Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-06
Dickinson on the Mob.

There was public meeting at Bingham
ton. the other day, at which Hon. Daniel S.
Dickinson made speech from which the fol-
lowing extracts are taken:-
1.-THE CONSERVATIVE MEETING"
"The recent conservative meeting in the
city of New York, calted by some 9adical aU-
Ratu2ed people riot and mob, it will be
seen, came off about the time of Lees move
ment into Pennsylvania and the raid of Nor
gan and others into Ohio and Indiana. There
are a thousand evidences combining to prove
that these several movements had an init
mate relation to each other and that each one
was well understood by every other, or rather
by those who helped plan the whole. The
ominous givings out which precede them
the foreign recognition thermometer in En-
gland and France, where the mercury rose so
speedily at this juncture and simultaneously,
the confident and insolent tone of the cOnted-
erate prSsSSSmthe mission of the rebel Stephens
cy as the movements were inaugurated and
progressing, and lis malignity on their failure
the mutterngs of Lee i'll his inglOrlOuS re-
treat, that he had not been received and sup"
ported by his northern friends as he expected
and a whole cloud Of witnesses beSiles, proves
that the New York movement was a part OF,
and intended to be directly in aid of the cause
of rebellion. THE draft icaS mere p7ttence,
odd had really no more TO do with StimHlat-
ing the action of the mob than tic quaker
mcefing held IN this city q tesc peekS pyecloUS.
Tie citole loaS originally q derice Of some Of
the most icicked and unScrUPulouS and pestl-
lent politicians that eUer infested society.
The commencement of the draft was, by pre-
concert, made the occasion for the outbreak,
because it was supposed by the managers of
the affair that they could at this time, and up
on this occasion, better embody their motley
crew-betteI influence the passions of the g-
norant and prejudiced, and better turn to po-
lltical account, and WELD in aid of the rebel
lion, Il riot commenced in an ostensible resls-
lance to the draft than otherwise"
PURPOSES OF THE OUTBREAK.
''The outbreak in New York originated
with politicians, acting upon and intlaming
and encouraging the very worst elements that
ever disfgured sOcieiy-thleves, rufiianS and
cut Threats; bawds, pumps and burglars
house-breakers and murderers; assassins and
the settings and skimmings of loaferdom,
after the marketable lazzaroni had been sub
tracted. The contrivers and leaders who
opened the box and turned loose these off,
scourings, expected them to act politically
in pretended furtheranCe of a great conser-
vative movement-to damn Lincoln and his
administration; to nurra Tor their f3'leHdS 4;
to clamor Tor the constitution and laws-for
free speech and the wrongs of Vallandgham
and their southern brethren, while they, the
managers, would fan this flame to madness,
and add the true copperhead virus to the pop
ular fury by descanting upon the hardshps
and expressions of legal restraints, until they
might defy the power Of the government and
openly assist the rebellion"
"The thieves and robbers were willing to
act politically with The great conservative
party and advance the interests Of their lead
ers and vindicate the constitution, after they
had for a season looked to their own interests
and robbed and sacked stores and houses,
and carried home the spoil, but not before.
They had been accustomed, from supposed
cruel necessity, to steal and rob in darkness
and secrecy, and they were not disposed to so
far neglect their own material interests as to
let ali occasion pass which permitted them to
steal in open day, from the choicest assort-
ments, with governors and judges standing
by, proclaiming their friendship to advance
the political fortunes Of others or to support
the constitution. House breaking and burn
lug was necessary to successful theft and rob-
berry, and hence the votaries Of burglary and
arson were primarily engaged in their re-
spective avocations. THEFT first and politics
afterwards was their MOTTO"