Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-11-10
From the American of Thursday.1

ton held last week:
From the American of Thursday.l
The election in this city yesterday was neither
so orderly, quiet or impartial as we had hoped
it would have proved: yet it exhibited so large
degree of these qualities in view Of the ante
cedent excitement and the fears of general riot
and bloodshed which were entertained, that we
think it matter of congratulation that SO much,
in the face of circumstances so adverse was &C.
complished. At some of the polls disorder pre-
vailed, and from many complaints were made
that naturalized citizens were not permitted to
vote. There was, however, no extensive or gen.
eral rioting, the disorder being confined to indi-
vidual fights and to occasional skirmishes be-
tween rival factions. It is greatly to be regretted
that even these should have occurred, or that
any portion of legal voters anxious to exercise
their rights, should have been excluded from the
polls.
The Mayor was prompt determined, and i'm
partial in giving to his arrangements for the
preservation of the peace all possible efficiency
Every complaint to him was responded to by
the adoption of such means as seemed best suit
ed to the emergency. Parties of police We're
sent as required to different wards, and their
influence used in restoring order and protecting
voters. Still there was much of disorder which
no police vigilance or exertion could check.
From the Clipper of Thursday.l
Our opponents now are wholly left without
excuse as to the want of an opportunity of vot-
ing; SO that if they failed to deposit their ballots
under the suspicious circumstances of yesterday,
they are certainly a pusillanimous set, unworthy
the name of American freemen. We visited
several of the polls, in person, and saw neither
"knife nor revolver" nor anything else of a
tragical character. Men voted their sentiments
without the least obstruction and all seemed in
the best of humor, though betimes, a few imper-
tinent fellows were jostled about and finally
shuf1ed off and lost in the outskirts of the crowds
surrounding the windows.
From the Sun of Friday.l
There remains little to be said on the subject
Of the late election. 1t is over, and the events
of the day have only tended to confirm the ap-
prehensions of many that the arrangements ex-
traordinary provided for the occasion were utterly
futile. We discharged duty incumbent upon
us to uphold the professed purpose of the au-
thorities and to invite and urge confidence in the
means provided to the end proposed 1t is very
true that we urged upon others the confidence
we did not feel, and paid the respect due from
apopular journal to the government under which
we live, with the full conviction that the power
or the will of that government, in it's subordi-
mates, was entirely inadequate to the occasion.
And we have in all parts of the city the MUIR
murs and complaints of dsfranchised people.
So far as Baltimore is concerned, on one side
there are the victors and the other the victims
Of an almost unqualified and overwhelming an
archy. There has been show of law and au-
thority just sufficient to add insult to injury.