Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-12
How our Late Victories and the New
York. Riots are Viewed by FrIend-
Iy English Newspaper.
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From The London Star,

from lne LOn1On star.
Again the friends of peace aud freedom
may rejoice and give thanks. Again we
have news of victory that is the surest
presage of returning tranquility. The fall
of Port Hudson has followed that of Yicks-
burg. We have SoutheTn authority for
announcing its unconditional surrender on
the 9th OF July. The whole length OF the
Mississippi is thus restored to the author
ity of the Union. Not. only do its vessels
traverse the great river unmOIested by
Confederate batteries, but every place of
Importance on both banks is by this time
occupied by Union troops. lT
The Mississippi has been lost to the
Coufederacy, not from want OF fighting
but from want of fighting men. Every
thing indicates the rapid exhaustion of
Southern resources. Gen. Johnston was
unable to attempt anything against Grant,
and is now fleeing. before Sherman. Bragg
has been compelled from like necessity to
fall back rapidly from before ROsecrans.
Both suffer heavy losses from capture and
deseTtiOn as they go Nor is even the
greatest of the commanders aud armies OF
the South exempt from this compulsiou.-
We may be sure that nothing but con-
scious interiority OF forces-a hopeless
and permanent acknowledgements, have
y
without hazardiug battle.
1t will perhaps be said that the riots in
New York are an ample set-of against the
heaviest OF the Confederate disasters. They
will prove, we believe, on the contrary, the
seal and sentence of the doom which those
disasters forebode. While we equally de-
plore and reprobate that develish outburst
of savage bRrbaris1 In one Of the capitals
of civilization, we cannot shut our eyes to
it's cotnpeushtiug results. tits bur synp-
ton,-the most violent but the most ex-
haustive-of the mIlady that would have
eaten out the henrt OF the Union it it had
not, by repeated symptoms, been thrown
out to the surface. Every great city is at
the mercy, for eight ana forty hours, of its
subterranean classes There are rutians
enough in London or Liverpool to repeat
the scenes of 1850. II would be two days
and nights before respectability, scared
and disguised, Wouid collect its senses,
organize its farces, and repress the rebel
lion.-But the repression is always iueVi-
table. In New York the revolt seems to
have run its course almost unopPoSed from
the morning of Monday, the 18Th, to the
night of Tuesday, the l4Eh. Then author
ity began to exert itself in earnest, and the
rioters were checked in their reVel of fire
aud blood. 1t began in resistance to tue
conscriptiou, 1t soon extended Itself to
brutal aggression upon the negro popula-
tion aud their friends InstigAted, and
perhaps organized, by politicians of the
Fernando Wood school, it presently ex-
ceeded all political guidance or control.
There is but one power in the civilized
world that would have guided to deeds of
such atrocity. 1t is the old Slavery
spirit, so long dominant, but lately sub
dued, putting forth its hateful power for a
6nal struggle. OF the issue no one can
have a doubt. The conscription may or
may not proceed in New York. But Of
this We are sure, every negro murdered By
the Pro Slavery sayages of that city will
be worth thOnsand soldiers to the cause
Of the Union aud the Proclamation OF Free
dom. HencefOrgh it will be point OF
honor with everyidecent citizen to stand
by the Government that is assaiIed by IN.
cendiaries and butchers.
1t Is almost Incredible that any English
newspaper can regard with complacency
an event 80 disgraceful as the New York
riots II is tfde, indeed, that Tofyism aud
rowdyism are cid allies. 1t has ever been