The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-02-09
OUR LETTER FROM BRoApRBlM.

Dynamite Heroes-London to be Blown
Sky-high-The Aston Ball, The Union
Clubs Reception and the Ball of the Cir
Gle Franchise - Infelicities Among the
Brooklyn Baptists, Etc.
New YORK, January 81, 1884.
EDIDoR CHIEF:
1t is twenty years since the land was
shocked at the assassination of one of the
greatest and most noble-hearted rulers that
this country has ever known. The bitterness
of the strife passed; even those who were
opposed to him acknowledged him to be the
embodiment of justice and mercy. At that
time, we never expected to see the day when
assassination would be openly advocated as
a means of redressing wrong, or that those
who advocated it would be tolerated in any
civilized community. Yet here in New
York and in Brooklyn, meetings are held
every Sunday where thugs like O'Donnell
and Brady are canonized, and men who. like
Judge Denman, believe in order and in
law, are consigned to everlasting perdition.
The meeting in Brooklyn last Sunday was
notable for being addressed by Mr.. Patrick
Joyce, the manager of the United Irish
men of New York. Mr.. Joyce is very
terrible man, if one may believe him, for
he gave his hearers the assurance that be-
fore ST. Patrick's day, which is scarcely
seven weeks off, London would be blown
into smithereens, and that before the
Fourth of July Macauley's New Zealander
would be seated on a broken arch Of Lon
don bridge sketching the ruins of st. Paul.
Mr.. Joyce is patriot of the O'Donovan
Rosa school, who believes that a discreet
general should never put his precious per-
son in the post of danger. He was asso-
ciated some months ago with another pa
triot like himself by the name of McDer-
mott. It appears that McDermott got a
good chance to sell out, and he did what
thousands of patriots have done before
him, he bulled the market, and when stocks
were up he sold out. Some other bulls did
not get out in time, and since then poor
McDermott has been marked man. They
caught him in a bar-room, about a year
ago, and tried to assassinate him then, but
the thug who was deputed to do the bust
ness got drunk, as usual, and instead of
numbering McDernott, he only broke a
looking-glass, wounded a personal friend
and got himself locked up. But McDer-
mott, knowing by his experience that assas-
sins, were numerous and cheap where there
was little chance of danger, got out and
was not heard of again till he turned up a
British prisoner in Liverpool, with a lot of
incendiary documents and paper of dyna-
mite in his pocket. This little ruse, how
ever, did not pull the wool over the eyes
of the New York Fenians. So, notwith-
standing the fact of his seizure and incar-
ceration by the British Lion, Mr.. McDer-
mott found it convayniant to give New York
pretty wide berth, as he has every reason
to believe that the atmosphere of this city
would not be conducive to his health. In
the course of his address Mr.. Joyce, after
consigning Judge Denman to the --,
and reducing London and Liverpool to
ashes, paid his respects to Mr.. McDermott,
denouncing him as a traitor, and giving his
hearers to understand that if that unlucky
patriot ever fell into his clutches that his
chance for taking part in the next presi-
dental election would be about as good as
Lord Cayendish's, in Faynix Park.
The patriot who succeeded Mr.. Joyce
was nitro glycerine hero, by the name of