Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-16
The New YORK Riot.


-t.a. The New York Riot. Cd
s The telegraph gives US the cheering in
telligence that the brutal demons engaged
IN the New York riots have been checked,
and that law and order is getting The whip
hand of them Fa1a So 10 VISA -77a
The spectacle has been an awful one for
the country and the world to contemplate,
and when the excitement subsidies, as it
soon will, we trust, the miRds of all think
ing men will begin to ask who were re-
sponsible. Then will come the reckoning
with the real yillAins in the judgment of
the people, The New York Times, of yes
terday has some excellent comments on
this head. 1t says: ..t s.-sgs N
1t has long been declared by the rebel
journals, and.slso by the. European journals
IN the interest OF the rebels, that the Con-
scription act could not DO enforced, and
that this would compel discontinuanceoOf
the war. The anti-war journals here in
the North while they in general have net
Yentured to recommend violent resistance
to the CONSUMPTION, have yet studied to
excite against 1t every unreasouing passion
and prejudice. Malignauts, too, of the VAL
landigham type, have for months been do
ing their best, by artful harangues, to TO-
ment spirit of resistance. These men
understood their work thoroughly. Their
business was TO bring about violence, and
at the same time keep themselves personal
~ uncommitted to violence; and Antony
himself never managed that business more
skillfully. Every discerning maH saw what
il would eud in--the mob in the street TAX
ing upon themselves all the risks, these
gentry in their closets rejoicing in the fray
| in which they dared not mingle. I'd
The Times instead of being coWed like
the cowardly Herald by the terrible scenes
Immediately around it's Office, boldly, man
fully and periodically calls upon the peo-
pie to rally to the support of the govern
nent and of law and order. II says fur
Their: s.fa.t $50 us4ts rsa# sghaL .
The issue is not between CONSUMPTION
and no-Conscription, but between order
and anarchy. The question is not whether
this particular law shall stand, but whether
law itself shall be tramp!ed under foot
Is this City to be at the mercy of q mob
Have the statutes of the land to await
the approval of all the Jack Cades of
society before they can attain any bind
ing force 2 Nobody ever Imagined that
L0lS COuSCElpIlOuf ACT r-WOuIuN SUI elLueT
rebels in the South, or rebel.sympa-
thizers in the North. No valuable law is
ever passed that has the favor of the
evil minded. Yield to them the ratification
of our public Legislation, and you will
| speedily be reduced to the condition of be
ing without any law whatever. There is
not mans life in this city that is sale, NOR
dollars worth of property, if the spirit
which dominated this city yesterday is to
be left to its own working. 1t is as fatal
| to our whole civil and social organization
| as the plague is to the ply steal constitution
ct man. To give way before it is simply
to invoke destruction. Our authorities, we
perfectly understand, have been taken
at a crest disadvantage. These riots
have been precipitated upon them at the
very time when they were least able
to meet them with pTOnIpLitude. 1t has
proved to have 4been q great mistake to
suffer our city TO be so completely stripped
of its military defenders.o But it is idle
now to repine over this. There are yet
available means enough if seasOnably and
properly taken in hand, tOEcrush, before
another twenty-four hours, this twin hydra
of the rebellion utterly, hey nd, all pOssi-
bility of its ever Writhing again. But il
will require bOldness, decision, nerve of no
ordinary character The responsibility is
practically with Gov. Seymour and Mayor
Opdyke. Men in their positions never
were confronted with more stupsndous.
duties. Larrz ys sis as .s5lae7lE I
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