Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-01-29
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~Tbe sviris Of mobocracy better


EThe spirit of mobocracy better
known as Democracy, seems 70 nave
been let loose for little season, to
show the civilized how beautifully it
accords with peace and order. The
proceedings of that party g few days
since in Harrisburg. Pa. during the
election ofa q. s. Senator by the Legis-
lature, was worthy the best days Of the
French Revolution. A horde Of misere-
ants from the purlieus and brothels
of Philadelphia, sent by railroad at the
expense of distinguished Democrats of
that city like Frank Hughes, and VIM.
B. Reed, filed up every available inch
of room in the rotunda and lobbies Of
the House, threatening instant death to
any Democrat who should dare to vote
for the Republican candidate, or rather
against Buckalew, one of the most no.
torious "sympathizers" in the State,
who will occupy the same position in
the Senate ValIandigham does in the
House. He was elected by one vote.
No one doubts that his election was
ewing to the presence Of the rowdies
and roughs from distance. sent ex-
pressly 10 oVerswe and intimidate the
representatives of the people. They
succeeded most admirably-and this is
Democracy. "Tbe people shall rule" +"
say the Democracy, so they may, if
the Democracy can rule the people.
Look too at the disorganizing, and
disgraceful conduct in the House of
Representatives at Albany, New York.
For weeks the aceursed thieves and
garroters who shout for Fernando Wood
and Horatio Seymour. have been hol-
ding high carnival on the very floor Of
the House, preventing the election of a
speaker, and retarding the progress of
business, even when Mr.. Calicutt, a
Democrat IN every thing save hostility
to the Union cause, was presented as a
candidate. and voted for by the Repub-
lican side of the House. Because they
knew him to be honest, and that be
would give them fair show Of the com.
mittees, these murderous secession
sympathzars denounced him in the
most outrageous manner, for daring to
allow bis name to be used as candi-
date against the pro-slavery Seymourite
candidate Of their own stripe, who they
knew would so unfairly apportion the
committees as to give them the whole
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Look, too at the disgraceful scenes in
Indiana, where the message of sound
Union Governor was disrespectfully
kicked out of the chamber or refused to
be heard, because they knew it to be
strongly in support of the Government.
The ostensible grounds for declining to
hear it, was. that the House had not
yet organized. yet the contemplate
knayes, shortly after endorsed the tory
message Of Governor Seymour, Of New
York. well knowing it had only been
delivered to the Senate.
Even at Columbus. in our own State,
the disorgauizing leaven is doing its
dirty work. Such traitors as Olds,
Dressed, and others of that class, are
remarkably active in denouncing every
measure of the Governments to sustain
Itself against the traitors.
To what is all this tending? To anar-
ehy and civil war of the most direful
kind. These wretehes do not deny
that they never were at heart for the
war. They are every where acting il
concert, and as Brownlow says unless
the strong arm of the Government il
sailed in, not only to suspend the ha6sa'
corpus, but the corpus of all such trait
ers, our brave soldiers may as well
turn their bayonets North ward, and
protect their own fresides from foe
more Internally mean, cowardly and
wicked, than any traitor in the South
dare he