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


The effort made by the opposition papers in
elsewhere--to make capital out of tho death
of Quigley last Tuesday, and to connect, in
some way, that fatal affair with the principles
and influences Of the American party, renders
it necessary for US to notice the occurrence in
such way that our friends and the commu-
nifty may not be misled. The facts appear to
be that slight street brawl had occurred, and
ill-blood been reused, and that one of the par
ties, after retiring few steps, chose to relieve
himself Of his superintendent excitement by
shouting "hurrah for Magruderl" when he
was Immediately knocked down by blow from
his equally excited opponent, and he fell on the
pavement, and his head being cut by the curb
stone in the fall, he died in a few minutes.
This is simple statement of the whole CASEY
1t also appears that the deceased, Quigley,
was an Irishman, and it is alleged that his as
sailant, Essex is member of the American
party, or, as the opposition papers prefer to
call him, !" Know-No Nothing" We cannot see
what either fact has to do with the matter nor
do we know or care whether Essex voted the
American ticket or not. We would by no
means justify the ARRAY, though it is apparent
that Essex did not design to commit n homi-
eide, though such was the consequence Of his
blow. No true man, and especially no true
American, viii attempt to justify the offence,
and the perpctrator of it should receive due
punishment.
But, how the American party can be held re-
sponsibc for the occurrence, is more than we can
well understand; nor will it DO so held, except
in the minds of tho ignorant, or by those
whose professional business it is to traduce
that party and falsify Che facts in all such mat
tors as the one under consideration.
There was no such hue and cry raised by the
Democratic press when Democratic member
of Congress killed an Irishman, in this city,
short time ago, nor would that party, in the
House Of Representatives consent to any in
vestigation Of the affair. The tables, it ap-
pears, are now turned, and on the mere pre-
sumption that one of two parties, in common
street fight, had the day before voted the
American ticket the whole American party is
arraigned MS the author of the crime. Another
DemOCratlC meIBDeT VI CoHSresS COHlIIltS d
furious assault upon a member of the upper
house, and he is sustained by the entire press
of that party, though it is evident that it was
not his own fault that his blows did not also
result in the death of his victim. Surely,
these Democratic editors are strangely incon-
sistent and the natural sequence to their sort
of logic is, that tho Democrats may murder
Irishmen with impunity.
Indeed, it would not now be unreasonable to
presume that this last bloody affair was insti-
gated, IL not perpetrated, by the Democrats
themselves, for the purpose of relieving them
to some extent from the serious dilemma in
which they find themselves in the Heating
affair We have an equal right to charge this
upon them when they attempt to lay the odium
Of the last ARRAY upon the American party.
We would say to our friends abroad, that here,
where the facts are known, there is but one
opinion expressed as to the ungenerous and
even dastardly use that partisan editors are
ate npting to make of the affair, and it may be
relied upon as certain that the curses SO liber-
ally evoked upon our heads will, sooner or
later, 90 home to roost.
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