Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-07-30
Rebel Joy Over the New York Riots
Beginning Of Chaos.
+ from the Richmond Enquirer, July Is.

from the Richmond Enquirer, July Is.
Riot, murder and conhagration have be-
gun in New York. It's worlds wonder
that it did not commence long ago. and
this ercellem outbreak may be the opening
scene of the inevitable revolution which is
to tear to pieces the most rotton society.
and leave the Northern half of the old
American Union desert of blood soaked
ashes. We bid it God speed.
But all this may have little or no effect
on the war, at least for long time. Let
us not deceive ourselves; for internal rev.
olution and even utter ruin in a nation by
no means weakens it for foreign aggres-
sion, Of which revolutionary France is
notable example. The news is cheering to
as, indeed, because it portends the break
ing down Of the whole structure Of Yam
kee society. Yet the process may be long
and in the meantime the desperate energy
of their war for the conquest Of the Con-
fedoracy may grow more furious for a
season.
No matter; we can at least now see to
the end of it. This one instruction may
be suppressed for the moment, but IL cW
be the parent of other and still worse con-
rulsions. We have but to pcrsevcre in
our determined resistance, grid ourselves
to the task of winning our Independence
more sternly than ever, yet a little while
and we shall see the giant, but hollow
bulk Of the Yankee nation bursting into
fragments and rushing down into perdi-
ton IN flames and blood. Amen!
The rebels understand, and understood
long before it occurred, that the draft
would be made the pretext for an ihsur-
rsction in the North, which it was inten-
ded should paralyze the Government,
cripple the army. and lead to the final
success Of the rebellion. The New York
mob was not sudden outbreak to those
who planned it, nor an unexpected one to
the rebels, who speak of it with the con-
fident tone Of realized anticipation. 1t
was q part of the rebellion, with its place
assigned it, its effects mapped ont, its CO.
operation with the rebel armies weighed
and measured. Ii Lee had repulsed Meade
we should have seen "another sight" than
baffled and beaten band of murderers
hurled along the streets by charging reg
iments Of loyal men, and that other sight
was what was bargained for, and put
down in the bill. The ruin of the Gov.
eminent and the success of the rebellion
there and then, was the aim, and not too
remote an aim to be spoken of without
shudder OF horror and hatred, of the Wood
and Vallandigham traitors who planned
that mob, instigsted its outbreak, and en-
couraged its excuses. But Providence
was wiser than Wood, and tho bullets of
the soldiers more persuasive than the
speeches of Andrews, and the riot failed
In the very midst of our successes. its sue
cess would have enfeebled u.s. In defeat.
as its authors hoped to use it, it would
have ruined us. It would not have been
New York mob only, but Northern
mob. raging in every State. and nearly ev-
cry county of every State. 1t would have
filled the land with blood, and either
brought back our armies to rest ore order
at home. or stripped them of all help and
hope, and left them to the mercy Of the
rebels. This was its purpose.
Every fact yet ELECTED strengthens m ore
and more the partizan character of the af-
fair. and indicates more and more clearly
that It was not to stop at New York, as it
did not. But the Almighty has overrulcd
the wickedness of these traitors for good.
The defeat of the mob has shown disloyal
men everywhere that there is danger in
such work, and danger IS not what they
care to meet. much less to go after. If
two or three thousand Of the brutal. beast-
u wretchcs WHO scattered murder up and
down the streets had been killed-if the
cannon had poured canister shot into them
instead Of blank cartridges. the lesson
would have lasted this generation. and
mobs would have shrunk out Of sight with
the reason that melted them.-Ind. Jour.