The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-15
UNION NOMINATION.
SAMUEL CONY.


In Brooklyn. The city enjoys the presence and
the teachings of the Woodses and the Brook
SEES one of each is a member of the next Con-
gress. 1t also enjoys the teachings Of the Ex-
press, the World, the News and the Caucas-
sian New York, in word, is intensely DEM
ocratic, according to the latest political reve-
lations.
The democrats boast Of their respect for
law and order-of their reverence for the
constitution. They invegh against the exer-
else of unconstitutional and illegal power.
They also talk OF our southern brothers, of
the wickedness of war, of the beauty of peace,
of the requirements of christianity, of the
brutality OF carnage, of the infamy of wanton-
ness in the treatment of an enemy, of the in
humanity of the negroes, and even taunt the
negroes in the army with evncing lack Of
refinement incompatible with the graces Of
the christian character.
Well, just now we are having exhibited in
New York-in the most democratic city Of
the continents practical example of demo-
cratic respect for law, regard for order, rever-
ence for the constitution, and sympathy for
humanity. The essence Of democracy as
taught by its high-priests is being distilled.
The Express and World have applied the
match to the magazine Of infamable elements
which went to make up Seymour's majority.
As the Boston Journal well remarks, sit has
been for some time obvious that influential
men were embarked in course of conduct
that was calculated to bear precisely such
fruits. The written and spoken words Of
large class of which Fernando Wood and
James Brooks may be taken as the repre-
sentatives, have exhausted the vocabulary of
Misrepresentation and abuse on the subject of
the enrolment law, and have left no appeal to
the mischievous elements of the community
untouched. Some of these agitators have
artfully deprecated violence while actually
& suggesting it, while others seem to have
"of the multitude, leaving them to do their
own work when the time should come"
"On the very morning that heralded this
terrible and bloody outbreak the New York
World speaks of the CONSUMPTION act as "a
measure which could not have been ventur-
led upon in England even in those dark days
when the press-gang filed the English ships
ofwar with slaves 1t declares that such
were the circumstances which attended its
final passage that one might almost have
supposed the national legislature to be an
oligarchic conspiracy plotting vast scheme
of military servitude.' With a superiority
"of such insinuations, it maliciously incul-
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throu gh vengeful feeling on the part of the
War Department, is to be mulcted for more
than its fair proportion of drafted men,"
As might be expected, such democracy as
is preached in New York has sprung up and
borne fruit 1t has shown itself in assailing
telegraph wires, in burning buildings, in tear
ing up railroad tracks, in beating policemen,
In numbering the Superintendent of police, in
hunting and numbering the defenseless negro,
in destroying monuments OF charity, and in
similar works of vandalism. The following
items, gathered from the reports from New
York, show how this modern democracy was
working itself out on Monday:
Deputy Provost Marshal Vanderpool has
died from injuries received from the mob.
Two buildings we're burned and the enroll
ing papers destroyed.
Several negroes have been beaten and
killed in various parts of the city.
The escort for Gen. Cooks funeral were de-
tailed to suppress the riot.
1t is thought that the riot will not be quelled
before daylight. Blood will be shed more
profusely yet, judging from appearances,
though it is hoped better counsel will prevail.
Up TO this hour the riot appears 10 be in
creasng.
Women were with the mob melting them on.
All the horse cars were stopped ard the driv-
ers taken off by the crowd. The police were
overpowered and beaten horribly. A black
smiths shop was also demolished and its own
or nearly killed
The soldiers fired into the rufiians, when
they were set upon and driven off and pur-
sued about a mile. One of the soldiers was
caught and actually beaten to death by both
men and women fends. Another was nearly
torn TO pieces, thrown over aprecpice and his
body stoned until half buried. Soon after
squad of police arrived, but were driven Off
one of their number being torn TO pieces and
kicked to a jelly.
The most horrible and beastly outrages have
been perpetrated. Some twelve or thirteen
policemen have been SO brutally treated that
recovery is almost hopeless. Superintendent
About 3 o'clock the mob moved farther down
town, when the firemen went to work on the
burning buildings on the Sd avenue. One
house was entered where lady had just been
confined, and a number OF articles stolen, but
no violence was perpetrated.
AT 2 O'Clock Mr.. Howard, late city editor OF
the New York Times, was attacked by the
mob, bowling, "Hes an abolitionist" and
were about to hang him to lamp post, when
the mob's attention was diverted and he ran
for his life, the crowd chasing and striking him
in the back and head and face with heavy
paving stones, stunning him, when they rob
bed him OF his watch and chain and diamond
breast pin aud S33. He was, with difficulty
taken to the engine house, the doors Of which
resisted the mob, and finally he was taken
away. His injuries are serious
A person named Andrews of Virginia. who
has lately harangued meetings at the Cooper
Institute, seemed to be the leader of the mob,
and addressed them near the ruins while the
destruction of the building was going on. de-
nouncing the President, and advised the peo-
pie to organize and resist the draft.
Every negro who has been seen by the mol
has been either murdered or horribly beaten
Some twenty thus far have been killed. One
or two newspapers have been threatened
Citizens are arming. The colored orphan asy-
lum has been destroyed by the mob.
We might fill column with similar details
but the heart sickens at the recital. Such il
the practical fruit Of copperhead democracy
The guilty parties are not the roughs who
have piled the torch and the bludgeon, but
those more wicked demons who have set then