Statewide County MD Archives News.....They Rioted in Those Early Days December 14, 1889
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Maryland Journal December 14, 1889
Col. Chas. B. Rogers has in his possession an old book of 347 pagges printed 
in Annapolis by Jonas S. Green in 1813, being a report of the testimony taken 
by a committee of the Legislature in reference to the mob and riots in 
Baltimore which took place previous to the War of 1812.  These riots lasted 
three days and were caused by the publication of an article in the Federal 
Republican, a violent tory paper published at that time, attacking the Cabinet 
of President Madison.  This article so incensed the citizens of Baltimore that 
the editors, Hon. Alex. Contee Hanson and Hon. Edward Johnson Wagner, who were 
opposed to the war, were compelled to seek safety in the jail.  Several 
persons were killed during the riots, which were finally quelled by the 
military.  The evidence in this old book is an epitome of those important and 
troublesome times.  Gen. Tobias E. Stansbury, a Delegate from Baltimore county 
in the Legislature, sympathized with the article and was opposed to the war 
with Great Britain, and was charged with assisting to incite the riots.

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