Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-05


ney, Pierce and all the other political saints in
the calendar of demagoguism, that "Old Buck"
is the very man, after all, whose nomination
ne has favored from first TO last Indeed, it
is by no means certain, that the phantom !"
won't claim the sole credit of bringing about
"Old Bucks" nomination, if his nomination
should be effected. AS to poor Frank Pierce,
Of New Hampshire" there will not, after the
present week, be found one man so poor as
to do him reverence"
1t is high time that the seat of government were
removed from Washington. There does not sp-
authorities Of the District, the slightest effort or
intention to enforce the laws ~ against slavehold
ing blackguards Assaults are committed with
impunity, and even in the case Of an attempt to
murder Senator in his seat, the culprit is dis
missed on giving straw bail in the sum Of FIVE hun
drsd dollars. Another BLACKBOARD shoots a waiter
at breakfast table, and the chief criminal Judge
of tho District gives an opinion that II cannos be
murder, and was probably justifable homicide, and
the prosecuting attorney walks out Of the court
house arm in arm with the murderer. An assassin
Of the name Of Brooks attempts to murder one of
the Senators of Massachusetts,, and when the other
Senator expresses, in his place, his opinion of the
character Of the act, he sends him . challenge
To send challenge in the District of Columbia Is
high crime, and to challenge q Senator is a
breach of privilege. IF there were any law or law
officers in the District, Brooks would be indicted.
--Nep York Tribune. He
The above is fair specimen of the malignity
and injustice Of the ultra Republican journals.
On that portion of it which relates to the case Of
Mr.. Herbert, we have no comment to make, mas
much as that case was decided by Judge who is
member Of the administration party. But in re-
gard to the case of Mr.. Brooks, we have few
words to say in reply to the Incorporate and I'M
founded charges 30 frequently made by the Tri-
bune, and other journals Of the Sharpe's rife
school, against one Of the most faithful and eff
cient justices Of the peace in the city.
Mr. Brooks was brought before Justice Hollings-
head, charged with an assault upon Mr.. Sumner.
Mr. Brooks admitted the charge and was held to
bail by Justice Hollingshead in the usual sum of
$500 for his appearance at court.
Mr.. Brooks was not charged in the warrant with
an attempt to take the life of Mr.. Sumner, or with
anything more than simple assault The Justice
therefore had no right to assume that he had any
such intent, or to regard him in any other light
than he would have regarded any citizen stranger
charged with the commission of similar offence
Nor had the Justice any right to make any distinc
ton between an assault committed in the Capitol
aud one committed in the streets or in hotel.
The law makes no such distinction. A breach Of
the peace is no more breach of the peace, in the
eye Of the law, because it Ia committed in the
Capitol instead of observation-disclosures it Is CON-
vr;txad ,,pop gopofnr putaod IF o;t;yov,
Congress itself may infiict what punishment it
pleases upon its own members for their violations
of order or their assaults upon their brother legs-
lators. But Justice of the Peace has no more
right to infict punishment upon Member of Con-
gres., as such, fora violation of the rules Of the
House or Senate, than he has to infict punishment
upon clergyman for violation of the rules of an
ecclesiastical council or upon physician for a vio-
lation of the rnles of medical society.
With long experience Of the character Of
Northern cities, we can assert with perfect conf
dence that breaches of the peace are Of far rarer
occurrence in Washington, than in any city of its
size north of Baltimore. The Buffalo and Albany
papers frequently contain accounts of unoffendng
citizens being knocked down in the streets by ruff
fans armed with slung shot. Who ever heard of
such an outrage in Washington There are GER
tain streets in Albany and Buffalo, where no man
is safe from assault by night There are no such
streets in Washington. On the contrary, peace
able citizen may walk unmolested from George
town to the Navy Yard in the darkest night Of the
year, without danger Of moleststion.
We might allude, in this connection to the Astor
Place riot, and other riots which occur 30 frequent
ly in New York; and to the disgracefnl and san
culinary fremen's riots which at one time we're OF
almost daily occurrence in Philadelphia; to the
terrible riot in Providence, Rhode Island, some
years ago, when several houses were destroyed by
mob, and seven or eight men shot by the mill
tary. But we forbear, with the simple remark,
that no such scenes have ever occurred in Wash
ington.
Since the assault upon Mr. Sumner, which no one
regrets more deeply than ourse for the honor of the
National Legislature, the most inHammatory appeals
have been made in Northern assemblages and in
Northern journals, to the Northern members Of
Congress, to arm themselves and prepare for e
bloody encounter with all who may attack them.
Such appeals, we must be allowed to say, come
with bad grace from men who profess to con-
denim the last resort" in cases Of personal diff
cultes Do they wish to convert the metropolis
Of the nation into another Kansas--into an arena
where sectional differences already too highly To-
mented by demsgogues on both sides Of the Poto-
mac, shall be still further exaggerated by the blood
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