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(1816 To 1860) By Chas. H. Haswell Originally published 1896 |
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citizens, subsequently supported by a military force, would have been attended with. serious results. At the poll in the Sixth Ward, the Whig quarters had been invaded by a party of Democrats, and the ballot distributors were driven out. A body of special police was then formed, led by James Watson Webb, editor of the Courier and Enquirer, and the quarters were restored and defended, though at the cost of much fighting and many bodily injuries. Soon after, both parties became highly excited. Wall Street in front of the Merchants' Exchange was thronged. Webb and others addressed the crowd, and it being declared that the arsenal in Elm Street was about being stormed, the Whigs rushed there and took possession of it. Simeon Draper, who way a well-known partisan in the Whig camp, took an active and conspicuous part, and Colonel Arcularius, who was in charge of the arsenal, in his report referred to his action as that of "a man with a claret-colored coat," which designation was jocularly given to Draper for several years after. A body of Democrats, exasperated by the offensive partisanship of Mr. Webb, proposed to attack the office of the Courier and Enquirer, but Webb had very considerately provided an armed force within it, and I had borne a great number of paving-stones upon the roof to be projected upon the attacking party below. His precautions were not only very well designed, but effective.
April 8. Fulton Street from Broadway to Ryder's Alley widened.
The installation and assumption of office by the first Mayor elected by the people were held to be descry deserving of more than the usual and restricted ceremony of merely calling and shaking hands. Mr. Lawrence having provided some refreshments, the attendance was so large that it became turbulent and even destructive, rendering necessary the presence of police officers to disperse it.
Though the Democratic Mayor was elected, a Whig
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