The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-06-17

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OSAO ANAI Ao1O1A AlAL l.
Week of Feverish Anxiety-No Clue Ye
to the Attempted Assassins Of vande,
bilt and Field-Jay Gonld, Jim Keel,
and Russell Sage-How They Feel T;fec
ofthe Great Irish Meeting, Etc, Etc.
:. -. New YORK, May q, 1882.
Error CHIEF;
A week of feverish anxiety and up
heaval-unsettled weather, unsettle,
stock market, unsettled labor market
unsettled everything-no clue to tn
would be assassins who attempted th
life Of Vanderbilt and Field; men ar
asking themselves if they will try i
over again ON the same men or if the,
will pick out a new subject the mex
time-whether it will be Russell Sage
Jim Keene, or, likeliest of all, Jay
Gould. It is an uncomfortable thing tc
think Of. If an army of million of men
every one of whom was sworn to die in
his defense, could not save the Russian
Gear, and the love Of fifty millions Of
,freemen and free women could not shield
James A. Garfield, what hope is there
then for the men whose lives have been
passed in schemes Of spoliation, and who
have awakened hates and antagonisms
SO bitter and so deadly as it is possible
for the heart of man to conceive9
In a public meeting the other night, a
man calling himself an American cheered
for assassination. If James :Redpaih is
an American, it is news to me; 1 have
always understood he was an English
man his whole life has been passed IN
revolution. He it was who went down
to Kansas with old John Brown, aud
from that day to this lie has been seek
ing cheap notoriety, where there was no
particular danger. He is small edition
of George Francis Train, without Trains
brains. His cheers for assassination
found echoing voices, for there is moth
ing that could he said or done SO bad
that it would hot find response in New
York. The fellows who cheered assas-
ssination the other night were all impor-.
ted stock, and with the exception of the.
.Eng:islinan Redpath. the whole Of them
were from Ireland. It was in vain that
the better class of Irishmen begged aud
.'mplored them to- behave themselves
they knew they were in no danger, and
they resolved to make blackguards and
,ruf1ians OF themselves, and they sue
ceeded to Il charm. One thing was very
evident, however, notwithstanding their |
noise and bluster, and that was that
they only compose miserable minority |
of the Irish population of New York.
There were thousands of representative
.lrishmen there to denonounce the great
crime, not against England but against
Ireland, and tins was particularly en-
phasized by the fact that the Mayor Of
the first city Of the Union, who presided
at the meeting, was an Irishmali born
as indeed are many Of the city's most
prominent officers who were seated OH
the platform with him; but assassina-
ton was cheered and dynamite, notwith-
standing the remonstrance of the better
portion OF the meeting, and the conduct
OF the revolutionary faction was SO dis
graceful that scarcely city paper gave
a faithful report of tue meeting.
1t seems as if tile time was sadly out
OF joint, as Shakespeare has It. If you ask
a man about politics nobody seems to
know any thing, Or to be hardly able to
give an opinion. asked an old politi-
cian, one who l know has been on the
inside Of the Ring for years, who was
going to be the next candidate for Gov
ernor, and lie did not know any NOR.
about it than Hottentot. Party lines
seem to be fading out; men who swore
ny l.mmany four years ago, to-day are
trying to pull it down, and men who
lsw"re at Tammany four years ago are
now trying to build it up. John Kelly has .
been killed as dead as a door nail, at
least a dozen times, within as many II
months, and to see him now in the midst {
OF a general Tammany pow-wow lie is s
The iivellest ghost that can be found in
me state Of New York between Iontauk |
FONT and Buffalo. Don't run away with c
he idea that the great Winowski is d. Z
fnnct for he is not; don't believe he is r
abandoned by his followers, for he il L
not every man who has been won from t
me lanmany ranks has had to be paid I
Tor, and when the Offices give out recruit e
ing steps. Iam,nany is Il power in New O
ok city. AS long as ignorance and II
CRIME exist, Tammany will exist; while Ii
the army of unhnng villains that swell t
our calendars of crime can go up to the o
polls and neutralize the votes of honest s.
citizens, just SO long Tammany Hall will v
remain an important factor in State and a
politics. It's just as we'll that ii
we should know where we stand; John "
Kelly may not be able to say who will he p
President, aud whichever side wins will h
have to do it viii, the gid Of Tammany s.
Hall. They may squir,a aud swear, they Sc
nay resolve themselves into reform com n
nittees, but it won't do; tue hard fact tt
einains that down in the slunis are ! cl
,inare forty Thousand votes which can s.
10 hurled by john Kelly against any Fl
'arty, Democratic or Republican, Green a,
az. Hard Money, il makes no diff m