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    • "THE MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WORLD! "
    • FENIANISM IN THE PROVINCES.
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      January 25, 1868.] The Tomahawk. 4i] (

      January 25 , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 4 i ] (

      "The Most Shameful Sight In The World! "

      "THE MOST SHAMEFUL SIGHT IN THE WORLD ! "

      A Word About The Police. {Extractsfrom A...

      A WORD ABOUT THE POLICE . { Extractsfrom a Letter . *) I don ' t suppose you'll print this . Oh no , you ' re much too could respectable scarcel refrain y do for anything from me . that I but qan ! ' drink t If spell you , and and print God I can it , print hel ' t write p me it , , in and I red would I ink can I , and then the ink can blush for the writer . God help me !—how

      reckless reckless in gin , and and and I wretched wretched must leav I I e am am off cry ! ! Well Well ing while , , there there I drink is is still still it , strength strengt for tears h left left are li salt ghted , and up you , and can warm ' t drink , and and noisy cry , and too they , and lau the gh public and shout -house , and is laug about hter 1 is How catching my poor , and head —Good throbs Heavens —how ! I what shiver am —how I writing cold listen and wet at it the is rain ! Oh as , it what pours a ni down ght— and what splashes a dreadful on ni the ght— pave Oh - , XXI ment * ^ . XXV ! Oh V _"" Ail , IV look / V / Xk . how AA ^^ rr dull V 4 * - « J . A the \ r * -- ± \* r . li * .. * g t _ hts ** . % . * - » g * i « limmer J . 4 . ** * *«* V * . throug * . ** , * ¦ w * " *> ^ h ¦ *¦*• the *»» * T ~ r

      shiver streaming and burn shop-windows and can ! scarcel I ' m y crawl weary along and . foot And -sore here , and come I the me down police and ! Oh down , , I must and get down away until from they them leave , or me they in the will river hunt ! , , , money Away less from and them miserabl , oh , e , let and me therefore get away can from look for them nough , for t but I ' m from persecution the rain and and contempt out of . the Ah , under -liht . that Let arch me , it is sheltered towards it . At last ! , gasgcreep

      " -M- * * * * * * - little Ah . ! M this y poor is better head . is It cooler is warmer —my poor here heart , and is I can calmer think ; I'm a forgotten x \/ i & \~ r 11 , ^ 11 for xvi the l . aj . ** * moment itiv . iiv ^ ii' ^ , and uiivi can vc' ** * - ¦¦¦ rest j ., w- ' «*• . ^ Ah a . ^ . a , see hsw w that « ,. & . ¦ . &¦« . v poor vf ^^ - ^ *•

      he street stands cur , with looking his at gentle me . eyes " Com , and e doggy his shaggy , come coat and . sit See beside how me ! " With a slow , half distrustful step , he approaches me , to and be his kind eyes to ask me , mine do you in the mean plainest to pat languag me , or e do , "Do you you mean mean to curse me with an oath and lame me with a kick ? " And he lies such beside a look me of , gratitude and I pat ! him Ah , , and poor he brute licks , he my knows hand— what oh , with it is

      to be homeless—he knows what it is to live in the streets—to sleep in the parks—to grovel in the gutter 1 Poor brute , we both are outcasts—we both are persecuted—we both are starving and miserable ! He rests beside me , and I feel that I have at least one friend in the world . ******* wretched Oh , how —so my heart thoug -broken hts wander —that ; I but can I scarcel can't hel think p it ! I A 'm dull so

      dead sense of misery is all that remains to me y . But . stay—let , me try to recollect—what was it ? What was it I so wanted to sisters say ? , Ah to , pray I remember for a little , to utter mercy a protest , a little on charity behal . f of Oh my , while poor my do this brain . , The sodden cry with comes drink from and out misery of the allows depths me , from , let out me of soul the ! depths of the gutter , from out of the depths of the

      Tramping along the streets one day , I saw a picture hanging up in a shop-window . It was a dismal picture , and a horrible poor picture woman , and I with shuddered a child as in I her gazed arms upon resting it . It at represented the foot of a a tree was . homeless It was and night starving , and it . was And winter near her , and stood the a poor figure creature clothed in the dress of a policeman . He was calling upon her to move on , and by the whiteness of the skull grinning from under the

      ture policeman of Death ' s helmet ! And , I I knew with that all the artist heart had never drawn was the Death picmore appropriately clothed say , never my was Death , armed with p greater leasant terrors one . ! If Your you idea are well of the dressed police , , you I daresay have nothing , is no un to - fear from them . But say , haven ' t you at times seen sights that have made your heart bleed ? Coming home from ball-room or play house , haven ' t you stumbled upon cases of cruelty and ceived * The wit lotter h scores has of been crested altered envelopes and " ( , h- containing essed np . " The " Answers letter was to the re-Acrostic . "—A contrast 1

