The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-07-17
Democracy Rampant |!

In another column will DO found con-
densed account of tho great riot in New
York city. and tho smaller ono In Boston.
In the former city the band of rioters have,
US their proceedings show. been organized Tor
some time with leaders, and their madness
seems 70 have method. The Harlem rail-
road bridge has been burned, the tracks Of
other railroads leading to the city have been
torn up, telegraph lines cut, q vast amount
OF property destroyed, a large number Of 10y
almen killed among which is Superintendent
Kennedy, tho house Of Postmaster Wakeman
burned, &c. &c. In Boston the rioters were
summarily squclchcd with grape and canis-
ter.
Who Is responsible for this state Of things,
ut whose door will the warrant for such pro-
ceedings DO found, whose teachings for the
past year have educated the ignorant and the
brutal to deeds Of violence, and whose dispar-
agement o! tho government and the laws,
whose filings at the lawfully constituted au-
thorities have served among the vulgar to
bring them into disrcputc? Not Union men,
patriotic and loyal; for however unlettered
and abandoned men may be, they never know :
ingly ipjure their own. Not those citizen
soldiers now stark and lifelcss in well filed
trenches who died to preserve law and order,
nor those now bearing arms to protect our
National unity.
At this time wo charge nothing upon In
dividual party men, but We do place the re-
spOnsibility upon the teachings Of those men
whose only object is and has been, to bring
the laws into contempt and incite resistance
to tho same. Men who were loudest in
threats and denunciatiOns against the gov
eminent, like tho scoundrcl Pugh Of Ohio,
have been adopted by tho democratic party
astheir standard bearers. Asasinglespccimen
OF riotous teaching we content ourself in call
ing attention to Pugh's comments upon the
order of Gen. Burnside: "Hc has sold him
self for Office, and become creature so inta-
nous that no word can describe his infamy.
If, before shutdown tomorrow. Gen. Burn
side should have mo arrested for violating
Order No. 3s, will you act? owe will
by thousand Of voices.) Then our liberties
are safe, and at the cost Of life mean to
maintain my rights"
These are the examples and these tho In
centiyes held out by that party, and dolcd
into the ears of an excitable populacc daily
by their press throughout the country and
now that tho seeds Of such damnablc advice
isripcning into sad fruition, on them and on
their heads will rest the accountability Of the
disgraceful proceedings of the last week.
The responsibility cannot DO efiaced or
shifted by denouncing these riots and con-
tinuing the teachings that has led to them.
Tx GOVERNMENT MUST DE PRESERVED whether
wo like oil its acts or not. We cannot hest.
tate if wo would, and we ought not II we
could. Follow your country's flag, demo-
Gratis, follow your flag, and preserve your
ancient name! Support your government,
and thereby preserve your liberties, which is
tho safe way known among men, and tho
only way to bring US that peace which wo SO
much desire. uo is
"a traitor To mankind, who, In n cause
That down the course OF time must fro tho world
Rides not upon tho lightning OF tho sky
To save his country"
There is an individual responsibility rest
ing upon each citizen, to stop Juggling issues
into this great vital contest that have no
place therein, stop trying to create dissen-
tons that bodo only evil to the country and
tho people, cease harping upon tho rights of
traitors and commence saying something in
defence Of your government against treason,
SUPPORT TuB LAWS, and riots and bloodshed
will cease, and tho bcncdiction Of peace will
settle upon that Liberty and Union, which |,
now and forever, ono and inseparablo.