An Exact and Authentic Narrative

This Federalist publication is both evidence and argument. Its depositions, letters, and survivor narratives document the violence while arranging that evidence to indict Republican government and defend the armed pressmen.

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Excerpt

On the night of the 22d June, the office and entire printing apparatus of the Federal Republican was demolished by a Mob in Baltimore, in the presence of the Mayor, the Judge of the Criminal Court, and several other Magistrates and Police Officers, whose authority was not exerted to save it, and preserve the peace of the city.

Historical wording and forms retained where stated.

Modernized reading

The pamphlet charged that a Baltimore crowd destroyed the Federal Republican office on June 22 while city officials failed to intervene.

Plain-language reading; not a substitute for quotation.

Editorial method: One complete sentence is transcribed from printed page 4. Capitalization and period spelling are retained; obvious scanner errors are not used as copy text.

Annotations

MobThe capitalized word carries the pamphlet's partisan judgment as well as describing a crowd.
Federal RepublicanThe antiwar Federalist newspaper attacked in June and again at the level of its defenders in July.

Witness and provenance

Creator: Sufferers and eyewitnesses of the Baltimore riots
Witness used: The 1812 pamphlet, printed page 4, in the digitized University of California copy.
Repository or edition: Internet Archive
Collection: University of California Libraries
Identifier: An Exact and Authentic Narrative (1812), printed p. 4
Transmission: Printed in Baltimore in 1812. The linked digitization supplies page images of the cited witness.
Rights: Public-domain printed pamphlet.

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