New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-28


OF general riot, showing the town to be il
condition making the people OF the streets
more regal than judges or officers of the law
The American Psess in Dublin.
Dublin, Ireland, is regard ed as thu
| nursery OF New York Herald reporters, ant
school Of journalism has been established
there TO increase the supply Of newspapel
men for the Herald market. OF course il
such school American journalism is par
ticularly studied, and some of the know!
edge impaired must have escaped from tn,
college walls and become the property o
gentlemen of other Professions. We shall
presently sos By a speech reported in the
New York Times. Alderman Cole, il ap
pears. escaped from New York, for recrea
ton, and has been eating in Dublin. The
Dublinites became impressed with the ides
that dinner was the proper thing to give
an American alderman. There is some
thing safe about dinner: all pc ople eat;
and when you have an illustrious stranger
on your hands, and do not know what to dc
with him ask him to dinner, after takin g
him to the poorhouses, jaifs, orph an and in
sane asylume, and other places of public
interest, to improve his appetite. Well, the
Dublin corporation gave dinner to Alder
man Cole. who represents the stomach of
America. Among other toasts was one to
the American press. 1t was offered by
William Lane Joynt, solicitor to the crown
and treasury. who said, honestly and ear
nestly, what would have sounded most
comical from the mouth of Mark Twain:
Alderman Cole represents the municipal
by his fellow -burgesses of New York, and
thus we, who venerate and regard munici.
pal institutions, have agreed to honor and
regard him as their representative. Hear,
hear think it is IagO, in one of the plays
of the master of humaa nature. who SAYS,
81 am nothing if not critical" Now, can
not set up for critic, but will, with your
permission, alter the phrase little and say
II am nothing if not municipal" [Cheers ]
joining tonight in this demonstration.
[Hear, hear.] Yet another and higher
feeling animated me tonight. If there be
one thing moro than another true OF the
American people, it is the high position and
the honor they award to the members of
the press of their great country. Hear,
hear. l believe l am correct in stating tbat
Alderman Cole is member of that press,
and while | am not bound by any special
enunciate, and while speak of the Ameri-
can press as great institution of modern
civilization and modern ideas, yet I am
bound to express the delight 1 feel that
that press, of which he is the representative
here tonight, has given to the world OF lit
erature, OF statesmanship, of authorship,
and to the higher realms of imagination,
some of the brightest ornaments of modern
American society, names that the world
sell Lowell. the author of the Biglom Papers,
is an American pressman, and refused the
highest diplomatic hOnors. [Hear, hear.
Mr.. James Cullen Bryant was lately
crowned in the capital of his country, as
his country's laureate, with honors which
reminded one of the times of Petrarch,
icheers, and he has been, and is still,
hard working member of the American
press. The inimitable author of the "Heath-
en- Chinee," Mr.. John Greenleaf Whittier, is
the editor OF an American journal, and l
hope will yet rival and surpass those COM
positions OF more serious character which
entitle him to he better known IN this
country, [cheers:j and, l believe, am not
wrong in supposlng that the name of Long
fellow, itself household word in this coun-
try, was associated with the American
press. Cheers.j
The solicitor of the crown speaks of
crowning James Bryant in the capital of
his country. We had not heard of that,
although we know that William Cullen
Bryant once crowned Charlotte Cushman
when she made "her last appearance on any
STAGE" just before commencing her Phila-
delphia engagement; but there is no record
that any person by the name Of Bryant
and poor Dan Bryant is dead-was ever
crowned at Washington. There is one
thing, however, with which the speaker did
not charge Mr.. Bryant, and that WAS ire
fusing high diplomatic honore," as he said
Of Lowell. Mr.. Bryant never refused
foreign mission, and the President ought to
know that he would not. Whittier, who
has not hing to do, will be able to defend
himself from the charge of being an editor
Or the author Of Bret Harte. It is the in
tention of Alderman Cole to dine with the
lord mayor of London and the burgomaster
Of Hiedelburg. We trust he will do honor
TO tho digestive organs of his country, and
correct any little misstatements he may
hea, regarding the American press.