Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
mi, From the New York Tribune
me New York moh---Its Charactar
and Motives.

The mob that has for two davs rov
aged, and burned, and slaughtered Al.
most at will, has been strong only in tho
weakness of the military and the com
plalsance of the civil authorities 4
single battalion or light battery, ear,
nestly commanded, might have q1ellcd il
at the outset, captured its leaders, and
stopped its career. Impunity in the be.
ginning, stimulated by the hail fellow
speeches Of magistrates who have no
right to be cheek by joul with incendi,
aries, miscrcants, robbers and assassins
has given it all its disgraceful prestige
and license. Had the civil power alone
confronted it with stern Remuneration
with scornful adherence, no military
demonstration would have been needed
But, with sympathising harangues from
Alderman, echoed by Judges, and y
Governor to address it as ''friends." and
enforce its demands on the President
it would have been the weakest and
meekest Of mobs, if it had not pre-
sumed upon such familiarity and gone
lahead.
1t is absurd and futile, to attribute
this outburst of ruf1ianism to anvthina
else than sympathy with the rebels. IF
as some pretend, it results from dissatis.
faction with the $500 exemption, why
arc negroes Unfortunately assailed and
beaten almost or quite to death. Did
they prescribe this exemption? On the
contrary, are they not almost uniformly
poor men, themselves exposed to the
draft, and unable to pay the $780,
What single thing have they done to
expose them to this Internal, cowardly
ruiflanism? Whatcan be alleged against
them, unless it be be that they are gen
orally hostile to the the SHAREHOLDERS
Rebellion? And how are the drafting
officers responsible for the $500 clause
| We may just as well look the facts in
the face. These riots arc "a fire in the
rear" on our country's defenders in the
field. They are in purpose and essence
a diversion in favor of jeff Davis and
Ice. Listen to the yclls Of tho mob,
and the harangnes Of its favorte orators,
and you will find them surchargcd with
''nigger, Abolition, Black Republican, y
denunciations Of prominent Republic
ans, &c. All very wideawake of the
i draft and the exemption. Had the Alb
olitionists, instead Of the Shareholders,
revolted, and undertaken to upset the
government and dissolve the Union,
nine -tenths Of these rioters would have
eargerly volunteered to put them down.
II is the fear, stimulated by the recent
and glorious triumphs Of the Union
arms, that Slavery and rebellion must
suffer, which is at the bottom of all this
arson, devastation, robbery and murder.
And this fact should arouse every de-
voice of Liberty and Law to oppose to
the rioters the sternest resistance.
From the New York Times, 15tg.
This mob is not the people nor does
it belong to the people, 1t is for the
most part made up of the very vilcst ell
cmcnts of the city. 1t has not the merit
of being what mobs usually are-the
product of mere ignorance and passion.
They talk, or rather did talk at first, OF
the oppressiveness of the conscription
law, but three -fourths Of those who have
been actively engaged in violence. have
been boys and young men under TWEEN
ty years of age, and not at all subject to
the CONSUMPTION. Were the conscrlp-
ton law to be abrogated tomorrow, the
controlling inspiration of the mob would
remain the same 1t comes from sources
quite independent of that law, or any
other-toward these in better circum'
stances, from a craving for plumber
frors a love of connection, from bar
barous spite against different race zee
falling fortunes of the Southern rebels
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