Year: 1871

THE SURRENDER TO TIE nor


The General Order of the Chief Of Police, pub
lished in THE TRIBUNE this morning, is evil
IDENTIFY written by higher authority, and only
signed by Mr. Kclso. The mob and its friends
have ordered our amiable' Mayor to put down
| the parade of the 0rangemen, and ho has con-
sented in this roundabout way He furnishes
the rhetoric. and tho Chief Of Police has prob
ably little 70 do but to sgn his name. Mr..
Hall is not a gentleman who INDUCES
much in remorse. and may escape 1t for
his share in this days miserable buSi'
ness. But Nh KelsO has done 40 many
praiseworthy things in his administration that
we are sure he will deeply regret having
agreed to this surrender TO an anticipated
riot. The greatest city of the Republic IA on
its knees to q few thousand disOrderly for
eigners. The lesson of 1868 has evidently been
lost on them, and they have now gained a
deporable victory infinitely worse IN ITS effects
on the public peace and security than o
riot would have been, Sooner or later the
riot would have been quelled, and the
authority of the law established, in spite Of
the ominous fact that our Police, our Mayor.
and our Governor have more respect for the
mob than they have for the law. But az it ia,
by little cursing and drilling, by open
threats and swagger, the members Of the
riotous organizations have gained their point
with no expenditure of blood or muscle. The
| Mayor and the Chief of Police have saved the
rowdies the trouble of breaking the law by
doing it themselves,


We must not be misunderstood. We have
no sympathy whatever with the purpose of the
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part of wisdom nor pioprety for natives of
foreign countries who have come here to bet
ter their condition, and become patriotic citi-
zens of the Republic, to hang on 30 lin
placably to the old hates and jealOusies
and animosities of their former home.
These people and their enemies alike pretend
to be Americans; yet their annual wrangle
and squabble proves they have no adequate
conception of the privileges and duties Of cit
izenship. What does it matter to citizens Of
the United States which side whipped III a
day of civil war; two centuries ago. Oh the
banks of an Irish river2 The whole quarrel
is pitiful and ignoble.


But that does not affect the question Of The
duty of the city authorities to preserve peace
on the day of the parade. The Orange parade.
unnecessary and ill-advised as 1t is, ia not an
exceptional occurrence. II is as much entitled
to protection as The recent German parade, the
French Fair, and is much more clearly a legal
manifestation than the various Fenian dis
plays we have so often witnessed Every one
of these demonstrations excited, of course,
very bitter feelings and reflections among
those who opposed the cause they celebrated.
But who ever thought of preventing them
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brick at the banners' We can imagine the
sort of cOuntenance our Mayor would have
presented to a delegation of Frenchmen who
should have proposed to him TO prohibit the
German parade, out of regard TO their national
susceptibilities. Yet he has done a meaner and
more unlawful thing in this ease. He has
arbitrarily forced a body of citizens 70 give
up a peaceable and lawful manifestation at
the bidding of handful Of riotOus brawl-
eTs, who threaten murder and disorder if
their barbaIOus tancies are not complied with,
The only reason which could have dictated
this shameful action, is that the w-breakeis
! of Wednesday are more numerous and valua-
! Bile voting-stOck than those they propose %
attack. The last and not The least, of the
| evils we have suffered from that corrupt Ring
which is a nursery of crimes and shames, is
this enforced surrender of the honor and faiI
name of the city to a brutal mob. which now
has no check upon its arrogance and its greed


humiliatng contrast IL presented by the
tone adopted by the Irish priests aud &c


clesiastics, as compared with that which the
organs of Tammany have been compelled tC
employ. While Archbishop McCloskey sternly
commands his flock to abstain from unlawfu
interference with the 0rangemen, the paper
which do the bidding of Tweed devote
themselves to denOuncing the Orangemen
and try TO 1atter the Hibernians by
saying that if they do cOndescend to keep the
peace Oh Wednesday, it will he an incredible ex
ercise of magnanimity And the ever ready
Mayor doubtless under orders, prepares The
most extraordinary document ever issued tC
policemen, the rhetoric being beyond cOmpre
hension, and the servile respect which i
shown the intended mObsmen being too hU
initiating 10 all good citizens 20 be even an
agreeable subject of criticism 70 an enemy.


We shall be fortunate If We escape more