The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-06-20

Calls SWx " rOteTS was no Sue1 thlnS, out
acrowd of peaceful people from whose midst
one or two pistol shots were fred ; and into
this promscuous crowd without any sort
of effort to distinguish the guilty from the
innorent- irstead of charging on them as
against the cannon and arrcsting the guilty;
instead Of calling to the peaceful to stand
aside that the rioters insight be exposed and
dealt with-they fired BY patoons, right and
left, killing every body but the guilty one
or two who had discharged their pistols.
Ic Stch shings as, his be klir(m then every
disturbance OF the peace will bc the pretenSc
for military eree,dro.. No row in city
occurs anywhere without the firing of q pk;.
tol or two; yet the police men never dream
of considering that reason for using fire.
arms. or calling out the military but they
take the risks. rush into the crowd and seize
the man who fired. But their object is to
arrest and punish the guilty and keep the
pcace-thcy are not infatuated democrats
niiamcd with hatred of their American EI-
low citizens and anxious for an opportunity
to shoot them
We now begin to see how - unnecessary,
unprovokcd and unjustiliable,' in the Ian
guaSe of the Inquest was this numbering of
innocent pcople-dH innocent not few in.
nocent shot accidentally because mingled
with many guilty this will sometimes I'M
avoidably happen not Of half innocent and
half guilty. which has never h,ppcned any
where else in dispensing mob but all in
nocent, without the mixture. even by accident,
Of single rioter with them.
But let Us follow Capt Tyler. He himself
condemns the whole firing for he IL curefM
not to say that he ordered the marines. under
his SPECIAL command in taking the cannon,
to fire; though they did fire and he did not
punish them FOR diso5eGience Of orders. IL,
RETAINED from firing. he says. because of the
necessary great loss of life he did not
say he ordered them to fire w; h nut re.
Duke; killing an American or two would do
not much BARN, the accident was that the
victims were nearly all democrats.
But the other firing he heard and turning
r,und saw the disastrous consequences
several persons on the opposite side Of the
street in the agonies of death and many
others. to all appearances, badly wounded"
81 isnmt da,ely ran down the line and or.
der,d the men to cease firing. and not an.
other shot was fired by any oac of them"
Very well !! But how came they to fire?
Were they ordered to fire :? Were they
cautioned, or ordered not to fine? We're they
ordered to keep on firing till they were told
to stop? If not was Capt. Tyler counter.
handing the order of his subordinates Had
they ordered the firing !-or. had they stood
by sucking their thumbs while their men
tired! Why is not one word said as to the
order to fire !
1t is enough that Capt. Tyler thinks i,
important to say he ran down the line and
stopped the firirg-'o condemn it. lie did it
'mmcd,utely H., does not say the rioters
were qneled, for that would imply time
for examination. 1t was only OH the sight Of
dead and wounded men that he run to stop
the repetition. He felt it was murderom he.
cause NEEDLESS, and therefore stopped it. BIT
! why is the order to tire, or the gross inSun-
ordination of firing without orders passed
over in utter silence! Was it that men were
sent there who worM take the responsibility
of firing without orders Cor was it the or.
der that any shot was to I've returned at the
discretion Of The men ?-Or was the order
given, as tits hlicvcd to have been given. by
Mayor Magrudcr, the representative of the
President and charged by him with the re-
sponsbilily, and only obe.cd by the marines
as they were bound to obey2
1t would seem a. if the latter were the case.
The civil authorities used the military to
murder their political opponents, and by mis-
take killed their fncndS!! The military
( officers either grossly neglected their duty. or
acted without due discretion in allowing fir
ing when it was absolutely unnecessary to
accomplish the purpose for which they were
there at all; and as to the means to~be used
when they were ordered by the Mayor to in
terpose, they and not he, were the only Judges,
whether it should be by charge of bayonets:
or 10y blank cartridges for intimidation: or
by more or fewer ball cartridgcs:-th mill.
tary are alone responsible for having their
guns charged. not only with ball, but with
huckShot which by scattering mulGpies
death.
But this was not enough yet. The belief
was to he inculcated that the rioters came
from Baltimore, so. after iooding lis arms,
Capt. Tyler. at Mayor Magrnder's request,
went to the Baltimore cars. But no rowdieS
came down. How came that? The firing
was between and o'clock, and no train
went to Baltimore to warn the men not to
come down. How was it, then, that none
came! Why simply. because none designed
to come then, as no body Of rioters had come
betou, for nothing shcws that any one was in
Washington from Baltimore making any row.
The riot of the morning was, apparently. an
indigenous dlsturbance-not greater than
usually happens at democratic election pre-
cincts.
There was no other riot. ard the men shot
by the marines were all Of the City of Wash.
ington, except the two above named and Of
them only one was Baltimorean, and he was
democrat.
s. ends this bloody villainy.
Ii is n terrific illustration Of just what Gov.
ernor Ligon and his fussy Officer S were anxious
to bring on Baltimore last fall, but which the
good sense and sober second thought of the
Mayor prevented. Had Baltimore been bless.
cd with a Democratic Mayor we should nor
have been discussing just such a bloody piece
of villainy in Maryland.
1t was the same spirit which presided in
the suppression Of the recent riot on the Bal
timoIe and Ohio Railroad. beyond the limits
of the city of Baltilnore-a riot, which in the
city, where the American party are in power,
was prevented or suppressed BY the civil
power and the Mayor, without the firing even
Of pistol; but which, in the county where
the Governor and his military were out, re-
suited in the killing or woanding of innocent
persons. together with some Of the guilty.
without any cfftctual arrest or suppression of
the rioters.
This is the reckless spirit of the demo.
cratic party: mad at defeat, furious ut their
lnce IF pnwer il bo Month rnOcnrorv ~ Az,