The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-18
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY MORNING, nov. IS, 1905.
Tue LATE ELECTION RIOTS IN LOUISVILLE, NEW
ORLEANS, AND BALTIMORE.


ORLEANS, AND BALTIMORE.
The very amusing intelligent snd instructive Paris cor
respondent of that excellent paper the New York Journal
OF Commerce, says in late letter
ssThe Mo.sesy Of this morning IL dumb TO politics. 1t
copies Courier des Eats U~is the details OF the
ssnguuary riots Baltimore Incalculsble injury has
the liberal throughout Europe the dis
ordsrs Of republic within the past psrticu
isry the proceedings Of the Rouse Of Representatives.
II 10 with ali our hearts give aid TO the creua
ton Of this solemn and impressive warning Setting
aside the fragrant enorm of these exhibitions of brutal
violence and savage erocy and the violations of every
telling Of humanity they exhibit these ouages calcu
ted beyond all other causeswith the exception of one
10 waich shall presently refero infct disgrace on
me people of the United States their institutions and their
government and, in fact, liberty itself They
crbed by the advocates Of dcspotsm abroad the natural
inevitable operation Of these institutions and that
government and these occasional of few hun
dred lcentous rabbe placed TO the account of their free
dom from the wholesome restraints Of armed police
backed by military force However in their
renee and distant in the of action they placed
before the world ordinary characteristics of the whole
people, and at this moment there is doubt that great
portion of the reading inhabitants of Eure fully believe
there safety OF life property in the United States
and that the great republic Of the West perpetual
Whirlpool of anarchy, seaition, and blood Thus these
brutal excesses Of few turbulent rowdies melted and
probably paid by knot Of desperate demagogues reflect
indelible disgrace entire communicating, on
whole peoplejust the delinquency of one member Of
fAmily is shared by all his kindred Still worse posi-
behe great general interests of freedom placed in
imminent jeopardy Liberty instead being goddess
Of universal doatry at whose shrine all animated nature
pays homage is metamorphosed into furious demon,
banqueting on blood and rapn in contemplating whose
malignant aspect the people OF Europe almost rrest
bly, impelled to seek in the dead calm Of desposm a
refuge from the evercha6ng waves of the ocean of lib
erty. r......... ....-.
Nor it be denied that there some reason for in
volvng communities least in this indiscrminate con-
demnaon when it is that measures are taken b,
magistrates chosen by the people for the of their
lives and property either to prevent punish these
hoswhen it that those whose position and whose
duty To watch the public peace and saftytha,
mayors magistrates and police officers though previously
forewarned Of what coming either in their
homes or stood quietly looking perhaps secretly
Ing and encouraging the perpetrators while setting fire
houses bunting women and children into the secret
Of their homes and numbering their Cor
exercsng endeavong exercise one Of their most
cious rights when we see all this and that so far as is
known, efforts made to discover and brinp tbas
outlaws to condgu Punishment what are we to think
Are we not authorized to conclude that the comm,n;
where such occur and such atrocities 90 unpunb
ed Is tainted to the hearts core and that the
Of these horrible crimes secretly abetted by majority
of the people whose moral has been deadened or
destroyed by the poison of political venom
Such conclusion would scarcely be violation Of Chris
tian charity and yet nothing is unjust than to in.
volve whole people and make them responsible for ,h
excesses Of few prodigate rowdies ragamufns and M
tcal incendaries These the people nor If tho
people They hang the skirts Of society like sltbv
crescence at the tail of sheep avaing themselves of
public assemblage to indulge their rrepressble instincts
Of violence and boodshed They glory in that which
shtutes the shame and disgrace citizen of free STATE
TO them the setting fire to house is only bonfire 70 AMI
mate their reyes and the murder of fellow c;t;zon 81,
Offering up sacrifice at the shrine OF abolition and A.
higher law.
Though sufficiently numerous II would seem "a to0u
each other in counenance and merit the ps,opags ~
Mayor Kinks and other city fathers these ouawed rowde
and assassns constitute only an exceeding small no,io
Of our people in exceeding number of our cities
only three four of which have become immoraed nv
their recent exploits During whole course of no,;
cal contest Of the most exciting nature eyervvbsrs Io
throughout the length and breadth Of this majestic
lie the conflict has been carried on without the eusion q,
blood, or any Pecies Of violence beyond black eve o
occasionAlly broken head In the course of feu on,h
past there have been OF political mass meetings. q,
thousands tens of thousands assembled together in the
highest state Of popular excitement and in every pecon
OF the country These, without exception metin peace
despatched their business in peace and parted in neac
Not single outrage committed in all these vas
ssmblages They were neither inmidated bv police on
Gers nor oveawed by military force and yet thew met
ana separated ~ quietly az they came We NAV conf
oeny ask In wha. portion of Great Britain or the
nens OF Eurore would the government have dared 70
init the assembage Of such vast masses of people bo,
being watched by egons of police officers and squadron,
OF soldicrf Or II they had dared in which of ,bo
countries suoh spectacle OF order and decorum ou,a
have been exhbited7
But whether just not just to involve the whole peops
OF the United States and into national
the ercesses of few hundred or even few thousand
cendiares and assassine there can be no doubt that Tho
enlightened and ssgacious correspondent of the Journal
Commerce right when be refers to the effect nrodpoa nv
"sanguinary riots" in Boston, Louisville Cincinnati, Now
Orleans and Baltimore and especially to the nro
cscdnes Of the House of Representatives during the Las.
session More than any other cause more thar all otber
combined have they contributed 10 Disgrace ,b
national character and blast the fair fame OF liberty The
perpetrators Of these ouragcs cannot but be known