Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-11-29
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print would sanction mob law, violence and
hloodshed at the polls, if by that means
Sam could get the ascendancy. This seems
TO have been the spirit of Sam feom his in
ception-to accomplish by force what could
not be accomplished by other means. Yio-
lenoe and bloodshed have tracked his foot
steps, houses sacked ard burnt, and the
tears Of the widows and orphans lie has
made, are mementoes Of his mercy. Need
we reeur to that nigat Of horrors in Louis
vile, Kentucky, or more recently to the
murders in Baltimore, New Orleans and n.
York? In this latter city, we are Informed
by It's Recorder, that though blood ran
freely in many Of the wards of that city,
and though men now lie at tho point ef
death" scarce one of the offenders has been
arrested. This is sad picture, bat as true
as sad. And has It come to this-ave, and
come men countenance it. Yes--"Cast the
chances of a street fight, &c, against your
adversary if there be votes kept cut
let them not be your votes. The casualties
Of day of battle often determine the fate
Of the battle, . was the advice Of one Of the
orators of Sam in Baltimore, and but too
faithfully was that advice followed by the
adherents of this bigotsd man. We need net
atop to inquire who began the riot," but
we will ask who gave this advice? And
we will say farther,--that mono of this
would have happened if the Know Nothing
organization had nsver taken place. Tine
passions of the people were Kept infanled by
the course pursued by the Louisville Jour-
nal, the Baltimore Clipper, and other prints
of like character, that it seemed nothing but
blood could appease them, and they are as
much responsible fer the blood shed as The
actors in these iuhaman and brutal scenes.
II this is a sample o. Americans ruling A.
merica, the Lord deliver Us from such rule.
When, two years EGG, Sam put on his
seven-league boots and went forth conquer
ing and to conquer. he even then eynced
the malignity Of his spirit, which was great.
y increased, as he returned from each bat.
tle-deld flushed with success.
As proof of bis malignity and 7iaaieliga,
ness, we may Be permitted to Give q Lille
Of our own experience as conductor Of 5
Democratic paper, IN another pl-t Of the
State, There we received insulting letters,
(uOw for the first time L9.i2el) threatening
u with less to our subscription list, and
many did withdraw their support, for no o.
ther reason than to stife free discussion and
put down press opposed to him. lie
sought to exercise censorship over the
press, and our paper was made tie subject
Of their discussions at one Of their nightly
orgies, and our friend Cooper, Of the
Clarksburg Register, will rocollect when
his paper was brought up before this polit-
cal Sanhedrim, and these papers were sent
b OK by the score, with insulting remarks
written on the margin. These facts can be
established before any jury IN the land
The worst days of the Alien and Sedition
laws seemed to be royived--men dare not
speak Or write against Sam without being
put under his ban. Here WIS another sam
pie Of americans ruling America.
It would be instructive and amusing, did
space allow, to give ashort history ofthe life Of
Sam, his rise, progress and rapid decline
how platform after platform was adopted
until many We're made thar it Is Row diff
fcult to tell whether there Isl platform or
not. But we will not. "I.et the dead bury
their dead" We might advert to the l25
per cent Of foreign population among the
twenty-six millions Of people in the United
States, of which Sam seemed to have sach
holy horror, that he was afraid 10 lie down
to sleep lest the Pope might come and make
slaves Of US all--but ne will not for PHYS
sake
Sam is certainly deaa-as dead as
mackerel-and the True American cannot
galvauize him into life Fl ON this time to the
"end of eternity" 1t is useless to inquire
into the causes Of his deuaiso--the peer }el-
low is dead-some say the election ofBanl;s
killed him, or the return Of 50 many broken
down political hacks to the ast Conereas kill
ed him, as then, be had everything hi, own
vay--or that he died Of the Rotts-or thai
abolitionism killed him Ne matter which,
he's dead, and all the power Of lie True 4
nerican cannot resuseitate him. He re-
eeiyed his death blow fram the ps7s he got
on Tuesday the Alb of November, and quiz
city apegged out' on tbe evening Of that
dar without SO niue. saying goodbye
Ia MS weeping friends, and il Is useless in
the American man 70 say he still lives. lie
can only live in he memory Of those be has
xronged,-while bis creed OF bigotry and
Intolerance will rema.a rerroaeh. lie has
done no good deed, bas has excited much
Of the evil passions OF the human heart and
brought our glorious Union to the brink Of
dissolution
We toe had hoped that the election being
over, we woald have little respite from
tie heat ard aaimosity Of political oam-