Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-06-15
ORTIZ AMERICAN
"oar Flag is There "
Ellsworth. Friday, June Is 1856.
The Portland Riot.

The >feru ST excitement has in
mea>ure past, anl as The cloud. Of p:,rtl-
IAN st-,ie disappear. we arc better able
adse oil tile merits aud dement's Of that
unfortunate ati,ir. As We stated la>l
sres. We caujd not determine at that
tlale, upon wha' parties 10 athx the most
blame. Perhaps the same may be tru.
nuw, }et se think facts enough lave
trans ired 10 warrant US in the following
eonciusras
The STAR IF Maiae and Argus are
10th hostile To the Mame Law. aud
worst Of All, make their hostility a pnhti.
cal hobby. Ever since the FIST Il Nav
these Journals seem To have lost all re.
gard fur ciiaFacter. truth aud decehcy.
III their nHtifas zeal to bring the Law
i Itfo contempt. So infatuated did they
tcceule, HAT We fee! warranted IT sa, IN.
that they would not have SCRUBBED to
pabilsh what ihev kaen to be false, pro-
vlJed there was the least prospect 81 ad-
,ancins Their own creed oil eternal nega-
,,ons ami hostility. b. their daily APP
peal> to the pa;s'ans aud animal yropen-
sites oi the less informed portion OF
community, II Is evident that the mass
OF lanofant rammies aete wrought up
To such a irenzy as to honestly believe
tba, the law WAS all engine ef eppre.-
sion, and then upon false notions ii pat
rotIsm, serll, believed they uould "n
fine tor themselves and blessings for
siie state by resisting the iaa eseu by
force.
About the time matters had reached
this CRISIS. both papers announced as a
so'c,Hn trmn that Neal Dow had pur-
chased $3.50 worth Of liquor upon hi,
omn a. CONT, and that i, deserved TO De
seized aud DESTROYED Under ordinary
circumstances such a statement would
have been received y, pike and treated
accordingly bft upon cla>, OF d@grad
ed, rnn >Ni"6ltns rapisis, whose ba>ef
Passions had sil keen heated 10 tn. boli.
iar point, II operated like throw ing a
torch inlo Il powder house. Reason tor
a iliae iursook her throne, leaving the
rabbIe IL lie swayed by PASSION Men
we're no longer men; they were n" iong-
er sober: If not drunk with alcohol they
aere drunk aith rage.
Now mark The resnll-a complaint
va. III ,ae and sro1A to by three persons
setting iorll, that complaInants had "rea-
son To believe aud did believe tina, Neal
Dos kept and deposited intoxicating H.
+ qaar, Intended for SHE su violation ui
law And here let US susses, the in
cujry 10 these conlplainants Why they be-
lived that Neal Dow Intended to- sell IL
auoss N .lsiations Of law? Etey might
not answer, bu, We fancy ii their thou hts
we're knuwu they would tuu something
! Ike ,i.l,-"We donit believe II, bu, as
the warrant eannot be procured without
tihis statement. ~e shaft stick TO il - or
! their thoughts he, ~ e tei,eve because
the .slatc of Natae and Argus both say
So"
There We have 1t III a rut-sheH. No
,aher ratiouai answer eau he gwen TO
tia. question. and these papers are wei
come Ia choose between the two. Choose
ei,her, and the blame. the first step,
winch ted III the shedding Of human
blood, Is readily traced TO ,tese two pa.
pers.
Alter taking the first step in either a
90, ID or bad cause, bon little time is need
ed. especially in bad enuse to be a, full
Ia..ao. So in this ease, As the sequel
..as proved The Investigations develop
the diss.seeful fact thu, there WIS pre-.