Nuhou, Volume II, Number 15, 16 September 1873 — "Savages." [ARTICLE]

"Savages."

That\s what ;-ome people still eall our nativeß, but we lliinle ; in view of recent disturbances, they !jave shown themselves less Ilke Bavages than any other people in a state of riot we ever „saw, What, if we had bad sueh savages to de' e tl with as have taken part in English, French, or American riots, as foi r instance, the Lord George Gordon smashers and pillagers, the Paribian Communist murderers, the Bosto'n Convent burners, or vvorse than all, thc x\stor Plaee Opera riotcrs in New York ? Such as they were savages that would have saeked our city. We weli remember the latter aflair whieh happened about twenty-seven years ago. We were present, a!ong with a number of ot'her young men by invitatiun of Mayor Ilavemeyer, to aid by our presence a peaeeiul dramatie representatiun by Macready, who was threatened with disturbance by a u Know Nothing " American mol>, beeause it was supposed he had hissed Mr. Forrest, the American actor, in England. What a furious savage mol> that was as it rnged outside the theatre to stop the actor wilhin. They smashed in every window of the !arge opera house, and when the besicged auelienee !iad e!osed the openings with thick plank, the furious rioters battered in and splintered to atoms every plank with paving stones. They piled up the pas-sage ways between the windows and the auditoiium with mounds of stones, They sought to set fire to the building and to utterly destroy over one thousand of their fe!iow citizens inside, for no other rcason in the world but on account of their show of sympathy to the foreign aetor. And when it was apparent that this implaeable UK»b, t!iat was deaf to all authority, vvould storm and eapture the building, the military were ealled out, and called out /o ae/. We, as we dodged missiles hurled with the foree of a f\eree and bloody haie, looked out from tlie beleaguered building wieli a beating heart- upon the approaeh of the glorious Sewnth, those {t kid glove " eitizen soldiers of Ameiaen 'e great 'elty, l>y the light of stars and burning brands, we eouU see thoso e:\lm, smooth faees (for they were nll gentlemen) represeuting law and order and determination. For a tlme thev received tho stone vollies of the howlins O mob. 'fiiey werc sttuek; they were bruised; thcy bled; one of their number fell out of the ranks with his breast erushed in wit!i a stone, but still the brave eitizen regiment stood ealm and firiu, and sorrowfully unwiHing to s!ted a fellow eiti7enV blood. Put the order had to be given to tire. We inside, were ordered Sle out between lines of troops, aiul we had not yet got by, and \vcre amid a stonn of stones and infuriate eries, when volley after volley of the eltiguns strcwed'the ground wlth tlie Pallen rioters, and even drofped some of our numKn\ one at our feet s whose h\o \\ o?er us. But t!ie upliolders \jf taw at last eleaiwl tbe streets of tliese wi!dest, mavldest, most uifuriate we ever S;nv īiS alt our \*atied wanderiugs In every quarter of tho glot>e. Our rioters iu IIond!ulu late!y weio geutlemen io their aetion as eomj|x\ted wtt!i eueli uut\\isouable smgos, :