      tramps oppression bullied ? I and ask you hustled , haven like ' t dogs you seen or thieves poor women ? and poor ******** Wandering again from the subject—oh that I could say what I have to say—but my head throbs so , and it is so hardso Well very hard let me , to have while to think I can . what Let I me have see— to oh , the about police them , !— . hav , been hunted say down , them havent the say

      their Here I , compassion e look over yonder , and so . have by Do had you ; to see I submit a policeman ' to their money bull drinking to ying buy . some from a wretched pewter pot creature ? Well from , that many drau a ght vicious of ale push has and exempted cruel word . The charge I have to make can be summed up in a to sing bully le sentence and the . zvish The to police be bribed are corrupt I There —they , 1 can have add the nothing power to that . Heaven knows , I don ' t wish to be unjust to honest

      men men are policemen , . but but I I must must who leave leave would those those scorn word word such s s unaltered unaltered shameful . . practices I I believe heli ^ v ^ ; there th but ^ rp I say , as a body , the police are corruptible . Treat them and hunted you are down safe ; . — Have show them you ever that passed you are throug penniless h London and you streets are that by ni what ght ? I If you is true have . , you must have seen enough to know say ******* *

      me There has started —I've to done his . feet Ah and , what is listening is this ? . The He poor slouches cur beside off . I ! call again him , and back runs . away He . turns What round can , it eyes be ? me Ah wistfull ! a heavy y , listens footstep and , a and brutal now push it's . my " time Here to , you start , wh to my a' yer feet loitering . A rough here voice for ? i Move on ! " Hunted down ! Hunted down ! See how the skull grins from beneath the policeman ' s helmet !

      Fenianism In The Provinces.

      FENIANISM IN THE PROVINCES .

      Dufferton By The Sea. The Whole Of This ...

      Dufferton by the Sea . THE whole of this beautiful and salubrious town was thrown undoubtedl into the greatest y a Fenian consternation outrage . on About Friday half ni - g past ht , by seven what in was the was evening returning , our intelligent home from churchwarden , a small tea , - Mr party . J ames , at which J ohn he Smith had , been * - *¦ ^>\^ ** assisting % . % r % J w » AhJ WAJ .. * . ^ , when T V X , * . WJ .. I he 11 ^ , observed V / l ^ tJWA V W \ -4 . a « - *¦ bri I ^/ J- 1 . ght w j 11 . 1 * light XXCL 111 emanating V , illtl > ll . Ul . L i * > i from * ¦ L *¦*¦*¦

      a small hole in the wall on the north side of Prospect Terrace . cautiousl Having y d , rawn and , bending a large pocket down , - he knife discovered , he approached to his consterna the spot - tion he ing struck with a piece a at bri of the ght something dangerous flame . With which explosive the looked greatest with like his brown walking presence paper -stick of mind burn and - , succeeded in dragging a portion of the combustible out , into jumped the road , on where itand , with stamped fc the most out WW astonishing the last fcJ I vestiges courage , of \ J M he the at once con Vrf

      -JUIJIK suming / V *_* element V- * - * - * * W , » - . **** - However » . -J tnbbAAA £ T ^ , X ~* , he lost no V * time M ( , V in V > Jk g W iving V * -J the . bliV alar ,, \ J m X *~ , and the intelligent Sergeant of our Rural Police was soon on the once spot to , Bristol followed and hy the Exeter fire engine for a . reinforcement Telegraphs were of the sent con at - stabulary force , and to Birming , ham for a detachment of military . The inhabitants guarded their own homes during the special SDecial night , whilst constables constables the police were were patrolled sworn sworn in in the at at town the the . Town Town The next Hal Halll day , and and 400 a a

      message was despatched to London requesting the authorities , to send some artillery . The Town Hall and the Workhouse Infirmary will be converted into temporary barracks . No arrests have been made as yet ; but the police are watching a man who has confessed to having lighted his pipe near the spot on that very evening . Saturday night . —The military have arrived . All is quiet ; but the authorities are prepared for an . attack . The volunteers

      have removed their rifles and other arms to the Town Hall . We are expecting a battery of Armstrong guns . The public mind taken is are still calculated much ag to itated reassure , but all the loyal precautionary subjects . measures Plymouth . Our Correspondent telegraphs that a very suspicious-looking umbrella man was . seen He was walking seen to on be the observing breakwater some , with of the a vessels green very the guards closely . have All the been military strengthened are confined . Boats to , full barracks of police , and -

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 25, 1868, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25011868/page/9/