New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-23
February. Then they were insulted and out
ragged that a Republican President should have

auehpt TO pass quietly ana rapidy, Withoul
parade or brayado, intending no harn AID lear
ing 10 danger. through those very streets whore
they pretended Mr.. Lincoln might have been
borne in state two months ago. That they would
have killed him il he had is no longer open 20
doubt.
The falsehoOd Of their excuse for their freshest
murders is shown by these facts: Senator
Sumner Of Massachusetts, unsuspcious Of danger
stopped in their city the night tciore tho Mas5a-
chufetts men were there. put up at Barnums
Hotel, registered Lis name, and walked directly
out TO visit friend. Very soon the house was
surrounded by fierce yociferous thousands, cry
iog, bring him out :" grooming. and threatening
to tear down the house. They were assured
that there was no such person in tho house.
At q, Dir. Sumner returned, was taken in ut
sidc-door unrecOguized, and shown to his room.
Hero be was speedily waited en- by the landlord,
aud By the manager, who each entreatod him to
leave, TO save his own life, with tho house and
its contents. He refused, since he could lot get
out Of the city, and had no right to expose o
private dwelling TO danger. The landlord then
put him into another room, and, of course, denied
that any such person was il the house. The
mob were thus got rid Of But Mr.. Summers
desire to wait TIL the second moving train was
oycrrulcd By TIE landlord earnest circumstances,
or rather entrcates, and he left al A. NJ,
private carriage taking him from the private
door, so that he should not be seen. This was
while no one pretended that any afront bad been
offered to Baltimore or any special cause for
riot existed. Tne mob wished to kill him simply
because he wa, Charles Sumner, the eminent
Republican Senator from Massachusetts,
Now look at the next days proceedings AID
their excuse:
A regiment OF Massachusetts and one Of Penn
sylysDia Militia, il obedience to the reqlisitcn
of the President were fastening to the defence
of tho Federal Metropolis. They were not going
| to fight any but those who defei the authority
| of the Federal Government, openly resisted its
laws, and were bent on the destruction or spolia.
ton of its property and the subSersion of its
authority. What wGs there in oil this to excite
tie ire of or provoke hostile demonstrations FROM
| any but ingram traitors Why should not those
men have been received as warmly and treated
| as kindly in Democratic Baltimore As in Demo
| cratic New-Yorki Who believes that one loyal,
Union.Oying soul in all Baltimore was excited
| to wrath by seeing those men in that city Re
member that neither Governor. nor Mayor. nor
even Marshal Kane, had asked them to avoid
Baltimore on their way TO Washington.
Part of the Massachusetts, men. wen armed,
passed through the citizens unmoestcd. Then
tho itIa hsfr efi IONS
on tie track. So far, noLe Of the Milita had been
seen except BY pceping into the windows Of the
cars. n nas he obstruction IF The railroad By N,
mob that competed he remnant Of he Massa-
oLustas mcn 10 hare the cars aud march through
he streets. Bat for this, there would have been
no prctcnse Of seeing them or being excited BY
them. That tie few and partially armed Massa-
chusetts men, thus confronted by a vast and hos.
tile mob, tried to pass as rapidly and inohcns-
iyey a. possible, oil will believe. They cared
| nothing for bowls, or groans, or vile abuse;
they stood knocking down By showers of pay.
ing-stoncs, with Christian moehness not
TIL they had secn comrades fall dead in their
rank, killed by bolts of iron thrown on
their heads from upper windows, or shot
did they obey the order to fire. Who shall say
that their forbearance was not heroic! Who
but a brse traitor VIII pretend that they did any
thing that justifcs or at all excuses the ou.ragcs
afterward perpetrated on the unarmcd Pennsy-
yanans who followed them, or on the Northern
citizens remaining IN or since attempting 10 pass
through the city And yet this hidcous crime
~ tina Holtitpnro Mi, rt,da tha for all
its subsequent outrages, for the crushing out Of
the Union men, for the destruction Of the Rail-
roads and Telestaphs leading to the loyal States,
and the fitting out of pirate vessels in their
harbor to prey upon our commerce or attack
the unarmed Transports hurrying with citizens to
the defense of the Stars and Stripes It'll waving
over the Capitol of the Union.
1t ia matter of course that 90 soon as
sufficient force is collected in Washington, TO
render that city safe against any body of Rebels
that can be brought against it, the Baltimore
Mob will be taken severely in hand, and taught
lesson of good manners that it seems TO nave
been waiting long to learn. We judge that be-
fore the end OF the present week, at least 10000
men, with ample artillery, viii be gathered about
Baltimore, for the purpose Of restoring order and
doing justice. One of the most painful features
of the duty TO be performed will be the amount
Of suffering to be inflicted on the innocent in the
cLast.5ement Of the guilty; but We so!emnly warn
the authorities and tho respectable people, not
only Of Baltimore but of Maryland, that they
will Do well 10 hasten the restoration of order
and obedience IN file laWs in fiat city. Ia restoro