Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-24
The New York MOb--IiOw it Orig
mated.

mated.
That the New York mob was the product
of conspiracy having its root among the
Southern s,cessionists S, is clearly seen:-
Meade's victory checked for few days the
intended demonstration. On the Fourth OF
July traitorous poster was thick on the
walls of New York, of which the following are
extracts:
'The people of the Southern States have,
of their own consent, established a separate
Government, sustaining it for more than two
years with remarkable unanimity and devo-
tion, unuer circumstances of great difficulty
and trial. -.-. r-al
"We cannot consistently, with our tradi-
tions and our principles, deny that people the
right OF self-goyernment, or oppose by force
the existence of the government they have
set up. If we cannot conqner them by the
arts and arms of peace, we have no right to
conquer them at ALL ....- ..
=, "ro speak of union by force is simply
absurd; piece of Puritanical hypocrisy.
"In everything, and in the most stipend
Gus proportions, is the Administration abom
Unable; !; the stencil thereof rises toward
Heaven, as the stencil of Sodom and Gomor-
rah. 1t is foe to all goodness, and whose
ever should destroy it would confer blessing
on mankind.
18th. The Southern people are fighting for
our liberties, as well as for their own. M
greater calamity could happen to us. than
their overthrow the destruction of the one
would speedily be followed by the subjuga.
ton of the other. .).......f ...'...
"7th. Should the Confederate army cap
ture Washington and exterminate the herd of
thieves, Pharisees, and cut-throats which
pasture there. de6ling the temple of our lib
erty, We should regard it as special interpo-
sition of Divine Providence in behalf of JUS
tice, judgment and mercy. ,.. .; -..,
18th. No portion of the Union is entitled
to public sympathy or assistance, or protec-
ton from Southern defensive invasion, so
long as it continues to be party to the pres
ent aggressive war. There cannot be lnno-
cent accomplices in crimes at which human
ity stands aghast.
"1Oth. So long as the present war contin
ues and despotism prevails, we shall have no
disposition to oppose Confederate army,
whether on our borders ,or in our midst :;
rather :: would we bail them as friends and de-
IivererS \
18th. Fellow citizens, in the name of the
Thirteen Colonies, we say to you-'Resist-
ance to tyrants is obedience to God'"
.s,. .- d.. f.-. ... ta spirit OF TO"
And this undoubtedly was posted by the
same fellows. who had Gov Seymour threat
ening letter about the arrest of Vallandigham
placarded in the alleys of the Five Points.
Only few days before the outbreak, Gov.
Seymour himself, in speech at the Academy
of Music, denounced the Constitutional doc
trine Of military necessity by which the Pres
ident acts in his efforts to overthrow the re-
bellion. He said :-"Remember this, that
the bloody, and reasonable, and revolution
ary doctrines of public necessity can be pro-
claimed bya mob as sosV as 5y a Gopern-
msnt." The sentiment was received with
loud applause by the audience. How well
they understood its import has been shown
by their subsequent acts. l, ,.