Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-09-30
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LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.

Guns NO SUCH UtHg Hcc0cO GcNel
Democrats ruled the city Anneratio,
Of Wings and " americans" to tn
Democracy - Free and fair rotin.
achen the Democrats acre IN po,ce,'-
No liUing Opposition party IN til
South, hence the Democratic party i
epery sire'rcl mans refuge.
BALTIMORE, Sept II, 1850.
FRIEND SENTINEL: Being cabinned
cribbed and confined within this city o
monuments just now, the spirit ha
moved me to hold short talk with you
Our Town Meeting of merchants, man
ufacturers and master mechanics belong
ing to the I" American party" was helt
on Thursday evening last, and the trutl
requires me to say that it was one of the
largest gatherings | ever looked upor
in my life. Ridicule has been cast upon
it by the two newspapers of this city
which are devoted TO the support of the
powers that be, because it was not ac-
companicd with the noise and enthusi-
assn of ordinary political gatherings.
But, in my judgment, such an occasion
was no time for tumult, or exultation
beginning ard ending in noise Fifty
five years ago, when it was announced
that the British were moving up the
Bay to attack Baltimore, similar meet
ing of Baltimorcans was held, and if
there were no laughing and merrimont at
that gathering, | do not see how there
could be any at the turn out Of our peo-
plo Gil Thursday last.
If Baltimore is not now threatened by
an invading foreign foe, she is under the
dominion Of bands Of domestic ruilians
Nho have DISTINGUISHED her better citi-
ns, and made her name a by-word Of
relwoaeh in the land. For the last four
vca& aud eight elections in those four
years not loss than fifteen thousand Of
cur people have been robbed Of The right
of suffrage The dearest ightclaimed by
an American freeman s. long as Ale
DemocrA.s Of Baltimore and the five
thousand 6Lliei.cred Wings wsio have
voted with fif~u since tho advent Of
Know-nothingism, --s3ed from this
ruliianism in league with the despotic
city authorities, no movement was pro-
posed for shaking Of the evil, but when
this rufian clement iuvnded the primary
meetings Of the American party, and,
BY their violence aad iIju,fs dbfsptoa ali
their respectable aspirants and nominated
rogues and rascals for responsible po-
sitions, the american newspaper and its
circle of friends could hold in no longer
Therefore, they called the late meeting
and had the good fortune 10 find several
thousand of their political associates to
unite with them, and the ultimate result
must be their annexation to the National
Democratic party, unless hypocrisy COW
crs each one of them all over.
This great gathering of " Americans
that used to be, passed series Of reso-
buttons that confirms everything that has
thus far been said Of the rascalities
practiced by that party in Baltimore, by
their Democratic opponents. Those res
olutions profess to look to the opening Of
the polls to every legal voter, but as
they talk Of calling on Mayor Swami to
appoint two hundred Special Police in
each ward for aiding in keeping the polls
open, am afraid the Instructions will be
greater than ever in the way ofrighteous
mems getting to the polls. If Mayor
Swami had any honor or deccncy about
him, he could secure fair and peaceable
election without the aid Of one single
special policeman. Democratic Mayors
did this year after year, with police
force of less than fifty men, and the SER
vice ofnot one of that limited number,
was ever called into requisition. During
the twenty years that ended with the 4th
Of March 1853, the opposition to the
Democratic party carried ten of the cleo
tions held, and almost tied the Demo
cratic party at several others. These
facts show that the Democratic party al
ways kept the polls open to their oppo-
nents, and put to shame the charge
brought by our Americans" in justifca-
ton of the outrages perpetratcd at our
elections, that we once treated the Wings
in the same way.
As remarked by nc above, not less
than five thousand Of the Wings Of Bal
timorc who were fighting against us for
the above mentioned period Of twenty
years. are now Jealous and active coop
orators with the Democratic party Of
Baltimore in opposing the new party,
and If the managers Of the late Reform
meeting win take the stops necessary for
keeping our polls unobstructcd and driy-
ing of the hired ruiIians early ia the
morning, you will see clean and clear
Democratic majority in Baltimore Of At
least ten Housand coics Nothing can be
done, however, unless the agents APP
pointed by that grand popular dcmonstra-
ton, shall ignore ME erfsteacc Of 4bayr
,S,cana and me city authorities in the ar
rangements they are making, Every
Police officer he now has, is an obstruc-
ton to any decent mans getting 10 the
polls, and if he be allowed 70 select the
% two hundred special police" for each
ward named by the Town meeting as
necessary, there viii be that number Of
additional distractions 10 a free and fair
vote thrown in the path Of our citizens.
Tho reason why this Reform meeting is
50 opposed and denounced by the Pqtriot
and Clipper, is their conviction that the
full vote designed to be secured by shat
meeting will show an overwhelming Dem
ocratic majority. lfthcy do otoPpoae and