Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-05-13

NJ ESsRS EDITORS Your paper claiming 10 DC ndepend
WI emit and its columns open to all please allow me s
them to make public tyrannous outrage attempted
on an honest and respectable class OF our cuzehs on
erday rumored about the Navy Yard that an order
had been by that the men passed
from the Yard at evening berng, their
to be searched by the watchmen The justly de
INJURED at this and unwarranabe usurpaton OF au
thority and the Commandant respectfully asked the
putaton on their honesty They informed that o
est would not object to having their baskets searched
&C. AT belrng as the men were passing from the Yard
attempt made to enforce the ORDER but the
with commendabe forbearance firmly objected to any such
outrage, but quietly in their "dsobedent
ORDERS prerng to leave the Yard and seek for work
elsewhere to be thus degraded the face of the
nifty Now this pretty state ofafars class OF indus
rious and honest citizens are without cause TO be sub
ected to humiatng and degrading order merely to sat
sy the autocratc will Of one man! Like men VINO know
their rights and Knowing dare MAINTAIN .nen, .ney re-
fused to suffer the degradaton and mantuy spurned the
insult The question is viii the men employed III the
Yard silently suffer the feelings of their companions and
feow-w skmen to be tramped onther rights as Ireemen
outraged Or will they permit them to be made the erin
gng that basey lick the hand that stikesf Let the
meet and appoint committee to wait the Secretary
Of the NAVY and represent their case and ask they
main in the Yardf they to be subject to this order
Let it not be understood that the men rebel against the
authority of the officers of the Yard or that they appeal
from the Just orders of the powers that be tar nom II:
with pleasure and aacrty all the orders carried out W
the but unreasonable and unjust an order cannot
find ready compliance with such as our Navy Yard
contains
The above written on Tuesday, and would have ap
peared in that days paper but the writer learning that the
order had been rescnded, thought it would then pub
hed only be an injury to those whose cause he had eR
poused retained 1t but learning since that the trouble
not Dead but seepeth, and that of standing
and influence have attempted not only to defend the order
and the Commandment but in ungenerous
throw the whole dscredt upon certain of the workmen
it deemed highly proper that this statement and ap
peal should appear.
1t has been stated in of the Baltimore that the
order intended for the coored hands only This
subteruge; for the gentleman who called on the Command
ant told that the order had been in existence for forty
years. and should be carried out and that he he Com
mandan had objection his own being searched
&C. Does that look like intending it for the coored men
MOI 1t after thought The citizens of the Sixth Ward
who the mechanics of the Navy Yard need eulogy
from any one, do they ask it, but it is welknowr
fact that this is the most quiet and orderly Ward IN the
city and though police efficient as that OF
other portion Of the city, yet they find but little to dc
in their business Honesty is of the leading character
stcs of this people, and the mechanics cannot be ecd II
this by similar community elsewhere. There is much
that might be said this unfortunate circumstance
but it is reserved against the day of need The citizens
this vicinity who feel themselves outraged will meet and
take firm and proper steps in this matter and in the
undertaking they have the warmest sympathes and bes
wishes of one who is NOT MECHANIC.
THURSDAY. MAY 13, 1859. imay 13-1t