Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-09
From the Baltimore American ednesday.) }.

UNIVERSAL IN DiGB Il IIOA.
The Indignation which prevailed yes
terday "a the business section of the city
among all citizens who make any claim to
fairness and honesty was more universal
and widespread than at any time since
the reign of the "awl" under Mayor
Swami. Instead of this little weapon,
pistols, bludgeons and knives were brought
into requisition, and those who refused to
be inundated by blows were taught the
virtue of lead and cold steel.-The police,
with some few honorable exceptions, ar
rested and carried to the station house the
men who were assaulted, and allowed
their assaiants to exhibit throughout the
dav what was once called 1.-The playful
spirit of freemen' to their hearts content.
Ruffianism was rampant, and it was given
the largest liberty by the Police Commits
soners to trample under foot the most sa-
cred rights of our citizens. In some Sec
tons of the city the colored voters could
only exercise the franchise at the risk of
their lives, and all who attempted to pro-
tect them were assaulted with impunity.
They were pulled out Of the lines or
knocked down, all appeals to the police
for protection being in vain. Most OF the
Reform Judges and Clerks, as well as
those democratic judges who had refused
to connive at fraud at the Mayors cleo
ton, received notes at daylight from Mr.
Marriott Boswell informing them that their
appointments had been revoked, and Mr..
NJ. A. Sisson found his successor to be one
of those "good and discreet citizens
known as lamplighters.
As Tweed exclaimed to the indignant
people of New York, we doubt not that
Messrs. Fusselbaugh, Glmor and Milroy
will this morning greet our citizens with
the same question, "Well. what are you
going to do about it p Ii their work yes
terday was effective in electing Mr.. Car
roll to the Executive chair, the question is
one that they will have to answer to the
legislature and to the whole people of the
oldlc IL tHCl nave DJ iNut, do INV sNSiiS
evident, DISTINGUISHED and reversed the
voice of the State, their names will go
down to posterity coupled with infamy
and disgrace. The blood that was shed
yesterday by the rutiians whom they coun-
tenanced and virtually encouraged in the
work of intimidation and fraud, will rest
on their skirts, causing them to be stunned
In future by all honest and respectable
people. The crime they have committed
is one that cannot be condoned, and which
must, sooner or later, bring its own pun
ishment to the Commissioners and to all
those who expect TO profit by their con-
duct. Hundreds of quiet citizens are to-
day suffering from blows, cuts and wounds,
and several are dangerously hurt, through
the criminal abuse of power Of those who
have violated their oaths to obtain po-
litical victory. Their oath Of office, TO
act justly and fairly, without personal or
political prejudice, has been disregarded
at the bidding of a mercenary ring OF des-
perate schemers, to enable them to con-
tinue to rob and plumber the people. That
there will be reckoning, and a speedy
one, we have not particle OF doubt.
The people should rise in their might
and demand justice of the courts and the
Legislature, and the exclusion from office
of those functionaries who have obtained
their positions by violence and fraud. That
they have availed themselves OF the aid of
the rufiians to reverse the voice of the peo-
pie they will not themselves dare 20 deny.
If they should be allowed to profit by their
villainy, it will be lasting disgrace to
the people of the whole State.
THE WOLDS POPULATIUN.
The United States Bureau of Statistics,
getting its information from reliable
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