The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-10-03
correspondence of the American.


!, Mr. EDIT0R "A few days ago ! received your
valuable paper, the American, and assure you
was much rgratifed that you had courage ana
independence to start a paper advocating Ameri-
can principles in the Federal City.
4 hope every man protesting true American
principles in this Union will contribute his mite
towards sustaining SO important an undertaking;
for when we look, hack TO the first day OF June
last, and see how many innocent men, women, Z
and children, were wounded and murdered in
your city by order of the President of the United
States, influenced by those creatures, Mayor
Magruder and Justice Goddard, it Is time for
every man who loves his country and venerates,
his God to assist in spreading the truths Of Amer
lean principles over the Union. 1t Is the duty Of
every true American to put his shoulder to the
wheel and press on the column until it shall be
declared from one end of this Union to the other
that none but Americans shall rule American 4
III So far. as old Maryland is concerned, you can
set her down for at least ten thousand majority.
Ithas been said that Baltimore rules the State Of
Maryland, and that she is ruled by the roWdies 4
but will refer back to 1855 the first time the
Amer can party ever made fight in Maryland
they carried the State then, without the city of
Baltimore, BY over two thousand votes. In 1865,
they carried the State against all the moneyed
mnence Of the General Government, for Mr..
FILLMORE, without the city of Baltimore by 1900
votes, In 1857 they will carry the State for Col.
Hicks, for Governor, by little short Of 5000, with
out the city Of Baltimore. The American party
is stronger inMaryland than it ever was. IA 81 efa
I The Plug Uglies Of Baltimore are held up as
the raw hide and bloody bones, to scare the
people all over the country, by this Locofocc
new tangled Democracy Compare the riots,
assaults murders, and breaches of the peace since
tho American party has been in power, with the
depredations Of the same kind for the same length
Of time, under Democratic rule, and you will find
one-third more under Democratic rule in the city
OF Baltimore. 25I sa #5sNas1 h2lia aAld4 % Iiad
" There is great complaint with the Locofoco or
foreign party, that the Americans, headed by the
Plug Uglies, will not let them vote. II viii only
refer this would be the, decency party back I'd
! Wing and Democratic party in baltimore Icity,
and ask them 4if there@as not a committee regu.
larly appointed by the executive committee of the
Democratic City Convention, to be at the polls in
each ward, to whip the Wings from the polls, and
TO press off all decent men who could be intin,i
dated Oh election days I ask If there was not D
| regular committee Of Dutch and irish under pay
the year round, to swear through those foreigners
SO thatthey could get their naturalization papers
/ men that had only afew days before arrived uper
1 our soil and that the committee had never seer
before? I ask if there was not a regular com
mittee appointed of Irish and Dutch, to be at The
polls on the day of election to swear to mems age
and residence that they had never seen before
"A ask if there was not companies formed and ,paid
| by the Democracy of Baltimore, to vote in each
and every ward in the city as many times as they
| could get round ontelection day? | ask If there
was not a committee appointed to administer
drugs to voters, to keep them from the pollsa
ask if all those large inajorities given for thu
Democracy, in Democratic and Wing times, were
not given by the worst kind Of fraud and corrnp
ton? / most emphatically say, that every ques
ton asked, to be answered with truth, must b,
answered in the Affirmative / know those thing
/ to be SO. BY! #la 2U st2i1a sil.l 7hfaG 5Uiad
This Locofoco or foreign party are beat at thei
own game. If the charges be true against thu
! Americans, they are only following III the foot
steps of their illlustrious predecessors ~ 80.
The reason why the Democratic vote has faller
SO short in the city of Baltimore for the last few
years is because that party was guilty of so mncl
fraud and corruption that every decent man o
that party, If he wanted to remain decent, had :,
leave with disgust.
/ : You shall hear from me again.
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