Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-12
Kkow.NornlsGIsM IN NEW oRLEAks.


The know .oIhilg insJr i M" o ieats
and Baltimore wers obts.aed y ne uiosi bloody
riots which ever drgratei tLis county. 0ae Cf
The Chi, fest causesot the general j5y al the
Il row OF kaOw notsiagism whici persaies the
land, is lourd in tie hope t. al with tn overthrow
The terrible riots which that society has inaugura
ted will lave an end. It's career, non fret 10 last,
hss teen car eer of blood, and it has its end il
murder.
Rea the following, from the New Orleans True
Della, and rejoice that the cruel monster has been
extinguished:
TIE ELECTION HERE, [N. NEw ORLEANS Our
readers in the country will require no comments
from Us on the disgraceiui proc, edngs whca char
acterized the election here when they look at the
vote cast, and observe that it Exhibits falling off
from the actual number registered of nearly one
fourth, and is, are certain, but little more. if
that, than one-hsf Of the actual election strength
of New Orleans. 1t is true that comparatively
there was less bloodshed than is usual OF late wears
that 8, the brass knuckles were more frequently,
the knife less commonly, employed upon citizens
who desired to vote the democratic ticket but the
use OF the hrst named convincing argument YVES
common, and at two thirds OF the polls Of the city,
after an early hour of the morning, no adopted CIT
izen, and but few native born, were permitted to
deposit their suffrage in favor Of Bucbausn.
The work of intimidation began early inde ed,
before day break some fifty or sixty bravoes,
mounted on horses and disguised as Indians, gal
Hoped through the ungulsded Streets brandshmg
their bowie-knives and pistols and hurang Ike
the ssvsges whose habits and manners they very
accurately initiated, for Fillmore, denouncing with
death any one who should have the hardwood to
approach the polls during the day to vote the DEM
oeratic ticket. OF course nobody expected pro-
T. lection from the police, and Eooody was disap-
pointed; they fulfilled the expectations of those
from whom they derive their authority Many
citizens Ct responsibility were driven from the
| polls and some, among others our kind heart
ed AMI generous friend Mr.. Irwin, the omnibus
proprietor, and exChief Justice Slide were bru-
tally knocked down when about to enter Maya
| zine street omnibus, after having voted.
That there should, Notwithstanding all this, on
ly be thirty.four hundred majority Tor Fillmore, is
most astonishing particularly, too, when it is borne
in mind that the inspectors, clerks and police were
notorious as know nothing partizans, and that the
ballot boxes were generally SO placed as to be in
visible to ontside spectators, who were further
more excluded from a sight of these new inqusi-
| tors by the arrangements made BY the Common
| Council to secure for their party success by any
means
We do not pretend to enter into any particular
detail of the disgusting features of this most Ie-
voting farce, it is not possible to imagine anything
more sbOminsble, iniqutous or subversive of right
decency and justice but we do say, that if this be
republicanlsm, may its end soon be witnessed.
What makes the rufianism in this city the more
offensive, is the certainty that in no event can il
inure to the benefit of the perpetrators for to sup
| pose that Fillmore could now be elected President
by the people, by either outrage free WILL is to
| saw ms
with the political affairs of these United States
really ever imagined.
| Had every legal voter qualified by registration
and had every one exercised the suffrage who haC
thus registered, and the inspectors been appointed
as they ought to have been, from both parties, we
do not hesitate to affirm that this city would have
| gone for Buchanan by over five thousand msjorlty