The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-28
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

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TnE WASHINGTON AMERICAN CLUB win hold its
next meeting in the East Room of the Temperance
Hall, on + street near Ninth, on Thursday evening
next, at o'clock. We hope that the members
Of the American party from every portion Of the
city win be present
The old camp fires are burning. Come one,
i come ALL americans shall yet rule America, "or
Molly Starks soidow." This is or country.
We are for law and order, and determined that
mob-iule shall no longer triumph in our city.
TO William r. Bayley, Esp: y
If rumor is to be credited, you have already
been selected by the Locofoco party, as the can
ddate for Mayor Of this city, at the election to be
holden on the first Monday in June next; and judg-
ing from your course as a member Of the board Of
Aldermen I think that the report is well founded.
/ therefore address you.
A few short weeks since, when the States
Hose" made their murderous assault upon the
Northfrn Liberties Fire Company on Pennsylvania
avenue, and the riotous conduct of this band Of
thieves, murderers and latolcss yagabonds, was
brought t2 the notice of the city authorities, you
rose in your place, and, President Of the Board
Of Aldermen, denounced all such charges as
slanderous, and a libel upon the CITIZENSHIP
Of Washington. You, no doubt, at that time,
regarded it as inastor-stroke of policy to shield
this Imperial Guard Of the Locofoco party, and
thereby secure their votes and influence at the
approaching election. You and your political
friends have studioualy sought to impress the
public mind that all the disorder, lawlessness,
and bloodshed, were perpetrated by the members
of the American party, when you could easily
have ascertained, and the proof clear as a sum
beam, was within your reach that the prime
were fugitives from justice, and associated with
the sons of some Of our most reputable citizens md
individuals holding positions under the City and
General Governments. And this traduction was
no difficult natter for the entire Judiciary all the
municipal officers, and the SDiss cohorts, who like
leeches hang upon the public treasury, were all
interested in producing such result. Hence, in
every bar-room, restaurant, and those nan,eless
places, where these parties do most congregate,
were heard, in the midst Of their nightly orgies,
maledictions upon the Know Nothings How
frequently has night been rendered hideous, and
our peaceful citizens aroused from their slumbers,
by the discharge of firearms, and their madden
ing yells, as they rushed forth from those dens Of
nfamy, to engage in their work of robbery and of
death. Then it was that some of our leading
citizens, who were using these depraved wretches
to accomplish their political designs, would con-
graduate each other that at last they had OBJ
tanned an fundamentally that would crush out
Americansm in the metropolis of the nation, and
secure the succession in the Mayoralty, and place
in the municipal chair Of State the Democratic
Wing N Of The Second Ward.
But in this, as in many other projected schemes,
poor short-sighted mortals are unable to deter
mine what shall be the end; and how frequently
has man learned from melancholy experience that
if he sows to the wind, soon or late lie will
reap the whirlwind When these desperadoes
were employed in assaulting members Of
the American party, then they were coun-
tenanced by the concealed class before re-
ferred to- but when, like the WOLF after having first
tasted of human blood, breaking through all re.
strant, and no longer needing the counsel Of their
concealed friends they go forth to indiscriminate
warfare upon the orderlovng portion of our fellow
citizens without regard to age, sex, or condition,
then, the tune is changed. We do not now hear
the President of the Board of Aldermen, with his
stentoran voice proclaiming from bis place, that
it was SANDER and libel upon the fair FAME Of
our city, TO intimate that there was rowdyism in
our midst and his coadjutor in the Board Of
Common Council, DR.. Wallace, to the amazement
of his fellow members, danced on the floor of the
Council chamber, throwing Dan Rice far into the
shade, and holding his fellow members SPELL
bound as he poured forth bis burning eloquence
in the defence of the States Hose, is now SO mute
and qucscent, that you would suppose that he was
the veritable Rip Van Wrinkle. t-...... ~
If can judge Alright from the proceedings Of
our City Fathers ] am Of the opinion that they
see the armless hand, writing their fate upon the
wall, and that CONSERVATION has taken hold upon
them. | fully agree with them that they have
been weighed in the balance and found wanting
and that their kingdom will be given to another.
II this we're not the case why was the joint reso-
luton Offering reward for the murderers of Mi.
chacl Murphy, introduced with such flourish Of
trumpets on last Monday evening? Why tl,is
ncW-DOTns ItdlE w ny hOW ~ sVhious !" BuuIu
and protect life? Why has no joint resolution
been offered for the murdorers of D. H. Aston,
Francis NJ Deems, George McElfresh, Christian
Lindig, Ebcnezer Hughes, and others, who were
shot dead upon the 6rst Monday in June last? Is
not the life Of each one Of these individuals as
valuable as that Of Michael MarphyP You and
your fellow members dared not TO take such a
step, for you knew full well IL justice had been
meted out, that Mayor Magruder and Captain Ty-
Ter would, ere this, have suffered the penalty due
to their acts, and some Of your brother aldermen,
and "a number OF our citizens would not have
passed the fiery ordeal unscathed. a
/ an really astonished that such resolution
should have been permitted to pass without amend
ment Where was Smith, Exams, PEARSON, Clark,
and Ruff Have they also truckled at the foot
of powcrY There is one thing, however, that the
American party, though often assailed, have thus
far escaped the murderous designs of their foes.
In almost every case, the bullets designed for
them have found a Judgment in Locotoco, an
Irshman, German, or poor unofeudng negro.
AN UNTERRIrIED AMERfcAN.