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The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things Harper's Weekly "Observe the sequel now, Mr. Beecher, gospel-maker
of cant and dollars, free love and anti-Irish hatreds; and thou,
too, Jack Hoffman, whose name will live to be execrated when your |
"Should the Orangemen ever parade
in New York, let the
citizens who feel aggrieved at the
violation of our laws and institutions take whatever measures they choose into
their hands to uphold the laws, if they care anv thing about their country. As
for the Irish element, whose lives are aimed at by Orangemen, let them congregate
on the tops of houses and at windows, provided
lwith a few dozen of good hand grenades, say a couple of hundred at different
points, and all the
State militia that ever gathered together will hasten homeward as fast as their
feet can carry them. Remember, that twenty thousand militia marching through
New York streets are not equal to one hundred men situated as described. This
to be had recourse to only in the event of the Orangemen being surrounded by
police and military so deeply that they can not be reached, as on last 12th
July. After that we shall have done with Orangeism in this cit."–[From
the "Irish People," August 19th]