Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-11-22
The Mob In baltimore.

our leleglapllc column OF the doings OF the
Baltimore Mob, during the election on
yesterday, are such as TO produce feel
| ing CT disgust in the minds of all right
thinking men. The ciizrns are not only
prohibited (Iom going to the polls and vo-
ling, but are shot down in op"n daylight,
by the infamous mob Of Ping Uglies, who
are not only tolerated but sustained by the
Mayor, the police of the city and the force
Of the county Sheriff The name. of
Thomas Swan will be a synonyme for all
that is base, corrupt and wicked He has
Iostered and protected a gang of scoun-
drels, unril with unbIus hing boldness they
defy the free exercise Of tie right of suf-
frage stuff the ballot boxes and elect
men OF their own stamp -and if law abb
ding men attempt to 90 to the polls they
shoot them down like dogs This infa-
nous practice has now existed at every
election for four or FIVE years. and seems
to have got such foot-hod as to defy re-
sislance, until the name of the once good
and honorable city of Baltimore, ha, be-
come byword and reploach in all he
land. These men are outlaws. They
are public enemies, and ought to be ex-
terminated. 1t is astonishing that the re-
formers did not make ample arrangements
not onl y to defeat these scounGreIs, but in
the event OF conduct like that of yeSter-
day t" destroy them all, and then hang
he Mayor and all his infamous officials
The most terrible nnd summary remedy
will, IL is now apparent, have to be re
scr ed to and the sooner the better
St0leSnt0l. .. -
We clip the above from the "Oho
Statesman to shuw our readers how yely
indignant Democracy can be at fraud and
outrage when It's osOn party is tile q. ctim!
We IuIly agree with the Statesman" that
such scenes should be suppressed AT what
ever cost. The very existence of freedom
depends upon the purify Of the elections,
and who ever co'rupts that center Of re
publicanism, and either by fraud or violence
usurps the Offices OF the Government,
which should only be held by the free and
unlrammeed sulrages of the people. is an
snemy TO the country. And we fully in
dorse the doctrine further, that not only the
Mayor" but the "Territorial Governor, )"
the Judge" the Member of Congress, !"
the. Senator" the president. :" and all
their "in(amous officials" who aid and
abet such vllainy, ought to be made 10
stop il -"wilhout hanging" if possible,
5ut made to stop it!
But what could be more calculated to
bring tie whole theory OF elections into
contempt than the course of just such
papers as the "S!atesman?" When its
party leaders were paying from the public
treasury armies Of ruffians and assassins
to murder the people Of Kansas and stuff
the ballot boxes there, making the very
forms OF election a mockery, these very
papers upheld and applauded the treason.
and sanctioned the rewarding Of the trai-
.ors and murderers with high offices by
the President! '@ hr
The scenes in Baltimore are a burning
disgrace to the country, and their perpe
traitors ought to be brought TO copdign
punishment. But they are insignificant
compared with the outragcs in KANSAS
Democratic assassinS murdered at least a
hundred Free State men for every one that
has been killed in Baltimore, and stuffed
a thousand illegal tickets into the ballot-
boxes for every one that was put in at
Baltimore by the 'Pluy Uglies," and
were honored for their deeds.
But, inasmuch as the Democrats and
i"Plug UyIies" Of Baltimore stand ready
in brolEerly union to mob any citizen who
should attempt TO exercise his conslitu.
uonal right by voting Republican ticket
in that city. we do not feel The livelest
sympathy forone faction when lis whilom
ally treats it to its own medicine. Ii is
known to all the world that by the com
bined action Of Democrats and Americans
freedom Of speech, and the press, andthe
baIlot-box is etfectually Suppressed in
that CITY. Both these factions wou d
unite at amy moment to destroy Repub-
licau press. or murder Republican cili-
zen WHO should offer to exercise his con.
slilu,ional rights IN their midst BY what
theory, then, Is il expected that they will
not trample upon each other? They have
acted upon the bandit principle in the
suppression OF all right, and sre now reap
in. the. righteous reward in quarrel
AMONG themselves for the spoils. And
that is the Whole OF it,. .r -E ts
II is one OF the everlasting DEGREES Of
eternal justice, proved and illustrated by
the worlds whole history. that wrong
idoers cannot escape etlibuIiNe punish