Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-07-29
olympia, SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 20, 1871,
Partisan MeanncSS.

There has rarely an occasion occurred
which has developed SO much partisan
meanness and duplcity as the late riot in
New York and the manner of its suppress
sion. The Radical papers dcnounce the
order of Mayor Hall to prohibit the Orange
procession, as denial Of freedom of opn-
ion to Protcstants at the dictaton of Pa
pis.s; and the same papers condemn Gov
ernor Hoffman for using the power vested
in him to protect the Orangcmcn from mob
violence, and strive to affix the stigma of
innocent blood upon his hands for using
the only means at his command to accom-
plish the purpose. Both the Mayor and
the Governor are censurcd by the same
papers for pursuing directly opposite meas.
ures to the same intent; the Mayor for
attempting to avert bloodshed by suppress.
ing the provocation, and the Governor for
vindicating the constitution and the laws
by the strong arm Of military power. The
New York Tribune in the same issue de-
nounces the mob and the entire class to
which its members belong in the most bit.
ter terms which the language affords. and
holds Governor Hoffman up to the resent
ment of the same class as the man upon
whose hands is the blood of their fellows.
In the unbiased judgment of all intelli.
gent men, the Mayor, as conscrvator of
the public peace, and the Governor, as the
Executive, are severally justified in their
action not only by abundant precedent but
by the arbitrary necessities of the occasion.
The provocation to this public outbreak
belongs exclusively to the Orangemcn, with
whom all radical papers sympathizo. Their
organization has nothing in common with
republican institutions and religious tolcra-
ton; they arc sworn vassals of royalty and
perpetual enemies of the Roman Catholic
Church. Their festal day is the anniver-
sary of the most humiliating and bloody
event in Irish history, and is associated in
the minds of all Irishmen with all the
subsequent wrongs and woes of that subju-
gated and oppressed people. The celcbra.
ton Of this event is we'll calculated, and
can serve no other purpose, than to pro-
woke to the last pitch Of frenzy, people so
proverbially sensitive, impulsive, and devot-
ed to their country, its traditions and reli-
gion, as Irishmen of the Roman Catholic
faith; it has never been attempted in Ire
land, England, Canada or the United
States, without greatly disturbing the
public peace; Protestant England prohib.
the public celebrations of this society by
Act of Parliament, and it is an insolent
abuse Of the institutions of this country,
which guarantee freedom of opinion to all,
to attempt to transplant here the religious
and political feuds Of the old country and
of afeudal age. This, however, does not
justify mob violence, for that is a resort for
retaliation or redress which does not dis
eriminate between rights and wrongs, and
puts in jeopardy the tenure upon which all
personal rights arc held. The Mayor and
the Governor were sworn officers of the
government, with no right of discrinina-
ton between party friends and foes, but
bound to maintain the laws, resist violence,
and defend the constitutional right of the
people to peaccably assemble for any pur-
pose not prohibited by law.
But ell asscmblages or organizations of
American eitizens of foreign birth to cele.
brate or perpetuate any of the party or
national feuds Of other lands or other sys.
TENS OF government, are manifest abuse
oftheir privileges. The public demonstra-
tions of the Germans on one side and the
French on the other. during the late Eu-
ropcaa war, were Of this character, as was
also the late Sunday procession in San
Francisco, in commemoraton of Papal DO
'iticat ascepaaacy
This country offers asylum to all political
eSiles, not battle field for all the con.