The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-07-31
..BLnODY MONDAY

the City Hall on the Tuesday evening preceding,
ga miserable attempt TO renew, at day not far
distant, the horrible scenes OF bloody Monday III
! Washington" There never was more orderly
aud properly conducted meeting held IN our city,
than the one alluded to by the writer Of this arti
cle and yet he unblushingly stigmatizes il as an
"attempt 10 renew the horrible scenes The faci
Ii, tina. since the preparation OF this "herriele
deed by the Mayor of Washington, nstigated by
the most unlnanly aud contemplate motive which
can animate man, there has not appeared single
truthful statement in relation TO that dark trains
| action in any Of the papers published in Washing
ton.
The Union, the States tho Star, and the lnteli
gencer, have given 10 the public false and entirely
erroneous statements--they have sought TO man
umctue public opinion. Utterly regardless of the
truth, they have represented state Of things as
existing on that day in Washington which called
for and justified the action Of the Mayor in the
premiees, when it is well known, and has been at
| tested by the oaths of good and better men than
Mayor Magruder ever was or can be, that there
was not the slightest necessity for the action which
resulted in the death of so many of our fellowciti
Gems.
The American party Of Washington, having no
means of getting the truth before the public, have
been compelled to listen to and to read all these
statements and miserable falsehoods which have
been circulated over the Union to their prejudice,
eagerly copied into Democratic papers with fresh
comments and added insult and injury, for the
reason that there not in our city single edi-
tor who possessed sufficient manliness of character
to say word in defence OF people prosecuted,
n.algned and trampled upon by the Democratic
party, unfortunately dominant in city and State.
The people Of Washington, including the friends
and relations Of the manned and murdered citi-
Gems, where anxious to have an investigation into
the matter, feeling that it was due to them men,
as fathers and brothers. to prosecute the matter to
the end that justice might be done to the memo
res Of the dead. falsely accused Of rio,ing and IN
citing to riot, and in order that punishment might
be visited upon the perpetrators Of This vanity IN
cited murder.
Upon the osths of honorable men, Witnesses of
the whole transaction, warrant was demanded
for the arrest of the author of these murders-de-
manded in vain. There was not a magistrate to
be found willing to issue the document. Some
were deferred through .fear--others were infu-
enced by party motives, and thus was an investi-
CATION frustrated
Members of tho American party have been ar
rested on charges Of riot, for words spoken in
versation, and they have been tried, pronounced
guilty, and sentenced to one years Imprisonment
in jail for rioting, Notwithstanding there was not
jOt or title of evidence upon which to convict
them of tie charge. The only evidence against
them was for aords spoken. Neither of these
parties struck blow nor melted others TO do So
One man swore that one OF these men came to the
polls at the head Of hundred men, which was
proved to be unquai6edly false. The testimony
of men known to be members of the American
party had 10 inhuence--it was cast aside, and the
testimony Of their enemies allowed to have undue
weight Verify, the times Of the bloody Jeffries
ave revived in our land, iormen, innocent of crime
rave of belonging to the American party, are pre-
Judged condemned before trial. and regardless of
evidence pronounced guilty, and sentenced 10 the
extent of the law by an anti-Anierican jury, and
Judge whose proclivities for Irish and Dutch are
so strong as to induce him, when sentencing men
cans TO take the opportunity to tell the world that
foreigner. have better right TO the enjoyment of
the elective franchise, than bona fide American
citizens
The fact is, that il has been altogether one
sided affair. We know some Democrats who ad
vised the Mayor against the use Of the Marines,
telling him that blood would inevitably be she'd
ard that there was no necessity for them, who
after the murders had been perpetrated, defended
the action which they before condemned, thus
proving that their approval was superinduced by
fear Of consequences to that party, and showing
that, 10 carry out their designs, success must be
achieved at all hazards regardless Of law, decency,
propriety, humanity-that TO insure success, " the
end justifcs the mean" however much the means
emplo eSmay conducO to the shedding of blood
the preparation Of MURDER or the suffering of hu.
manity.
We repeat, aud il has been abundantly shown,
that there no necessity for calling out the Ma
rnes In The first place, and in the second place, no
necessity for the firing after they were called cut
as has been admitted by members Of their own
party, and when the affair undergoes an impartial
investigation, IS most assuredly il will, il viii be
manifest that all the arrests which have been made,
have been for the express purpose Of giving col.
oring OF necessity 10 the action of Mayor Magru-
der, and TO boodwlnk the public abroad Who are
the men upon whose evidence before the Grand Jury,
these men have been indictedS How is il that
none Of the Democratic Empire Club OF Baltimore
were arrested2 And how is il that all who have
been arrested happen 70 be members OF the
American party and that not member Of the i'm
msculate Democracy OF Washington has been found
guilty OF an infringement Of the peace Of the city
upon election day. The whole thing s perfectly
transparent.
/ Who Fired the First Cunt