The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-11-15

A Few PLAIN WoRDs.-ft will, of course,
be no news to our citizens for us to state that
a fearful riot. involving the loss of eight or
nine lives and the wounding of some one
hundred and fifty persons. took place in our
city on the day of the Presidential election
On whom rests the guilt Of that riot, the
American or the Foreign party We will
Try and solve the question. and we merely
ask our readers to judge our conclusions by
the simple rule of common sense.
The parties to the riot were, on the one
side the Irish and other Democrats of the
Eighth ward, and on the other the Americans
of the Sixth and Seventh wards We defy
any man in the city of Baltimore to-name a
single Democrat of the Eighth ward who WAS
| injured, in the slightest degree, on that day,
w'thin the mefes and bounds fthat uard. Mark
this fact, that no Democrat was injured in
the least within the limits of the Eighth ward.
Every man among the Eighth ward rioters
who was killed or wounded received his ill.,
juries while engaGed in aggressive attacks
| upon the Americans of the Sixth and Seventh
wards, and while in the territory of the lat
ter. Does not this fact carry its own infer
cnce with it,
Now for another view of the matter. A
| large number of the Americans of the sixth
eighth ward Democrats. Did they receive
were they at when shot! They were in the
| sixth and seventh wards. Who shot them Z
| The eighth ward Democrats.
| The reader at once, from this simple state
mcnt of facts, will see the affair in its real
light The sixth and seventh, wards were IN
vadcd by hordcs of ruilanly Irish scoundrcls
and muldercrs from the eighth ward, who
had been i'll no way molcstcd by the Ameri
cans Of those waids. These malnuders shot
down and murdered Americans on their own
ground, while standing at their own polls,
and every scoundrcl among them who in turn
was made to suffer- received his deserts out
| side Of his own ward and within the limits of
those that he had invaded for purposes Of
slaughter. 10 which party attaches the guilt
Of the Iiot and bloodshcd The answer of
| course is obvious.
We have been led to make these statements
not simply for the benefit ofour own citizens,
as most Of them are cognizant of the facts
stated, but that the press at "a distance may
be enabled to properly understand the real
facts concerning this murderous raid of the
eighth ward Irish Democracy. Chpper.
RErULlsED BIT NOT VANorIsuED. Amid
the rcjolclngS of the Shum democracy. there
is a cup of bitterness that alloys all their
revelry. Maryland, i'll spite of the vxtraordi-
nary concerted cllolts made to corrupt her
citizens, and the panic of s,clonalisn, has
proved true to Am,ricanl>m and the Union,
aud as We predicted has given larger ma
iority for Fillmore and Donclson, than she
ever gave to any Presidential candidates be-
fore.
The Papal and Foreign coalition in this
State boast,d largely Of Its whig element
and pointed triumphantly to the influence,
patent wing democrats. Pratt. Pearcc Il Co.,
would bring to their ranks. The result
shows that Nlarylandcrs are governed by
principle, and are not under the influence
of any man or set of men.
Look at Anna Arundel. which gives an in
creased American majority, for AN evidence
Of Senator p ats influence" Look + Kent
for Senator Pcarcc's; at Montgomery for Hon.
| w. Lingan Gathers; at Prince George S
for Hon T. &. Bowie's: at Somerset for Jones
and Cristicld's, and finally at Baltimore city,
for the tremendous influence Of the 'Galphin
Cabinet" and Court House Clique. The sal
utary purgation of the remant OF the old line
wing party, by the detection of these corrupt
and hackneycd politicians to the sham de-
mocracy, has rendered it a fit element and
ally Of Americanism.
We are repulscd, but not vanquished; and
in the reconstruction of parties, which will
necessarily have the characteristics Of Native
and Foreign, the American party is bound
to be in the ascendant. Its national and
conservative principles lie at the very founda.
ton of our free institutions Americans
must and shall rule America; and to this
end, the naturalization laws must be cxten.
ded, else the foreign vote, without the and of
the sham democracy, will soon be powerful
enough to produce a conflict Of races.
Frederick Examiner.