Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-07-15

WHEREAS certain tumultuous meetings have
lately been held in this city, without any previ-
Gus knowledge on the part of this Board, at
which certain resolutions, approving the objects
of the New York Colonization Society, were
passed: Now therefore, to prevent any inference
or consequences unfavorable to the measures Of
this Society,"
Resolved, That this Board does highly disap-
prove of all such tumutuous assemblages, and
earnestly recommend to every friend Of the
cause Of Colonization to abstain from all encou
ragement of the same as well as from all parti-
cipation in proceedings subversive OF the rights
ofindividuals, or in violation of the public peace
Ordered, That the above preamble and reso-
luton be signed by the President and Secretary,
and published in the several daily newspapers
in this city.
BY order of the Board:
VIM A. DuEa, President.
Ira B. UNDERHLL, Sec'y.
From the Nep York Commercial of Saturday.
CONTINUATION OF THE RIOTS. .
Although nothing can justify the atrocious
course which few misguided individuals have
pursued for the last eighteen months, yet even
rebuke should be suspended until the present
mad tumults have fully subsidized So long as
disapprobation Of their proceedings was con.
fined to that sort of expression which is usual
at theatres on the representation OF bad play,
we did not deem ourselves called upon, as pub
lie journalists, to animadvert, nor give opinion,
one way or the other, upon the natural ebulli-
ton of feeling which was produced. But from
the first moment that serious attack was made,
on the night of Wednesday, upon the dwelling
house of Mr.. Lewis Tappan, we have raised
the voice of warning against acts OF violence
as seriously and as constantly as we did before
against the mad measures that have brought
these calamities in their train.
IL hat &c IF
stemming the torrent of popular fury when it is
once excited. We can now appeal only to the
strong arm of the law: and even that, unless
more vigorously extended than it has hitherto
been, will prove inadequate to our protection.
Day after day we are compelled to become the
chroniclers of our city's disgrace, and it is
with undssembled repugnance that we are con-
strained to give the details Of the last nights
turmoil
The assembage around the house of DR.. Cox,
to which we alluded in our P. S. at O'Clock
yesterday was completely dispersed by the OFF,
GERS sent by the police, and tranquility preserv-
ed until evening. DR.. Cox had returned to his
house in the morning, and we regret to learn
that, on his departure from it, he was rudely
followed by mob Of boys, until he found re-
fuge in the house of a parishioner and friend.
. In the course of the afternoon, the following
proclamation was issued by the Mayor:
Proclamation of Cornelius W. Laurence, May
OrOf the City OF Nep YORK..
The Mayor feels himself compelled, by a
sense of public duty, to notice the riotous con-
duct of a large number of citizens, during the
nights of the 9th and 10th inst. However re-
pugnant to the good sense of this community
are the doctrines and measures of a few mis-
guided individuals, on the subject which has
led to the existing excitement OF the public
mind, their conduct affords no justification for
popular commotion. The laws are sufficient to
hot &c of
rails, and to punish all violations of:public de-
corum, On them alone must the citizen rely;
and misjudging and imprudent men, as well as
the most temperate and discreet, must be pro-
tected in their undoubted rights of person and
property.
the Interruptions of the peace during the two
last nights; but there being reason to- appre-
bend that further disorders are contemplated
the Mayor, with the concurrence OF the Magis-
trates of the CITY, issues this Proclamation, en-
joining all good citizens to refrain from min
Cling with any crowd which may assemble in
the streets during the evening" and to use their
influence, each within his own proper sphere of
action, to prevent such congregations.
Parents Guardians and Employers, are call
ed upon to co operate in the purpose of this re-
commentator, by guarding with unusual vigi-
lance those under their control, during the con-
tinuance Of the present excitement.
The Watch, and all public officers, are here
by required to be active and prudent in the dis
charge of their duties.
The Mayor assures the community that the
Magistrates have adopted efficient measures to
maintain the right of the citizens, and to pre-
serve the public peace; and, to this end, they |
are resolved to exercise with energy the pow
ers with which they have been entrusted.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the May
orally of the City of New York, this ele.
venth day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty
four.
CORNELIUS w. LAWRENCE.
large body of the military was assembled at
the Arsenal, City Hall, the Bazaar and some
other places, at an early hour last evening, in
readiness to repair to any point to which they
might be called for the suppression OF any law
less outrage.
About nine o'clock, the first overt acts, under
the refuge of darkness, were perpetrated by an
attack upon the store of Mr.. Arthur Tappan,
in Pearl street The rioters commenced by
throwing stones at the building, and the watch
men, to the number of fifteen or twenty, are
said IN have heen lod IN Ia no fho yround