Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-15
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eSSIs pesss e - eoant<y h<ss joinsd In sys
.suIsazs 49, a ~ City n Daltincse. and in
NJ nn sery repetahls wurk. have received
- usss elleisni I'D ffam the so-calied neutral
p6tsss u that city. Tbs Journals Published IN
- csfss north q Baltimore. sesisg that The Up
ros4aaits NJ farorable one. in which 70 depre-
- ~ pauriAly min be basisss prospects 81
sAs;r saass assassd riv.i, jsised In che hue and
- iAst Ma Zen ssised. Aad 10 the mps. deroei-
: spIs3s nlkui6sd sssry little disturbances that
eesarrsd, and sh.s hsraidea IL 10 the four winds
xrss he ssisgssph was breaghs into requis''on
n sslse 10 sshssrve their infamcns purposes. II
two fowdiss chanced % meet one Of the less re-
spectacle streets or alleys the oatAkrts OF the
city, and engage In 6sticeG--sucb ~ ore see"
hy ssssss h every city Of equal sirs on any day !"
ire week, shs whols transaction was described IN
the minutest terms; tho fancy and imagination oil
tie reporter, sdding imuensely to the circum'
stances. q. shsy really existed.
That papers In the interest Of rival markets
shoaid hare catebsd At these things, and cndeas-
orsd 10 turn thea. 10 The advantage Of their friends
n easily accounted for: but the course OF those
enewspApers whose pecuniary interests were 50
closely identified with the Prosperity OF the city in
which shsy were published. is moro difficult Of So
lutiou.
The city Of Baltimore it will be remembered
was, until the advent Of the American party,
strongly Dsmocrs.ie-nevsr having. within our
recollection. given majority for any Wing can
didasss for President or Governor. In 1910 when
the eountry was swept By the Harrison avalanche
and the State Of MARYLAND gave majority OF
some ten thousand fr tho nd hero the city Of Bal
timors gave najarisy for tic Magician Of Kinder
Hook Four ycars later. waen Clay and Polk
were The candidates. the State again went Wing
BY respectable majority, but Baltimore sill nd
hered 10 the fortunes Of Locofrcoism. and gave
largely increased majority for Polk. At the sue
eeeding Presidential election. Gems. Taylor and
Cas-. were before the people The State. as had
hssa hsr uniform habit cast its vote for tho Wing
candidate, Baltimore =, tie same time voting for
Gen. Cas-. Fosr years Later. the Sta Q went for
Piseee BY small majority, Baltimore giving him
. vote greatly exceeding any Il her torner ones.
II 10 propsr to remark here, that at the different
0ubernstorial elections, the maieri,ies given by
Baltimore for the Democratic candidates. were as
toaishingly large and in every ius,anrc with
siagle exception, her Immense vote always decided
The election in favor Of the Dem cratic candidate
although The counties Ut the State. outside Of the
city. gave respectable mAjorties Tor the different
Wing candidates In those DAYS, the cla.s If peo-
pie now % we'll known by the sobrqae,s Of Plug
Uglies, Tigers" &C., the very mention Of whose
names. now raises the virtaous Indignation of
Democrats, were all brigh, and shining lights in
tho Democratic Church, and it was to their hercu-
Lam efforts, that the continued ascendency Of
pure and unadnlterated Democracy was always
attributed There has never been period in
the history Of the city. when the Wing party
.dn not have . large majority of tho more
respectable portion of the citizens; aud We have
heard Il remarked on more than ono OCCASION, tina,
at least threefourths Of the city taxes were paid
BY Whigs while the city itself seemed to be hope.
lsssly locofoco; every Office. in its government,
from streetcleaner and scavenger 10 tho mayo,al-
~. being filled by G;sn Of the most abandoned char
aessrs; some Of them pardoned criminals and
many Of them persons who had been charged with
most Of tho crimes in the decaogae, but in conse.
quenes cfthe laxity Of Democratic jadicial officers,
and, in some instances, to the most outrigh. and
.nablushing bribery, had escaped justice.
When this state Of things existed. where were
those virtasus Democratic journalistic Did they
at that time indite any homlies Oh the "deporn-
Bile condition of their beloved oity' Dill they in
those daysof rampant rowdyisp, warn the citizens
ofother places trading with them, of the danger
attending visit to their cityi Marry time Thea
the Offices were filled by patriotic Democrats; con,
ssquently the lives and property of tho people, res
ident and visiting. were safe but so soon as some
ro~uies Of their party ehoosed to change their par
~ relations and ally themselves with the Ameri
can movement the astounding discovery was
made that the city was overrun with dasperadocs,
and il was ct the peril of life aat limb that men
and women who had spent their entire lives in the
city, could walk single square ;-aad unless the
substantial and respectable eitissns rose in their
might and crushed out Of existence the horrible
monster called Plug'Ugiy. the city was doomed !;
people frum the rural districts would refuse to
trade With IL; its streets would soon be coated
with grass its wharves rot out; and iss places of
basiness the abodes Of owls and b,ts.
In order to arrest this bideous. and much dread
Cd stsie " things call was made on the citizens
Of thisssemingly doomed place. TO meet at given
time IN Monument Square, and then and there,
eccneort such measures a. would relieve them Of
.alIsthsir troabIes and misforsune.. The meeting