Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-06-26
The Reign Of Terror.

III IS evident that the once proud city
of Baltimore is doomed to inei1able dis
grace at the hands of Know nothingism,
which has inaugurated and will pcrpetu-
ate a reign of terror, unequalled except
in the days of Robespierro, on French
soil, unless the sober second thought Of
the masses speedily works out a civil rev.
olution The municipal authorities are
but instruments used to work out the
sins conceived in the conclayes of oath
bound assasins and to cover up the in
famous deeds Of ruflianism. Murderers
walk out of courts with the fresh stains
of human blood unwashed from their
palms, and laugh law in the face. The
city, hcraldcd wide and far for its noble
monuments, now lazarctto of vice,
where humanity shudders at the sight of
her shame. The city, once the home of
Inequalities to the stranger, which made
her renowned, now given up to the mcr-
CHESS fury of the mob Constitutional
law doomed TO scorn amid the ribald jeers
of demoniac gang, who believe only
in Plug pistols, knives and bludgeons
State laws ridden over as mcrciessly and
contemptuously as putrid garbage, Or the
blood of foreign born men. Moral law
deGled--despoiled no longer respected
if not totally forgotten. The laws Of
God and man secuted and revled, Kissed
and hooted at, and the municipal laws
prostituted to the bare use Of protecting
the miscreants who trample down all
moral and legal restraints which alone can
rescue society from dissipation.
And, not content with the violation Of
the laws in Baltimore, on a recent occq-
sion they volunteered an excursion to the
National Capital for the purpose of shoot
ing down citizens and breaking up the
elections But we rejoice that there
they found an executive officer who was
equal to the occasion, and drove them
back to their dcns. With the terrible
responsibility resting upon them of being
the direct cause Of sudden death to num-
bors Of innocent people, these pet rulers
of the Know-nothing party of Baltimore
have returned to their homes with the
unanimous curses, loud and deep of all
good men in the land upon their guilty
heads.
Removed from the scene Of the Plug
Ugly haunts as we are, we naturally in
dulgc feelings Of indignation towards
1919 Ia naaIucated, de-
moralized creatures, who rejoice in their
disgrace but is it not time, and is it not
a duty. for society to hold their teachers
and paymasters, the lords to whom the
Plugs are mere bondsmen as yet-in
time, however, 10 become the gods to
their present masters-to their full and
proper share of responsibility and odum +?
II is useless for society to cry out against
a gang Of unrcstraincd desperadoes, while
pretended aristocracy cohorts with them
for profit, while civil authorities wink Mt
their acts Of crime, and merchants drain
their Golfers to pay their arrogant de-
mands. Let the truth be fairly under
stood, and the ministers who have cor
ruptcd and degraded and paid these men
be made to suffer at the hands Of an out
ragged community Let lordng aristo-
Gratis, who glory in munificent offerings
and requests to philanthropic objects to
win bubbling fame, be taught that they
may not go down into the caverns Of these
conspirators TO bargain for political cle-
walton. Let such be taught, as they
reyel in their wealth and chceriIy quaf
their wine in open carousal with Plugs
and Blood Tubs, that there is an honest
virtue in the hearts Of tie poorer but
better classes, which will ultimately chase
them TO their proper natural positions.
Let such men be taught that 10 be Mayor
Of city, or even Senator, cannot shield
them from the Yell-nerited chastsement
which the agency they have had in the
Of one class and the disfran-
,hisement Of others honestly entitlc them
%.
Beginning with the election Of Mayor
Kinks, those rowdy gangs, now the ter
'or Of the city, fattened and fourished in
heir crimes, in cordial association with |
hose men by whom they we're pctied and
praised, fawned upon and courted, en-
outraged and protected, until the name
If Kinks had become synonymous with
and Baltimore had become in-
amous. Then We were told that the
and able. and popular and
Wealthy Swami would give the city good