Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-10-24

me Americans having desPaired,w we presume,
Of getting al opportunity soon Of ruing Aneri-
"a. are determined not to get out Of practice
and are now ruiing some few OF our principal
,i,l.s on heir most approved plan. b the Pis-
al I'd the bowie knife. The reports which
We psblished Yesterday, Of the riots in Bsiti-
no-e. are wen calculated TO sieken The hearts
of all lovers Of order and good government
The career Of Enow-Nothiagisn, in fact, in
those localities where it hss held sway, has
been a career Of blood. Burned cities and the
skeletons Of its unhappy victims ara the only
,.emeutoes it viii hand down to POsterity.
Thank Heaven its career is well nigh ran, and
is ultimate extinction will be a happy event
for those cities where it vet fingers. May it
be long before another organization 50 mon
strous and hideous shall disgrace the name OF
party In our country
The dominant party in Baltimore are no
doubt preparing for the election that IS to Gene
of there next month. Every life they have
taken. and every limb they have broken, and
every head they have battered, and every ou'-
rage they have committed, will keep away ten
or an hundred voters from the polls. Peace
able citizens are not going to vote when the
penalty is death or mutilstion. A few brave
sous wilsbe found to meet the danger, but the
majority viii think Of their wives and children
and stay at hume. It IS possible, therefore,
that these outlaws Will have the coming cleo
tion their own way. Il viii be another jubilee
FOR the Plag Uglies, a day Of rejoicing Of the
few over ehs down-troiden rights Of the many,
a time OF the triumph Of bone and muscle and
sinsw aud steel over law and order.
y The Baltimore SEa, an independent paper.
thus speaks Of this recent triumph Of the Plug
Ugliss:
This condition amounts to the positive faci
that our political states is a. THIS moment JustiJ
expressed BY the term caarchg. Out OF TN
condition there can be no legal organization
of municipal authority. We Approximate, i
we did not really attain, TO this position las
wear It's quite certain that, although TIE pres
eut Mayor and Councils OF the past year nigh
have Deen electedbv a larger majority than the
were with a legal vote, the suffrage Wa.
grossly abused on tie day Of their election, ang
somewhat more on the Presidential election
But on Wednesday last there is in The return
abundant proof that 20 election took place a
dl. Inc pulLc AtlE LrrarAs &C NAe1 ENt = Ut
Mexico OF Paris, for the sake OF form and al
exhibit Of returns; but the voices only Of thos
who hsrmouize with the dominant party hav
been heard. The opposition respond feebl.
and fearfuily, aud are tolerated only as the
decline into a miserable and abject minority
Such is the political condition Of tie people @
Baltimore. The brotherhood Of citizenship
the freedom Of opinion, the j0cund and bIsTi
Gus exhibition Of party, the open and undis
turbed discussion OF sentiment, the free, IN
trammeled act Of suffrage, all are gone. In thei
place we have c-easeless strife; the bitter, un
r~elenting hate engendered BY difference OF coun
try and religion ; the inevitable kuife and re
v0lver, as the exponent CT hostility, c~saseies
tuTbuleUce In The political arena, aRd upon a
election day disorder, riot and bioodshed, vii
an utter subvsTsion Of the rights Of The either
Even the Baltimor .fmerie5u, one Of The Of
gans Ct The Plug Uglies, is constEained tomak
the following remarks upon the recent farce c
an election.
Ths fact shat scarcely one-half Of the voter
in the city attended the polls, indicates TIA
meny orderly citizens were deferred from u
exercise Of their privilege on account Of IN
excited and Turbulent feeling that existed be
tween the factious clubs, and from an unWli
lingness 70 participate in an election m whie
they could not eountenance the means uset b
either party 70 obtain The victory. That ssh
measures will be taken, and that right speed
D., to establish a better feeling, and restore ID
purity Of the ballot-boX, must be the feTVeu
hope Of every good sitiZen.