Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-28
Gross Injustice.


Gross Injustice.
As usual upon the occurrence OF any rlotouS
demonstration at an election, Democratic news
papers are loud in their denunciations OF the a.
mericau party as the instigators Of the recent
riots at the municipal election in Baltimore
Without shadow of reason, and indeed with
the facts all on the other side, the villainous
Know Notlngs are numerically abused as the
sole cause OF the disturbance, and all the facts
most miserably misrepresented to suit the pur-
poses of the Democratic party. The "hocklng-
ham Register" for instance, says that the Dem
ocratic voters who had the temerlty to ap-
proach the polls, were driven of, beaten, shot
and wounded" and wishes it to be remembered
that the city Government is in the hands of A.
mericans-that Americans rule Baltimore
that here, where Americans rule inoffensive
citizens, in the exercise of rights, are shot down
and murdered in cool blood" So they were,
but the Register" knows and should have told
its readers, that these inotfensive citizens were
also American characterization police ottl-
GERS, shot down and murdered in cold blood by
Irish rufians, while engaged in the faithful dis
charge of their duties. Mayor Swami, has issued
an address in regard to the riot of Baltimore
from which it distinctly appears, that the riot
originated with the Democratic party-wth the
foreign portion of the Democratic party,-and
was confined to the Eighth ward, the only Dem
ocratlc ward in the city. Mr.. Swami says: %
"The voting went on in most of the wards
with entire exemption from confusion, until the
occurrence in the Eighth ward. 1t was here and
here alone that any serious riot occurred. The
only victims of the late riots are already known
to the public. rl .lja9 Iuac b
Four of the policemen were fired upon and
wounded by democratic crowd on the morning
preceding the election in the vicinity of the Sew
enteenth Ward House, from which q fire had
been directed against a party of citizens who
had been passing in that vicinity. sergeant
of police was fired upon in the Eighth ward and
brutally murdered in the discharge of his duty.
Another officer is now lying in precarious con-
dition from the effects of o musket ball from an
Infatuated mob of Irish in the same vicinity
Still another officer in the Eleventh ward was
wounded by party of Irish who had planned
an attack upon the polls in that quarter. ie.
with these exceptions, not single case OF
homicide or manning has been cited. The war
was directed against the police alone. No dem
ocrat was seriously injured, so far as can learn
in any part of the city, and nothing transpired
except in the Irish settlement above referred to-
beyond the usual incidents which have attended
all elections that have taken place in Baltimore
1t was awarupon the police commencing OIL
the day of election in the Eighth ward and term
mating in the. eighth ward. The absence o
Democratic voters was not compulsory as charg
ed by Democratic newspapers, but resulted from
determination before the election to take NJ
interest in the contest.
From this statement of facts it will be seer
that gross injustice is done the American party
without scruple and for party purposes. In tn,
opinion of Mayor Swami there has been fo
months past systematic effort to break dow
the city government. "There is hardly week,
says Mr.. Swan, shat murderous assaults are no
made upon her officers in all parts of the city,
The Executive has found himself without sup
port from large class who claim to believers o
law and order, and he has been left to maintain
the peace of the city as best he might, with tn
force placed at his disposal amidst the jeers ant
reproaches of those with whom it has been hi
misfortune to differ in political sentiment"
And it is precisely this same unscrupulou
party spirit that pervades the Democratic pres
outside of the City of Baltimore. american
rule Baltimore, "says the Rockingham Register,
and therefore the American party is responsible
tlo o-;,,,a, IN chat o;tx, avar
they are committed by Democrats and foreigners
Such was not the cry when Democrats ruled
Baltimore and riots just as disgraceful occurred
at the municipal elections. Democrats are no
held responsible by Democratic newspapers TO
election riots and crimes of the deepest dye per
petrated in broad daylight in the streets of N
York, because torsooth the city government o
New York is Democratic. But few days agt
man and his wife were returning home along
10th avenue, New York, having been out making
purchases. They were met by three young ruff
fans, one of whom pushed the husband into thu
gutter, and Immediately afterwards drew clasI
knife and plunged it into his breast He stag
gered few steps and fell dead at his wife's feet
The assassin escaped of course The RECORD
would be incomplete if he had been caught
Now if the Know othings of Baltimore are re-
sponsble for the murder of an American police
man by an Infatuated Irish mob, because Amer
leans rule Baltimore, Democrats are responsible
for the murder of this man because New Yorl
is governed by Democrats. M
The fact is that all the riots that have occur
red in Baltimore, both before and since the A
merican party came into power, have originated
with the Democratic party. They have Away:
fired the first shot, and when native born Amer
leans dared to defend themselves they have beer
denounced and abused by Democratic papers il
order to shift the blame from their own shoul
ders. No candid man who will enquire into the
origin of all these riots can come to any other
conclusion.
Liberal Donation.
We have neither time nor space to enumerate
the various useful articles laid upon our table,