Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-23

THE OUrPosTs OF THE REBELLION
This term has been we'll applied to the re-
cent riotous demonstrations at the North,
particularly in New York. That the re-
bellion practically derives and and comfort
from this disturbance is manifest, but how
far the two are kindred in spirit and de-
sign is yet to be shown. A citizen of
New York, who writes to the Tribune,
one who has constantly opposed the course
of that paper on the negro question, and
denied both the right and the policy of
the emancipation proclamation, gives some
valuable evidence ON this question. We
make the following extracts from his COM
munication:
81 kaoac that there has thus far been
no surer passport through these mobs
than the expression of sympathy with the
rebels and cheers for jeff Davis. | con.
tess that, desperate and INSCRIPTIONS as |
knew the copperheads to be, | was sur
prised at this discovery. But when my
self heard the rioters give three cheers for
jeff Davis, and when heard from their
own lips their wishes for his success,
could doubt no longer, On Monday /
was present at the sack and firing of the
houses IN Lexington avenue. going through
the whole mob from its extreme verge to
the very front steps of these houses
There | saw man known to many per-
sons as a rebel sympathizer, hand and
glove with the rioters, encouraging them,
in consultation with their ring-leaders.
and welcomed by them wherever he went.
There | heard wishes expressed for the
success OF the rebellion and the destruc-
ton OF the naygurs.' There man of
decent exterior and apparent intelligence
exclaimed, as he saw the houses burning,
! There is the most glorious sight | have
ever seen this will pay JEFF Davis for the
loss of Vicksburg."
Early on Wednesday afternoon | was
| IN the Second avenue as a detachment of
the 9TH regiment marched up to dispense
| the mob which had been maltreating the
negroes near Twenty seventh street. The
rioters vanished before the detachment,
but closed in behind it, and began to boot,
and then to stone, and finally to fire upon
1t. One OF these very rioters who made
this attack, when the detachment had
moved about square of, called out, three
cheers for jeff Davis The cheers were
given, and numerously, though not very
loudly-tor the bayonets were too near
| stood not ten feet from the man who
proposed the cheers, and face to face with
him. In ten minutes afterward | saw the
| crowd which he then led stoning the Sew
enth's men,
The Tribune also publishes note from
a gentleman of high responsibility, once
connected with the World-when that pa
per pretended to be respectable journal,
as follows:
To the Editor Of the N. Y. Tribune:
! SIR; perceive that the World still
affects to deny that there is any connection
or sympathy between the participants in
the late terrible riots and the Confederate
rebels. Let me state a little incident
which came under my observation a few
days ago, and which may shed some light
on this question; At an early hour on
Tuesday afternoon, observed in passing
down Park row a very large crowd in the
publication office of the World, filling it
to overfowing, and extending over por.
ton of the sidewalk. 1t was made up Of
the same desperadoes as those whom Gov
Seymour had just addressed as his sstrue
and noble-hearted friends" and who hao
been hanging sullenly in front of the Tri
bune office the greater part of the day
But at the World Office their manner was
changed entirely, the greatest possible hill
arity prevailed, and drew near to heal
the subject of their conversation. founG
that they were openly rejoicing at the es
cape of Lee and his army, news of which
had just been received, declaring that HI
had out-generaled Meade, and predictin!
that he would yet obtain signal triumph
They rldlculed the report since confirmed
Of the Union successes near Charleston
declaring it "a id abolition le,' ant
in every way and in the most open man
ner gave vent to their sympathies wit
the rebellion, and their desires for its sue
cess. After staying long enough to salts
fly myself that this was the universal feel
ing, passed on. B.
New York, July II, 1863"
On Monday, says the Tribune, whe
the rioters saw the American flag flynn
over the residence OF an eminent citizen
the cry was, "Pull down that d.
rag" and this was followed by Shove
of stones and an assault, repulsed by tn
courage of the occupant of the house. O
Thursday afternoon, in Twenty eight
street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues
the American flag was torn down, wit
curses and frantic objurgations, torn t
pieces and trampled under foot. TIL
World labors IN vain to hide the fact tina
this is revolutionary outbreak, contrive
by the opponents of the Government, in
,, tended for its overthrow, meant to secur
the success of the southern rebellion
The atrocities, the murders, the arson, tn
pillage, of which the rioters have bee
guilty, their eminent leaders deprecate,
they deprecate them at all, as the mer
excesses of an instruction. But the in
' surrection itself is of their femenling
they Upheld it, and are only striving no,
to get the whole military and civil powe
into their own hands that they may hold
under their own control and make in a
, organized revolution.