Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-11-09
Tne sal,Imore Election Riot.

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The city of Baltimore has recently obtain
ed an unenviable notoriety as the home of the
most abandoned. reckless and blood thirsty
set of miscreants, that ever polluted the face
of the earth. They have inaugurated reigr
Of Terror in that CITY, end its condition is
now almost as deplorable as that of Paris du-
ring the French Revolution, when life, hber-
ty and property were at the absolute dispo-
sal of such wretches as Robespierro. Marat
and Dauton. The plug uglies of Baltimore
have proved themselves emineEtly worthy, as
the lowest and vllest of mankind. to wear the
mantle of the Jacobins of Paris. They rule
the city, end respectable citizens are afraid
to oppose or object to any thing they do.
of the Emperor of Russia over his subjects,
and they are not backward in exercising it.
Doubtless all of our readers recollect the
disgraceful riots which have attended all the
elections in Baltimore during the last two or
three years; in fact ever since the Know
Nothing Party attained the ascendency there
Only few months ago, several of the ring
leaders of the plug uglies were executed for
Murder. 1t was hoped at the time that these
executions would dismay the rowdies, and in
duce them to pay some respect to law and Or
der But subsequent even is have shown that
the reign of Terror was then only commen-
cling. The election on last Wednesday for
members of Congress &c., was attended with
more than the usual amount of rioting and
bloodshed. The respectable citizens of the
city discovered at an early hour, that they
could not vote without endangering their lives
Nearly all of them who attempted to exercise
the right of suffrage were driven from the
polls. and many of them were beaten and
MANNED. Sometime ago the friends of law
and order, organized under the name of Re-
formers, for the purpose of protecting them
selves and breaking down the power of the
rowdies. They soon found on last Wednes-
day, that they could not accomplish anything
and the majority Of them abandoned the une-
quail contest in dispair. The polls liz nearly
all the wards were blocked by rowdies imme-
diately after the opening of the election, and
the police, all Know Nothings, looked OIL
quietly, as though nothing remarkable was
occurring. No man who was not known to
be Know Nothing, was permitted to vote,
if the rowdies by any means fair or foul could
prevent him from SO doing. Adam B. Kyle,
Jr', one of the most respectable and iniuen-
tial Merchants in the city, and a prominent
Reformer, was shot in the temple. He died
in few hours His brother was also dan
gerously wounded. In several wards. the Re-
formers were resisted by armed men, and
number of persons seriously injured. Near
ly all the Rowdies were provided with avis,
with which they stabbed the Reformers. who
attempted to vote Firearms were freely
used in every part of the city. and in one of
the wards, the Rowd les brought swivel on
to the ground. William P. Preston Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress-, was knocked
down with billy and severely beaten
The Reformers in order to prevent further
bloodshed, finally abandoned the con test. AS
far as the expression of the voice of the peo
pie Of Baltimore was concerned, the election
was the most perfect farce that can be ina
gined, but the mangled and inanimate re-
mains OF Kyle others, show that it was also
tragedy the like of which We hope will nev-
er again be re-enacted within the limits of
the Republic.
The men who thus tramplcd under foot. law
and order. call themselves americans They
contend that 10 man born in foreign land
is fit to enjoy or exercise the rights of an
American citizen. They should learn human
ity from company of Rocky Mountain In
dians, before they undertake to set themselves
up as American patriots. They are dis
grscs to the land of their birth, but eminent
IL vorthy TO stand before the world, as the
last rsmnznt Of the once powerful Know
Nothing Party.