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PHILADELPHIA RIOTS.
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are the remarks of the Public Ledger, “ that the Native
American party having called a public, meeting, hadia
perfect right to carry on their proceedings in peace, un-
disturbed by any persons, and that the disturbance they
met with from persons opposed to the objects of the
-meeting, was as gross an outrage as was ever perpe-
trated upon, the rights of any body of free citizens.
The citizens who composed the meeting were assembled
in the exercise of a right which is guarantied to them
‘by. the Constitution, andfit has come to a pretty pass,
.if‘,,eavailinge themselves of their constitutional rights,
they are to be assailed by others, andtheir lives sacri-'
' “(iced in the streets.
“M They were assembled by’ ‘publiccall, their object
being a perfectlylegal one, and the presumption is that
- those who were opposed to the meeting were attracted
there from some mischievous emotive. They were not
" embraced in the call’; they could ‘have had no proper
object in being present at, or in'the neighborhood of the
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meeting, and the consequences which resulted, indicate '
very plainly the folly, if not to say the wickednessvof
their designs, in going, in numbers to the ‘place. . The
presumption that mischief wasintended is confirmedby
the r conduct of a reckless set of ruffians, who, “aj few
evenings‘ before, broke up a meeting, assembled for a
similar purpose. Such conduct as this isnot to be tol-
‘erated with impunity in any country, much less in ours,
where the hand of fellowship and good feeling has al-, 'r
- V Jways been extended to the emigrant from other shores, r
and political equality so,f]il;erallyi;ofl”ered them. It is but
a poor returaz-1.1‘ortheseJhfvar,s,2il';tl3ey;<are to turn round
I and strikerat, the liberty arid rightsdfthqse who haveesoh
genero'u,sly,?giv"en them the power to dojsof’ ,:
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