The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-08-06
The Result OF Evil teachings.
NUMBER 9.

1
From the Chicago Post. Democratic
There has been frightful mob in the city
of New York Blood has flown in the streets,
property has been destroyed, men have been
brutally murdered, and men and women have
been shot down, and the pale faces of the corps
es have been redeemed with the glare Of burn
| ing buildings to which many of those stitfen'
/ ing in death had applied the torch. War with
all it's horrors is terrible in its details OF hui
man sacrifice and human suffering. Civil wal
with all its additional horrors is still fresh In
/ the memory, and still hateful in the eyes Of oui
people, but though these may present scenes
of desolation, strife and death on larger scale,
they fall shortin the reality of the bloody trag-
/ edies which a full grown mob, large ano
successful riot, present.
i The New York mob, in its origin and in its
fearful enactments, teaches another lesson, as
/ it has been taught often before, ofthe basenes:
of political demagogues, and the weakness o.
their deluded victims. Why was there mot
in New York, while within hundred miles
of it there was an invading army threatening
to reduce the city by fire, by pillage, by the
sword? Why should there be men and wo-
men i'll arms in the streets of New York, fight
| ing, burning and disappearing, when within
twelve hours journey there was an army Of
enemies defying the husbands and brothers Of
those engaged in the mob, who had gone forth
to defend their country from invasion Die
not the fields of Gettysburg, with their hosts
of dead and mangled bodies, furnish their Wis
ions with horrors enough that they must pro
duce the like horrors in the streets of New
York ? What is the pretext of this mob? The
government has enacted law providing fol
the CONSUMPTION from time to time OF all those
persons capable ofdoing military duty, to serve
in the army Officers have been appointed tc
execute that law, to enroll names and draw
the numbers required. While these officers
were thus engaged in their sworn duty, the
mob set upon them, beat them, wounding one
of them so severely that his life is despaired
of, and then fired the buildings The police
turned out to preserve the peace, and they
were set upon and some of them murdered
A small military force undertook to protect
the fremen in their efforts to stay the de-
struction of property, and these were seized,
beaten, and some OF them killed. Other out
RACES followed, as natural consequence o.
momentary success ofan irresponsible and un-
restrained mob. In the melee number Of
rioters were killed and wounded. If the OBJ
iect of the mob was to prevent the execution
of the law they ought to have known that
| they must fail The army may lose some con-
scripts III that district, but those engaged in
this bloody affair will meet with speedy and
terrible punishment. The gallows is a poor
alternative for the service of the country
| That the law will be executed is beyond all
doubt and not a man i'll that district will es-
cape because of this mob. unless he escape by
the penitentiary or by military execution
That is. and necessarily must be, the only al
tentative.
Who is responsible for this mob2 Every
intelligent mind will acquit the poor foolish
and misguided men who were the active OPP
orators in this disgraceful and shocking trag-
edy of being the originators of an individual
or organized resistance to the laws OF the
country. If let alone there would have been
no resistance no mob, no bloodshed, no dis
graceful proceedings, beyond such regrets
as a CONSUMPTION must inevitably produce
The whole blame, responsibility and criIuinal-
ity of the whole affair shonld rest upon those
demagogues led by Fernando Wood who for
months have been educating the thoughtess
men and women of New York that this war
was an illegal and unauthorized proceeding !;
that, being such, no man was under obliga-
tions to take up arms at any demand; and
being under no obligations to serve in the ar
my, any effort to compel him to do so was
an illegal attempt to deprive him of his rights,
which by all laws, human or divine should
be resisted by force adequate to repel the
threatened injury In thefree and unbridled
exercise of free speech, these demogagues have
wantonly, brutally, and cowardly, taught
these poor misguided men that it was duty
they owed to themselves and their families to
resist and defeat the CONSUMPTION law. Was
Fernando Wood, or Ben Wood, or Blankman,
or McKann, in these riots, battling alongside
of the men whom they had induced to this
folly? Not one of them. They were not
there. They urged these men on to crime,
but took pains to keep out Of it themselves
These same kind of men are engaged here,
and elsewhere, telling the people thai the con-
scription is illegel and ought not to be enforc
ed How far they have succeeded i'll their
wicked designs to corrupt and mislead any
portion of the public, we know not; but our
advice is; that when any such man makes
such speech, he ought to be required by
those who he is melting to violence, to pledge
himself in writing that he will lead and take
part III any active effort to resist the law. If
he will not thus place himself In the hands of
the law, let him be kicked from the presence
of those whom he urges to do that which he
is too craven to do himself. Bahia.