Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-03-23
,c,zErrE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
Rev. Charles Kings Card.
MANASSAS, March 22i. 1915

MANASSAS, March 22d. 1876.
r. n, alitor ofthe Alerandrte Gazette:
lyu nave republlshed Ill your paper certain
,,,;,.. from the Manassas Gazette, under the
,..u,os, "Haye we auy streets" and "shal
49,, Iay rule in Manassas" D. w. Whiting
,,nt. then as editorials; they are supposed,
,,vsy.r, with his assistance, to have been
.,.,,,rn BY man better educated than him
..t propose review of the statements
,,c,aurd in the articles alluded to, in defence
yl my friends:
They are 50 writteu as to make the impTes-
.;,.r tnat the matter over which we were so
;,M,Dalt' was With retereuce to the proprie-
rnr,hlp o. certain lands in Manassas, through
vtlci, he claimed that public streets we're To-
Gated. That is not true, as he we'll knows; like
the scuttle fish, be is trying to obscure the wa
.,r> 10 enable him to escape from his pursuers.
HE first ''lndignation meeting was held while
was in Alexandria, on account OF his acrlDg
the Judas Iscariot in relation to the temper
s.c. movement to which about las the secrs-
,,rv iuforms mel nlne-tenths OF our community
A.. committed. Mayor Whiting signed our
retltlon to the L gislsture and wrote an edi-
torla in his paper iU favor OF the movement,
ami hen, secretly 10 US, wrote and signed and
advocated before tie legislative committee
..ouD, er petition 10 the interest of the Whl>key
,urty, and tor this trcachery large and en-
,iuNastic Indignation meeting, presided over
By Col. Robert Tausi was held, at which
resolutions were adopted dcnouncing his course
aat r, questlug him to resign the mayoraty.
| cpdolse this action most heartily, bu! re-
,,.y do DOT deserve any credit or blame
which may attach to IT, He tries to get
out Of tnis by the stop thief method of
attroctipg attention. to Others He is the man in
tie uud. As 10 the lauds iu que:t :tlon | pre-
sumo the Courts will be competent to de-
,crwiue | am not aware that | have express
Cd ~ op!uion except to say that Id the abseuce
OF aoy proof to the contrary Mr.. Baidwin's
drcd secured him ia the possession OF the prop
city. He however is Competent aud l pre-
.ume that he will not hesitate 10 making his.
own defence. The matter over which We were
'ndlgoant" was in reference to the manner 10
whcL Mayor Whiting treated Dir. b. ln the
prcy,uu, weeks ;s-ue OF the Manassas Gazatte
be made shameful attack on Mr.. B. for which
there was 90 adequate cause. Then he arrested
Mr. B on his OVID complaint; convicted hlm OF
opstructng public highway without proving
that there was any street located on the land
ID 1u .sliou, and that too when his ToWn Ser
peau,, had, for months, had large piles OF lum-
Der across the same route on the town side of
the railroad, so that it would have been impos-
sib, to lave reached the point of land 10 dis
rule by that route even 1t there had been
>tr, Ell there know of % person to whom l
would more readily coD6de a question OF this
character than to Judge Keith, if the facts
were all before him. and have said nothing
Whatever of an unfavorable character Of this
gentleman. My presence at the Mayors office
Wa, occasooed by Mr.. Baldwin S being called
out oi my house at about 8 o'clock at night
aud privately arrested without having an op-
poruoty to so much as lntoim me that lie was
undcr arrest. Mayor W aitings behaviour to-
ward Mr. Baldwin during the Farce" OF q
trial wa, Ia the highest degree improper, whilst
that OF Mr.. Baldwin was that of the cultured
gcutlemau as be is kDowu to be wherever he is
kuowo at all. am represented as acting IN
dsordery manner in the Court room so that l
Was Threatened with removal from the Court. :"
The facts are. while Mr.. Baldwin was speak.
ing iu his defeuce all preseUt, 50 far as could
see save Mayor Whiting and his counsel, and
awklskey seller aud a friend, chcercd him 10
moderate and good humored way, l along With
the ST. Mayor Whiting, in most i'll natured
luanncr, threatened if that was repeated be
would clear the room, and | said yes 10 an
uuIcrtouc, and in the best possible humor. and
he beloved out ''yes and you too, TO which
u,de no response. After the "tarce' was con-
GUIDED did Tot leave with "the crowd as
,'at"d by Mayor W biting, but remained behind
cO.vtrslug with lew friends, and as
was returing home met crowd oil men stand.
1Os, cJncclslug quietly on the corner opposite
tae Presbyterian Church. to whom l proposed
that W. 20 around and call on Col. ransill and
have temperance speech. The Colonel bad
been to Richmond at the request OF the lem.
pcraucc Association, and | presumed that he
would feel complimeoted by call OF this char
ac'er, and would doubtless be pleased to give
u, good speech, as be had not spoken since
bis return. He had previously retired from
the court roou and gone home.) Maoy voices,
wcvcr, responded, no let US have an lndig-
ration meetiog." said do you think 50,
aud volume of voices responded yes, and
believing this to be perfectly proper, and a
matter OF Justice to so good citizen as. Mr.;
n.owln, under the circumstances l proposed
mat all who favored such meeting, with MIR.
Whitman as chairman. or words TO this effect,
u! sly aye, and there were many who
said aye. then took the negative, aud
there was not single no" There were few,
however, perhaps three or four, who did not
vote. then offered resolution disapprov
ins and 'udrmnlng the manner in whiob the
Mayor had arrested aud treated MIR. Baldwin,
"Hereupou Mayor Whiting, without command
.ny Us to dl>perSe, or anything of the kind.
yS''ed cut, Sergeant arrest Mr.. King and bring
0'il to the Office. went back to the office
aud a ked the pleasure OF the court, whereupon
Was lntorued that he fined me $40 for going
GG ~ On the street and trying to get up riot.
ne said there were (naming large number,
'ne amount OF which am not positive) pres
e't' as respectable and Influential as myself,
S'' would swear that was trying to get up a
'ot. turned to the audience and appealed
10 them to say, If a man of them believed |
a'suded anything of the kind to raise his
''sht haud, and not single one would testify
s'itary thing against me- Mayor Whiting
a4m'ted that be was the complainant. Hs
"u.rel the SergeaD, to collect $40 nr take me
~ the lock up and started IN leave the roOlD