Year: 1876

The workingmen's excitement it is
hoped has run its course. Mr.. Martin
Farrell, the member Of the Council from
the Ninth Ward, has received the credit
of inaugurating the farce exhibited at
the City Hall meetings. Whether he is
justly liable to this or.not we cannot say.
But we believe he is, and that he would
have pushed the excitement to riot under
other circumstances. We have never
seen 80 vile an exhibition Of character in
our ife,and had serious consequences re-
suited, on this mischievous members
head would have rested the blame. The
laboring poor Of our city have never been
30 disgraced. Heretofore they have
gloried in the manliness of being able to
take care of themselves, and asked no
eharity-they have delighted rather in
exhibiting the traits of independent,
free American citizens, loathing with
contempt the debasing efforts of Euro
pean subjects, who, acknowledging that
they belong to the sovereign demand of
the sovereign care and bread. In this
free country every man claims to be
freeman and sovereign; and it is mean
and contemplate in the extreme to de-
mand of others that which their indus
try, care and frugality has accumulated.
1t matters not whether that accumula.
tion takes the form of municipal credit
or individual wealth


In this country every man has an
equal right TO labor and an equal right to
starve and we know no man who denies
either of these rights to Martin Farrell
and his crowd.


Had the crowd he incited been large
enough who can say that he would not
have found some hummer TO lead them
to where "Big Frank" sought to secure
gold, if he cowardIy failed to take the
lead himself. Had this been attempted
that he would have met a worse fate
than "Big Frank" none doubt.


Farrell is no fool, he acted the part
of the demagogue more fully than any
man we ever saw and combinds as
fully the elements of Danton, without
his eloquence and his learning, as any
man ever did in this country;-as Mol
ly Mcguire" he is we'll qualified to ex-
cell.


We were at first inclined to censure
the course Of the Council; but perhaps
it is well that they gave Farrell just
enough license to let him run to the end
Of his hne, This man new stands alone
in his threats and desire to set all law
aside and spend the peoples money.
He would mortgage their property and
feed and clothe bummers, if thereby he
could get their votes for himself


This is more than the thief attempts ::
for he only takes what he can lay his
hands upon, and expects to incur the
penalty for taking that. But here is an
attempt 20 take and sell and get Office
thereby as reward for plundering.


And this the character and the man
who has raised his voice in denunciation
of the Governor, the laws, the Council
and all the newspapers of the city. He
is beautiful object to point the finger
at an honest man. Stripped of all the
surrounding au1iliaries that tend TO hide
his wickedness the native roguery stand.
out as clearly as the MONDAY sun. He
scorned party allegence-despised the
color-line-had no creed, and intimatet
to the crowd, thatthey, the Council, ,wer,
their enemies.-and said, II an you
friend;" and so now Council very iustl,
moves on its lawful course, leaving al
enemy of law, religion, and civilization
all alone in his glory. An Ishmnlite in
deed