Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-18
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The defenders of the New Orleans rioters
are keenly alive to the difficulty. not to say
humiliation, of their task. Most of them have
given it up in confusion and despair. The
people are familiar with the facts, and have
made up their judgment against the terrible
and dastardly expedient of resorting to force
to rule public sentiment, and which resulted
in. SO ignominious failure. We can not APP
preciate the wisdom Of those few who contin-
ne to parade their own shame, by paltry at
tempts to uphold the outrageous proceedings
of blood-thirsty mob. But the Union and
American continues to wriggle and founder
with as much energy and vehemence as it did
ten days ago. We wish to avoid every APP
pearance of cruelty to irrational beings; but
with view to relieve our neighbors as far as
we can from their unfortunate alterations,
which we sincerely hope are temporary, we
ask pardon of our readers for briefly adverting
to the several articles of their yesterday Is
paper.
First then, the Union and american reiterates
that we are shifting our position. This opin-
MON is based upon the fact that we have said
that all the friends of the Independent ticket
were not members of the vigilance committee.
And yet we have said that a few sham de-
mocratic leaders got up the Independent
ticket and also the mob. If there is any in
consistency in this we are quite unable to see
It. Very good men, for instance Americans,
might be wheedled into support of the indie
pendent ticket, as was really the case, and yet
oppose the lawlessness OF the mob This was
the case with several of the newspapers OF
the city. as we have before shown.
In the next place, the Union and American
abandons the exploded pleas of disorder and
crime which pervaded the city, which has
been its only justification heretofore, and with
the Washington Union, brings forward the
fresh charge that the registration Of voters
was prevented by the American party. This
charge is sustained by the following passage
from the n. o. Bulletin:
..The old game of intimidation again
believed to be commencing. On "Wednesday
last we understand, numbers of person went to
register their name. in order to make them
selves qualified voters, and found crowd at
the Office to prevent them from gaining adj
mittance"
Here is a belief founded on a rumor, to sus-
tain a grave charge-a belief that was never
justified and rumOr that was never verified.
But we must confess that this evidence is every
whit as convincing as any they have yet fur
nished in justification of the vigilants. But
the Union and american knocks down this little
dollhouse in the first sentence after the quo
tation, by giving the number of registered
voters at IL. 900, which we must infer, are all
that the city contains!
In the last place, the Union and American
charges, on its own authority, that \
Eight thousand legal voters in the city OF
New Orleans had no voice in this election at
all. The great body Of the people rere excluded
from the polls, and the Thugs carried the day
by intimidation and fraud"
To show that this sweeping charge, which
we have never seen or heard before, is utterly
without foundation,we quote from the Courier,
one of the firmest sham democratic and bitter
~. ...i A-,--inan nanars in New Orleans, as
follows:
"As regards the election yesterday for
Mayor, Recorders, Aldermen, and Assistants
the result will be found elsewhere. Order
generally prevailed. At some of the polling
places the officers did not open their stands
at a proper hour, and there was at some
booths plentiful scarcity of Independent
tickets The Committee did not send their men 10
The polls 10 guard The avenues, anticipated but
there proved no OCCASION for this, AS EVERY ONE
WHO CHOSE TO VOTE HAD FULL OPPORTUNITY TO
GIVE FREE EXPRESSION To HIS VOICE.
Comment is unnecessary. 4.-r