aud the militia, there were COM
plete good faith and manly devotion to duty.
Governor Hoffman was assisted by those
whose duty it was to aid him with intelli-
gepce and alacrity. The police officers man.
aged their force admirably, and the men
showed great frmness and steadiness. On
the part Of the military both officers and men
We'd with each other in facing the enemy and
capable of learning. II will be long before
the ignorant few, drunk with passion and
prejudice, who yesterday set themselves up
against the people and sought to deny to
others the same privileges which are so freely
accorded to them, will again repeat their
dreadful experiment or demand so fearful a
punishment. There is peace to-day where
yesterday there were riot and blood
she'd but, in the sacred presence of death,
and out of the grief of bereaved mothers and
sisters, there is once more, in letters of indy
ing glsIy the sssasanss .sas s9s AMerican
| people mean liberty for all, and will not per-
nit the rights of any, be they strong or weak.
| TO be trampled upon.
| Much credit is due to Governor Hoffman for
| his share in yesterdays work. His procla-
nation came late, it is true-too late to prove
as useful in allaying the passions of the null
titpde as it otherwise would have been; but
it was so free from anything that could give
able, that its influence for good is incalculable.
1t exhibited no desire to shrink from great
public duty or to evade that duty in the face
OF grave public danger. 1t was manly,
straightforward document, holding out protec-
ton to those who needed ii and indicating a
swift retrbution for those requiring punish
ment. The Recorder of 1868 showed himself
| the same man as the Governor of 1871. There
| was now, az then, the same Impotence with
! murder and riot--the same determination to
enforce the law aud punish the lswbreakers.
He breathed only fire and sword for those
who had determined to break the peace aud
shed the blood Of others. In all things, from
earnest, energetic, in suppressing the mob
violence which il was plain must have come.
| To him Is due the honor OF preserving the
| city from even worse scenes than those
which we're witnessed in Eighth avenue. He
| lifted ND the trailing flag o. our common
| country and held aloft the glorious old Star
spangled Banner. He rescued the city from,
the disgrace of surrender to the mob, and
! vet left no credit to the kings on account Of
whose battles the mob had gathered. He
made the American spirit Of liberty TO all men,
Of every nation and Of every CLINE. Triumphant
at the very moment when great city was
bowling in shame and burning with Indignation
because she feared herself poweress in the
emergency,
That the events of the last two or three
DAYS viii have an important political bearing
no one can doubt. How the country regards
the surrender Of Tammany We already know
how il will act upon it's opinion of tb'
storm Of Indignation which il excited has no