Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — The Washington Riots. [ARTICLE]

The Washington Riots.

The Dqmogratic papers are making the post of the negro election riots in Washington. As taught by the example of men of lighten oblor Ouffe# threw brick-bats, brand who! knives, fired pistols, and, therefore, it is urged that Ccffee U unfit to have a vote. If classes of men are to be disfranchised for the riotous conduct of a feWjAad men connected with them, there wOfsot be many left to cast votes In this country. We remember very vividly the time when a mob ,of white Americans btnri Pennsylvania Hall in the city of Philadelphia, and destroyed certain Orphan Homes and Churches belonging to colored people. Did any one then propose to disfranchise all white men, because the rioters were of that color ? Later still, indeed as recently as 1863, some thousands of Irishmen raised a most terrific mob, which raged with awful ftiry for a number of days, making negro churches and orphan asylums the especial objects of their vengeance,lbeHidesflianging up negro men to lamp prists, whenever they could Beize them, but shall we, therefore, deprive Irishmen guiltless of that or any other crime, of their right to vote? Americans, at Alton, Illinois, killed Elijah P. Lovejoy; shall Americans, therefore, be disfranchised forever ? One would think from the horror which Democratic prints affect over the conduct of a few badly behaved colored men at Washington, that riots were never heard of in this country before the enfranchisement of the ne B ro - History tells a different Mid, however.' We deeply regret the misconduct which disgraced the elections recently at Washington, but we hold only the guilty parties responsible therefor. Let Bie guilty men be arraigneflfeti# punished according to law. > Vfl Mtfukfipare lilwdJreiders of no race or color. But we insist that a party Which attempts to make political capital Out of occurrences, the like of which have occurred, and are liable to eoeur, among all cMhtfcJjgAouriunur xfc tte."oesper»te straits In’which itwyilaced.— Tr&eßo madr