The Americans object to resistance to the police. Sullivan, the
prize-fighter, contrived to elude the authorities in the State of Mississippi, and to conquer his opponent, Kilrain, after a three hours' battle. He then retired to Tennessee, but on the order of the Governor of that State, was arrested. He attempted to knock down the policeman who held him ; but the Superintendent held a revolver to ' his temple, and promised that if he struck the man, he should be killed on the spot, whereupon he yielded. If Sullivan had been so treated in Ireland, Parliament would have resounded with denunciations of the base, bloody, and brutal Government which refused to be resisted by force. In Tennessee, supposed to be a wild country, the Governor's popularity will be greatly increased by his resolution in enforcing the law. Yet the Government of Tennessee is more "foreign" to Irishmen than that of the United Kingdom, and Sullivan was only "struggling to be free."
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