The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-06-12
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T,gilance Committee DiSbandrd-i rrca of
The Lcnders on the Chcrec Of High Treason.
NEW ORLEANS, June Sth.--(;crard Stth.
the American candidate, has 900 majority,
but many Of the principal candidates on the
same ticket are defeated.
The vigilance committee broke up their
camp last night and dsbandcd. and the city
is now quiet. The committee say they are
not disorganzed, and are ready to carry out
their principles at any moment. The muni-
cipal authorities are now engaged in arrest
ing all concerned in the vigilance movement.
and writs have been issued for tho arrest of
the leaders on the charge of high treason.
0J'A special dispatch for the Baltimore
San says:
New ORLEANS, June S. As t,lcgraphcd
you last night the election here yesterday,
contrary to general expectation, passed off
with quietness never before known, and re-
suited in the choice Of the American ticket,
headed by Gerard Stith for mayor, with but
one exception. The exception is that of }.
Il. Fabcr, American candidate for recorder in
the second district, who has been defeated
by Emile Wilt independent candidate.
The above is the last We have
from the scene of confusion in New Or
leans where by the accounts published
in our last paper, so much trouble and
bloodshed were anticipated.
1t has been a remarkable case Of poli,-
lcal scoundrelism. 1t was an attempt on
the part of the locotocos to gain the con-
troll of the city government, by rcvolu-
ton, which they were unable to do by
an election. In this they were aided by
few men of the American party, who
had been disappointed by not being NOM
mated. 1t is a matter to be noted that
all, or nearly all, the locofoco papers of
the country at once came out in favor
OF the revolutionary Vigilance Com
mlttec any thing seems to be justifaLlc
with them, if thereby locofocoism can be
placed in power. In this case, after all
the Eis-statemcnts of the telegraphic
agents, (who took the side ofthe reyolu-
tionists,) that the Vigilance Committee
was composed of all the democrats and
majority of the Americans, VIC find
that what was left of the Americans,
nevertheless carried the election.
And a pretty set of scamps that Visi-
lance Committee would have been to
have charge of any city the only blood
shed that occurred was when one portion
of them shot down a party of their
friends, thinking they were American
voters. The next thing you might cx-
poet from such crowd would be the
burning of the city by some mistake.
Their overthrow is most fortunate
thing; if they had been successful we
might soon have heard Of locofoco at
tcmpts at revolution nearer at home.
In speaking Of the " Independent " candi.
date for Mayor, the Vicksburg Sun of the
2Sht ultimo. says Major G. L. Beaurc-
gard is the independent candidate for
Mayor Of New Orleans. The Mayor would
better attend TO his business at the CUSTOM
House instead of submitting himself to be
made a tool of by squad ofhypocrltical
ncutrals, who liavnt the courage to spouse
their political principles which sustains and
keeps our Government in its pristine purity"
The New Orleans Crescent of the 3lst ulti-
mo, in republishing the above. says:
" The Sun speaks rather too strongly, and
somewha! enormously, according 10 our hum
BILE belief.--We don't think the independents
hypocritical, nor do we believe they are ac.
tuatcd by any other than good motives, al
though we hold to the opinion that they are
laborns under an extraordinary amount of
self delusion. The independents are certain
~. not using Major Beaurcgard as tool )
That is fixed, solid, immutable fact-iust
as liked, solid and certain. as that Slidcllism
ruled this State with rod of iron for the last
five or six years. and that it will rule in this
city Tor the next two years if he is elected.
If there are any tools in the case the lndc-
pcndcnts are unquestionably the tools no
matter how widely they may think other
wise at present, and many of them will
acknowledge the truth Of this remark before
the expiration of six months, if they succeed
in their now dubious and growingly doubtful
undertaking. We look upon the whole affair
as the wliIest and deepest political trick that
ever originated in the Custom House, or
in the rooms Of the Central Committee
on Exchange alley, aided, abctted and sup.
ported by Geographic dispatches from head.
quarters in Washington. If it triumphs it
will prove Slidell triumph to all practical
intents and purposes, although perhaps not
apparent on the surface and then those
Democratic anti-Slidellans who have unwit-
tingly lent their influence to the movement
will find the band of ostracisIn drawn around
them still more closely than before, which
has already amounted to something more than
exclusion from all Federal Offices Of honor and
enolument, and the Old Line Wings and others
will discover that they have enhanced the
strength Of their ancient and most dangerous
political enemy