Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-16
The Mob in New York.

The Mob i'm New York. I We give elsewhere such particulars as we have received of the mob which IS even now while we write, raging rampant in the City or New York, So disgraeeful and outrageous an affair never before disgraced the annals or A. merican history. 4 crowd of the lowest ana viiest of the scum which New York City only | can produce, urged on,we doubt not, by crafty and interruptions men of more pretension 10 responsibility and decency, but whe are as vet carefully concealed in the background, en the ostensible plea of resistance to the draft' have enforced mob law throughout the clty, destroyed Government property, burned and putted priyate residences, murdered inoffen- s;ve citizens. beaten and killed numerous po licemen and officers of the law engaged in protecting the property of citizens. stopt the trains in and out of the city, out the telegraph wires and at the hour we write on Wednes- day seem to have taken possession of the City, powerless as yet to help itself or crush the rioters.
 | HnaC may Nt eu0 uuul6IlCai i0ISR 4uN strength of the mob, we do not know. Proba- bly the number may reach, but will not exceed thousand men, armed with pistols, clubs and knives, and infuriated by rum and their own base passions. But such mobs grow hourly in force and strength, and if it is not yet crushed the matter has become Q serious one for the people of New York to oppose. We can hardly conceive the limits to which such n mob will go, when arson, murder and re- sistance to all law is carried on with such a high hand.
 The latest intelligence we have is that the Governor of the State and Mayor of the City were in consultation, endeavoring to raise a sufficient military force for the suppression of the riot and the dispersion of the rioters. It is very unfortunate for the city, and doubt less is well known to the rioters, that the or ganized militia of the city is nearly or quite all absent at the war, defending their homes and ours from the invasion of the common en- emy. What force can be brought to bear against the rioters we cannot say, but it
 
 panies of infantry or cavalry, with sabre and and bayonet, powder and ball, must be able to put the rioters to flight, and suppress the riot, if it cannot select the ringleaders for instant death. E In Tuesdays New York papers we have in- telligence of meeting of the Mayor, and Generals Wool and Sanford, and others, to "preserye the peace," at which a President, Vice President and Secretaries were appoint ed, and resolutions passed declaring that there was mob, and that it must be put down!--a peculiarly New York way of quelling an in- surrectiou; but we presume those old gran nies have walked up by this time, ,and are doing something more than passing resolutions.
 We have no New York papers of Wednesday the trains in and out of New York having been stopped and held by the mob, and the telegraph being cut. Hence we have no later intelligence from the city than Tuesdays tel egrams, which we give up to the hour we go to press.
 The mob will undoubtedly be put down. and the supremacy of the law maintained-though not till after such wanton and destructive out rage and riot as will bring the blush to the cheek of every loyal northern man. But what shall we say of the instigators and abettors of this diabolical outrage? Who they are we can easily determine The threats made against the enforcement of the constitutionally enacted Conscription Law, the incendiary appeals that have been made day after day by such men as Ben and Fernando Wood and rebel trai- tors and spies who infest the great oity, and that have been poured forth day by day through the columns of that villaineus sheet, the N. Y. Daily Neaos and the equally villain ous Herald, have had their legitimate effect, and the fruits are before the country That the authors and abettors of these outragss and ri- ot, as we'll as their infamed and infatuated in- struments will be brought to speedy and con- dign punishment, at the point of the bayonet or at the end of 8 rope, we, in common with all good and loyal citizens. most devoutly pray and hope.
 The moral of this mob is easily drawn from lGSeu. lt suOWS tu0t uoIo VA0 To" 4S NSAAS~ and outraged, all laws are defed and trampled upon. and that anarchy follows the successful onsla ught of brute force and rapine, plum der, arson, murder even, are ever attendant | upon opposition to regularly constituted au- thority. Let us hope that our state may nev- CT be disgraced by such scenes or such acts Eas now hold the lawless city of New York un- der such reign of terror.
 10r We heard a copperhead say, yesterday, that preparations had been made in Hartford and New Haven to resist the draft, burn down the Marshalls office, scatter the enrolment, kill half 8 dozen officers, and get up little civil war generally here in this state. It may be so. The copper. would be likely to know the schemes of his fellows. But there ars Jails in Hartford and New Haven, and there is pow