The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-11-15

Mr.. John Kelly is reported in re-
cent interview at Saratoga as express
ing the opinion that General Butler will
attract q large Irish vote from Mr..
Cleveland. WHY should Irishmen vote
for General Butler? The most shame
less and uncalled-for SANDER ever made
against Irishmen and workingmen of
New York was made by Butler in his
City Hall address in 1866. The New
York Times. paper at that time
friendly to General Butler, printed .
full and no doubt accurate account of
this speech. In this report Butler Is
quoted as Saying:
MEN who are driven TO the polls like sheen
TO the shambles men who only follow where
their blind leaders lead. do not desire discus
sion for themselves. nor can they bear that
others shall hear what they themselves are
unable to comprehend. IGreat groaning.l
spirit of such men can be found anywhere
Than In the scene before US. where a few men
seek to stibe free speech by mere force OF
who by such means they hope to elect Gov
ernor, who now has the power, II he would
use It, to still By word the. mob which now
who, II he were fit to rule and had but ordi-
nary foresight, would sec that he is but follow
ing in the track of him who. from the steps of
y
derous mob of orphan-killers. One Governor
OF the State Of New York, by his completely
with the mob spirit. has doomed himself to
that infamy which in free country those
who favor mobocracy must ever incur: and
now another would-be Governor and present
Mayor: from the precincts and purlieus OF his
own once, set his hired retainers to the con-
genial work OF putting down free discussion
and free speech. (Yeils. confusion and
cheera) 1t has been said that this disturb
compliment from my feitow-cfttzens than this
spectacle on the third day before the election
Of 1854. contrssted with the state OF things on
the third day before the election OF 1862 when
l had command here. and no cur dared yelp,
but with 'bated breath and whispering hmm.
bIeness.' took on their hats as passed. TAP
auseD And warn these men that it will
take but fcw more such scenes to determine
the great National party of the Union to see
to it that there is peace in New York at every
election Is there was Tn 1861 Cheers and
''This is q miserable scene, but what should
we expect when we remember that the men
VINO are now hailooing and hooting are the
mon who in 1863 were killing negro children
men who were numbering babies when they
dare not look them in the face3 And i re-
member. too, that when the army OF the
United States came here to restore and pre-
serve order. these same baby-murderers were
the arst 70 bow their heads. Why. you poor
and New Orleans. have hung your brothers,
and II you don't learn to behave yourselves
fear shall have the chance to some day do
more such as you, with the MIME rife, and the
musket and the bayonet in their hands.
actuated by the same spirit that actuates you,
and did not finch from them. Do you sup
pose. then. that will finch before your A
man who has emelt gunp0wder can stand rum
and garlic. You think yourself the equal Of
the negro. No. no; the negro h as immcnsur-
ably your superior as Heaven Is above the hell
TO which you are going. And now,
men Of the Five Points, bullies of the bawdy.
house, burglars of the Tombs, I simply de-
ella e. as the voice of the Nation, that you arU
not at for the exercise Of the elective fran
chise."
Mr.: Kelly perhaps forgot this famous
speech when he. said General Butler
would draw large Irish vote from
Governor Cleveland. But the hun,
dreds Of workingmen, Americans and
foreigners, who were the sub. ects a
this abuse. have not forgotten it-Gk
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