The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-06-10

FepuDHc mOdeied alter the United States
The cry of dpwn with the Sassenach an(
death to the Saxon, has been wortl
untold gold to them, and whenever The
interest began to flag they started new
enthusiasm by announcing that the hour
had come at last to strike blow. This
last dodge always brought a liberal
contribution, and then it was mysterious
" announced that we were on the eve o1
great events. Hundreds of thousands Of
dollars have been filched rom these
poor ignorant dupes, whosegbn ambi.
ton appears to be to initiate Guiteau,
though they lack the courage of the
American assassin, for he shot his victim
down in open day, surrounded By his
frlends--he did it boldly and he did it
alons-but in all the cases of .IAesli,
ontrages which have occurred daring
the last year, where men and wo1fo5s
have been shot and MANNED because tfey
paid their honest debts, five or six, and
as high as twenty men, have pitched on
one poor wretch, manned him for life or
killed him-and this is what they call
patriotism. It is not at all surprising
that all eyes at the present time are
turned to New York. Here we have the
junta which for years has openly advo-
Gated assassination and which only a
few months ago declared their intention
to blow up every steamer in New York
that flies the British flag, and / would
remark, en- passant, that when they do
that we won't have many steamships left
i'll New York. You will recollect that it
is scarcely two months since two men
were detected in the attempt to destroy
one of the New York and Liverpool
steamships alongside the wharf, and it
was only by the vigilance of the officers
that the vessel escaped.
gangs here kpown as butcher-cart
thieves. Their plan was to ride around
in their carts, knock down people and
rob them in open day and escape in the
confusion which ensues they are always
fully armed with knife and pistol; they
wear wigs and false whiskers which can
lies the great difficulty of Identification.
In no other part of the world has this
class of robberies been prosecuted with
such success, for of the many that have
conviction. It is q hard confession to
make; but if ever the assassins are
caught I should not be at all surprised
to learn that they had gone from America
they did. Ireland has suffered much.
and long there is no Christian man or
woman having a heart or a soul, but who
longs to see her condition bettered and
her people happy; her oppression and
her misery find no advocates in America.
When famine struck her, we opened our
purses and our hearts. When she sent
up cry for aid, we never turned our
backs upon her, but it would be better
for the world that she should be sunk
beneath the sea than that these assassns
and thugs should be considered the
representatives of Irish liberty. No cause
ever prospered by such dastardly and
cowardly means, and no cause ever will.
One assuring sign is that the better class
of Irishmen throughout the United
States, the men who have spent the most,
aud sacrificed the most, have been most
earnest in denouncing it. From this
class there. has been one universal cry of
horror not unmingled with despair, and
I hope, for their vindication and for
Ireland's vindication, that the mnrderous
villains may be hunted down.
It is a strange thing to think of people
starving to death in New York. If a
food occurs on the Mississippi, not six
hours will have passed after receiving
the news before lightning trains, loaded
with provisions and clothing, will be
speeding away to the scene of suffering.
When the Ere in Chicago and the conf1a-
grafton in Michigan appealed to MS
thousands upon thousands of dollars
were raised in fact, the purse Of New
York is never closed to the cry of want.
Yet this week woman and three
miserable children were picked up in the
streets, and the woman had not tasted
food for three days, and she was taken to
Bellevue Hospital in dying condition.
! 1t is not a month since l recorded almost
similar case, and this, too, when our
| public charities are costing us between
two and three millions year.
| It may be news to some folks outside,
though we discovered it some time ago
in New York, that the expense Of the
municipal government of New York is
more than the expense of the United
States government before the Mexican
war. For less than the income of New
York city we supported an army and
navy and foreign ambassadors, paid all
of our debts and put money in the
national savings bank. Not that people
we're so particularly honest then, for one
Svartwout walked off with million,
but although they had thieves then there
was not quite SO many Of them. 1t will
take about thirty millions Of dollars to
get MS through with any kind of credit,
though one-haif of it honestly admins.