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

to himself or society, has perfect liberty
to set about its development without i'm.
pediment from class or a system. Tie
Americans have another immense advan-
tage. He has no awe of anybody. A
king or high priest, adorned with all the
adventitious insignia Of rank or attend
ance, is no more than an average circus.
OF ether dramatic display. The American
republican does not scare worth a cent.
and proceeds as calmly with his enter
prise in such presence as he may have
done in the battlefelds OF council cham.
bers Of his own country.
These American rifemen are apparently
Of English or Irish alliance. Why have
! they crossed the ocean and beaten their
own blood and lineage, not only in skill.
bu: in the manufacture OF the weapons
they welded. Look at the British system.
Ireland, the home Of people as richly
endowed with natural attributes of worth.
courage and genius as any country on
earth, has no right Of equal suffrage Or
representation, no right to bear and to use
arms. no popular education. From Ireland
have immigrated annual thousands OF
men and women who seek America for
advantages which England denies them
What wonder, then, that the Irishman.
liberated and Disseminated from the re-
strictions which bind hin, at every step.
should return, the superior in knowledge,
dress and bearing to the father who re-
NAMED under the benumbing system
which has bound the brigh: and beautiful
isle in subordinate dependence to people
perhaps Individually their interiors:
The rife match displays this American
unawed equanamity Of temper in a stlih-
ing point Of views. .'The police was
powerless." ''There were symptoms of
Reorganization in the crowd OF thirty |
thousand. 1.-The Americans refused to |
proceed with the firing until order should |
have been restored" The crowd cheer |
ing rushed across tie groun! causing
great disorder.
Bodine, the American republicans. onietiy |
takes his position for the last shot, aud the |
crowd ranges itself along the line of fire,
leaving wide opening toward the targets,
bat only wide enough to expose two o. the
targets to the view of the tirer. All control
has been lost over them, but Bodine Ties
still and silent. A puff Of smoke. and the
crack Of his rife is heard, and his eul!e:
1attens in the bulls eye.
It mattered no: TO tina. ri1leman whether
: mob or monarch stood by TO awe him
him into agitation. He did not know and
aid rot care whether his grandsire ''drew
. good bow at the battle Of Hastings or
cot. His duty was plain. He had come
here to perform it. and his reply to all
hat could disturb or intimidate was
'ullet tina: 'fattens in the,bulrs eye /
Glorious system Of freedom. Splendid
estimonials to the value of human equality.
)ne Of the Oldest governments in the
World sprung from struggle agains: des-
'otisn., bringing with a noble and tilial
iety the nutrinlent OF vigorous youth to
upply the decrepitudc Of parental error.
he system which gives all men an equal
Ight to serve the State will continue to
riumph over the systems which hmi. this
ght in monopoly to class. The victory
I the american rifemen is but one resul.
this superiority. It may go on until
le words OF al English poet, and per. ,
APPS prophet. may be realized: 1.-THE =.
ingdoms are fast perishing. There ought
} be a universal republic. and there vii! :
e." {