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The Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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The Boston Patriot condemns a mob of Republican 'desperadoes' for violently seizing a vessel from a U.S. privateer that had detained it on suspicion of law violation, confining and maltreating the captors, as a gross breach of peace and sovereignty.
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What can the Boston friends of peace and order now say about Baltimore mobs—Salem riots, &c. When have the Republicans ever been guilty of so gross a violation of the peace and laws as that of the Boston desperadoes on Monday last? Here is a direct attack upon the sovereign authority of the United States. A privateer with a regular commission from the President, detains a vessel upon just grounds of suspicion that she had violated the laws; a mob of the peaceable Bostonians arm themselves, and wrest the vessel by force from the legal captors; confine them forcibly in the hold, and otherwise maltreat them. This is a pretty specimen truly of their regard for the sovereignty of the laws; a pretty comment upon their professions of contempt and detestation of mobs, riots, &c. After this let us hear no more about Baltimore mobs.
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Boston
Event Date
Monday Last
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legal captors confined forcibly in the hold and otherwise maltreated; vessel wrested by force from captors.
Event Details
A privateer with a regular commission from the President detained a vessel upon just grounds of suspicion that she had violated the laws. A mob of Boston desperadoes armed themselves, wrested the vessel by force from the legal captors, confined them forcibly in the hold, and otherwise maltreated them.