Excerpt from Testimony Taken Before the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland in Behalf of the Civil Authorities of Baltimore: To Which Was Referred the Memorials of John B. Morris, Reverdy Johnson and Others, Praying Indemnity for Losses Sustained by Reason of the Riots in Baltimore, in the Month of August, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Five I believed that the substantial citizens would rouse up at last and put an end to scenes disgraceful and dangerous to our town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.