M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-06-19
.sThe Reign orTerrorlv


destruction of ballot-boxes, raising of mon
ey and arms to fit out bands ofdesperadoes
10 resist the laws, and hired letter-writers
gil the land with falsehood to cover their
crimes from public view--and all carefully !
directed to the same end-the defeat of the |
Democratic party and the promotion of men |
to office who have publicly ayowed that they
prefer the dissolution Of the Union to defeat
in their Objects
A Senator in Congress gets a lampoon-
ing for insulting gray-haired old man, and
forthwith the disunionists howl forth their
denunciations against the Democracy as the
cause of the assault upon the freedom Of
speech" The whole North is excited by
the occurrence and any amount of wrath is
expended upon Democrats in general and
Brooks in particular. A prominent Demo-
crat is stabbed by Know NUthings in the
streets of Cincinnati, for expressing Demo-
cratic sentiments, and these same abolition
intensifers are silent as the grave. Buel
being "locofoco" the murderous attempt
upon his life was all right Sumner being
an aboltionist, the rattaning he received
was all wrong. Violators of the law in Kan
sas, sent out there for the purpose of crea-
ting civil war, get shot, or hurt and the
Black Republican journals never cease their
animadversions upon "Missouri Rufianism"
and the "tyranical administration !" but
when actual residents, who do not belong to
the "Northern Army" are murdered in cold
blood, these same Journals have not he man
illness to condemn the atrocity! Their
sympathies are governed altogether BY the
OK that is gored. Jim Lane, a man that
abandoned his wife in land Of strangers, a
libertine and scoundrel, they make hero
Of, while men who lead an exemplary life
and possess stainless characters, they de-
nounce as worse than the imps Of darkness.
All this, too, because the latter being DEM
ocrats, condemn the lawless acts Of the
Black Republican leaders. Why do not the
reckless intensifers preach crusade against
the Southern ruffians who, at New Orleans,
recently, murdered American citizens be-
cause they dared to attempt an exercise of
the rights of freemen! Why do they not
denounce the organized bands of Know
Nothing bullies, which have enacted scenes
of riot and bloodshed at various places in the
Union since the Kansas excitement began !
The proceedings of the Missourians were
nothing in atrocity, when compared with the
wholesale numbering of Democrats by ia
natic Know Nothings, at New Orleans,
Louisville and other places and yet Blac k
Republican Know Nothing journals passed
them by with scarcely a condemnatory re-
mark 1t may be that because man is
Democrat he is not worthy Of life and liber-
ty and from the silence Of the opposition
in regard to the above outrages, they per-
haps consider that the Know Nothings are
doing Gods service in putting Democrats
out of the way.
The New Orleans Courier contains the
following, which we commend to the Black
journals:
The REIGN OF TERROR Every day
brings out fresh particulars Of the Know
outrages at the polls on Monday. The de-
tails flow in upon US, bu. they are all alike
Democratic voters knocked down and mur-
dered officers insulted, peaceable men beat
en- and driven off, and all this by jail-birds and
professional ruffians imported from abroad
or picked up in the lowest purlieus Of the
city. What was yesterday rumor, is GER
tainty to-day what was only conjectured
on Monday, becomes day by day undoubted
facts. Somebody has hired organized bands
of ruffians to take possession of every voti ng
place and allow no Democratic vote to be
cast, except by few prominent.citizens, and
then only in few cases. Even these were
sometimes outraged. Mr.. Mcknight was
attacked and assaulted by an imported bully
from up the river, and Messrs Genois, Aveg-
no and Alpuente were hunted by gang
thirsting for their blood. No oman's life was
safe drunken crowds of brutes whose fa-
ces were unknown to our citizens, paraded |
our streets, shouting for the various Know
Nothing candidates, and Unfortunately in
sulting and beating all they met.
Our municipal authorities did nothing
The whole city was and is in state of COM
plete anarchy. Terrorism was triumphant.
It was almost certain death to q naturalized |
citizen, and serious danger to any Demo-
crat to attempt to vote. Brass knuckles
and bludgeons, with occasional aid from pis-
tolls and dirks, were uncontrolled and ON
nipotent.
With these aids the Know Kothing ticket
received majority Of the votes deposited |
in the ballot-boxes. If this farce, this
wretched burlesque of voting, be called an
election, the Know Nothings are elected.
We cannot say we envy such success
Those gentlemen who accept Office on these |
terms, accept it burdened with debt of graf |
itude to bulies, gambler, ruffians and thieves.
They take their command of this city eleva- |
ted on the shoulders of the scum ofits BROTH |
els, jails and cutters. They undertake to
govern us, to keep peace and order, and to
put down crime, while they hold their COM
missions at the gift of gangs ofhabitual out
laws and notorious criminals.
Many of our future rulers are gentlemen
of position and standing-gentlemen who
would scorn to be guilty Of any falsehood in |
private life. With what face, then, can
they accept Offices to which they have been
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