Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-11-21

The Baltimore Sun quite loses its temper
over our notice OF its sneering reference to the
Washington railroad meeting. "Impotent ma
lightly" "reck!Iss SANDERS" "ignorancs"
"twaddle," "uniruthfuIness," "indscency,"
&c, are among the explosives used in its wrath
by this assumed exponent Of respectable Jour-
nalism. In mud-fiinging Of this description
we can take no part; nor can we see what there
was IN our article to elicit such an outburst,
unless in the implied censure of the SIsa in the
following paragraph:
The Snn, with its influence in Baltimore
might, by denOun eng the outrages Of the Bal
nmore ruffaIs, have compelled the authorities
10 repress the playful disposition of these fine
young gentlemen of Baltimore to shoot patriot
soldiers, tear up railroad tracks, assassinate
passing Presidents, and pull hOmeward bound
voters through the car windows But we have
YET 10 see in the Sun one word of reproof or
censuTe Of the doings of the rowdies of that
cry. Its whole aim has been to paIliate and
behttie every occurrence of the kind, aud to
shield the perpetrators. The result IL that the
Tufhanly element Of that city. secure of b9ing
sustained by the press and authorizes. is likely
10 De the supreme power there in the future as
IN the past"
his the sun terms "a tissue of reckless and
pa'pable slanders," and adds In its I'm behalf
that ''the San is too we'll known for its repeated
rehukes to ruffianism throughout its career to
need any defence on that score Is II a
SANDER. then, that the Massachusetts soldiers
Fastening TO the defence of the Capitol were
intercepted in the streets of Baltimore aud shot
Gown like dogs by the roughs or ruffians Of that
city! Is II SANDER that railroad communica-
ton with Washington, was cut eff by the
roughs or ruffians of that city at that time, Did
the .uH ever rebUke that ruffianism, or lid that
paper consider it "rufianism"!
The Srn Intimates that the alleged plot for
q n inaf nf n
1s6l, hiss no better authority than the Chicago
detective PinkertoR. If this be so. we shall
Certainly BE- the fiji st to withdraw it from the
indictment sgaInst the roughs of Baltimore
We have no faith in PinkeIton and very little
In any of his class, belle wing that they generally
manufacture more plots than they detect. But
the understanding has certainly been that the n
formation OF such plot leading to the precau-
tons taken to pass Mr.. Lincoln safely through
Baltimore. came from more than one source.
The subsequent death Of Mr. Lincoln by assas
sination served to rivet the belief in the public
mind that there was plot for his assass nation
IN Baltimore on the occasio on of his passage
through that city to be inaugurated. But the
idea OF assassination is SO abhorent to the
american mind that we shall be glad TO b..
he'e that Mr.. Lincoln's life was never threat.
ened until the plan was conceived in the brain
OF crack Drained player.
Is the recent attack upon the Penusylvania
voters passing through Baltimore one of the
pieces of rnffianism that the Sun has so re-.
peStedly Tebuked IN its GREER As no such
Tebuke has teen seen ia the edition of the SIN
that reaches Washington. il really becomes a
matter OF some curiosity to know what acts of
me Baltimore rCughs have been deemed of suf.
heIent atrocity 10 incur the censure OF that
crime-seourging sheet. Possibly, but we should
thlnk not probably the Sun means to include
that outrage among the ISLANDERS against Balti.
more In that case we have only TO say that in the
description of that atrocious affair given bya
following well-known gentlemen, residents of
Washington, were given as corroboratiye au-
thOrIty, being on the tram ard witnessing the
outrages Of the Baltimore rougbs: = F. Brown.
late Navy Age.t; Thomas II. Plownan archI-
tect and builder, Lafayette Myers, Horace A.
Moore, and Joseph Snowden, Of General Spin
ners Burean ia the Treasury Department: and
VIM. l.. Hughes, of the Bureau of the Conn.,
troller OF the Currency. These gentIe.aen are
considered very good authority in Washington.
Al the meeting held here su DseC UentIy by pas-
sensers by that train 10 dencunce these same
outraGes, large amour: of testimony in The
shape OF afdavits was praserted, covering the
ground so entirely that we had supposed the
TACT OF such occurrences having transpired had
oeen established as conclUsively and by aim ost
as many witnesses as the .act of that other
attack by the Baltimore roughs upon the Mas
sachusetts soldiers on thai memorable 18Th of
April.