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The Orange Riot In Politics

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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Vzom the Ha York World. The parade of the Oraugpnitn was in stitutod by desperate, gunning Badicai schemers, acting likt a droirning mai who clutches ut stiMws. The.-objeot they had in -view was to aliónate thu Irisl Catholics from tlic Democratie: party. - The State of New York mu.y turn the Bcale in tho next Kresidential election and the Radicáis have evcry motive whiel can opérate upon polltséiaiis to radeem it from tho Democratie party. . They kav been attempting this ir. vain, by varioua methode, fox thu last toree years, aud their point of attack has invariably been tlit City of New York. Tbey courted ani abetted the Fenians in the huye of making inroads upon the Irish Catbolio vote They pasaed the infamous bayoneteleotion'law solely with rnferenoe to this city as a meftns ot diminishing its Dbnwonbi majority. The measure was originatec by New York Congrcssmen, and it wai oonfeased in all the debates that it was aimed chiefly at the state of things in thi city. It was only in this city that any elabórate preparations were made to pa it in execution. We allude to these facts ouly to show what a deep stuko the lïndicals think they have in i-eoovering the State of New York, whieh they havo no hope ot' doing except by eutting dowu the Demooratio majority in this city. All their past attempte haring failed aud the Conkling-Fenton fcud ïvndcriiif, theix prospects more deaperatü tbüñ eveí these nnscrupulous tricksters bethough them of Ijlst expedieni, Certain occurrencos a year ago had disolooed to then the sttote of feoling between the Orungemen and tho Catholios, and they urn n adv to use this fiilminatiTig nitro-glyeerine to. explode and shatter tho Deinocratio panty. An Orange procession, a: all hazaid and all risks, was the basis i this infernal device. A widospread bloody riot was a trivial thing in tlieir ostinuition if tliey could thoreby turn the Irish Ciitholits agaiost the Democratie party. By alicimting tht-m thoy hopee to overthrow the Democratie uscendancj in tho State If the Orangemen parad (so they reasoned) the city uuthoiitics il. be oompelled to protet them ; and m thes old hostUitÏM of ncarly two ccTituries standing are irn n. ssible, the riol bich is certain to onsue will oompel the Democratie authoritieato-dioat down and exaspérate the Irish Catholies who fono 8) important an clement of tlwir party strength. ïhe Radicáis fupposed this wa.s an oft'ence Avhich the Irish Catholies would never forgive, and that thus ihey would bc able to separate tliem from the Democratie party. The Radicáis intendcd to nso the Orangemen as a cat's ]■ to pull their chestnuts out of the tin'. They cared nothinc tbr the freedom of parades ; their only purpoeú TTas to cause Irigh Catholicf to be shot in the sírcete by the Demorratic authorities, and so exaspérate the Catholics agaidat the Democratie party. , Whatevrr mnv be thought of tho action of Mayor Hall or Goveraor Hoitnmn, it is evident that the design of the 1! :ulioals has been foiled. There are several unsettled personal questions connecttd with the late disturbantes; but no political questions. Mayor Hall aooepts, and must bear, whether he accepts it or not, the responsibility whieh fnirly belongs to hini ; but Mayor Hall is not the Democratie party. The proclamation of Ghjvernor Boffman and Grovemor Etandolph sliield the party from the kind of attacks whieh tho Eadicals meditated last Tuesday, and the order of Superintendent Kelso sjnkes their original battery. Tliey havo succeeded neither in shakiiig the attachnu ut oftholiish Catholios to thé Democratie party nor in poisoninir t minds of the rural Democracy. The Catholics will bc more devoted than ever to the city government ; and the rural Demócrata, both of New York and New Jersey, will stand flrmlyby their Democratie Gkrtetno The ttadioal plotters have succecded in causing a riot and bloodshed by abetting and spui'i'ing on the Orangomon; bul they have missed the party oavantago whioh they had in contemplatiuii. If Superintenaent Keiso's order had stood, they would harre made .-i great bowl in the rural disuicts. If it. huil iifvi-v lxcii israed thoy might have detoched some Trish Catholira in tliis city. Both pms liave been gpiked, and the Radica] intriguen have the Vjlood of a riot apon their NQrtg without any politioftl advantage. If the Radical politiciaiis li:nlnottnkeu up tin: cause "i' Uk; Orangcmen they ncvor woulil havo thouglit of making their deflaat, provoking parade. As the crisis approached, Orango leaders deeired t' retreat, but Oio Radical influence would not pennitit. Theae recklosa BaSioala, whr liad instigate! thc jd'oocíeion in order to make party oamtal out of it, desired. riot by whieh thcy hojju:l to proft. The riot they anooefeded in piciducing ; mt, like the apples of Sodyüi, it has novud dust and ushes in their niouths.

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