Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-12

tile habit Of the miscalled Conservatives
at once ~ defame the people by eO1fouud-
| ing them with the pOPulace, and To use the
latter as the insensate instrument OF un-
scrupulous designs. Church aud King
mobs have played u considerable part IN
the political history of our country; and
/ it is quite conceivable that aristOcratic
gold may again be employed to instigate a
| temporary anarchy in the cause of ''Order."
But our upper class politicians have not
heretofore patronized the rutfianly element
in foreign Communities. Neither have
Englishment, in their. worst frenzies, been
characterized by the ferOcious cowardice
and cruelty Of the "Bowery boys" We
al9f0l, remember an Euglish riot in which
az patton was added to incendiarism,
and ee WegA, burned as we'll as houses
80 c6nne aceiYe even of the furies and
s.fiyfs II isafct lIe highway demolishing
'aniorphaa lumf 6r Hunting out OF their
homes the eoneu SSna ehffdren of an OBJ
noxtrns Quulter. q = very W1r5h, Of rOughs
are cohtent 10 make var upon meR and
upon probetty They a. hot extend their
drunken rage To t0ltlie idgUst helpless and /
poorest of thes populatioglsi Il is thap peruz
liarity of an Americap mob that itiuses
the bowie knife aud the revolver, the lamp
post aud the tar kettle,As web IS the crow
bar and torch, with all thBN hBNindisgriminate
fury of devils let loose. Aud il is pecu-
liarity that can be traced TO nothing in
American character or society but the in
hueuce of the Slave power-the power
that confOunds, humanity with properly |
that Eeckons man or woman, If black, |
only as piece of furniture, valued at so
many dollars; that treatS all obnoxious
speech or writing ns personal otfense, to
be washed out in blood; that extinguish-
ss in its vOtaries all pity and all decency
when there are victims to be sacrificed,
that makes contempt of life and law a
virtue, il either life or law stand in the
way of any appetite or interest.
The outrages that disgraced aud devast-
lted New York from the morning of the
18th to the night Of the 18th have all the
of a prO-slavery riot. They
liffer in nothing but extent and desperate
ness from previous ebullitions of the same
ievilish spirit. There is scarcely a city of
the North that has not, at one time or an-
other, been cursed with its outbreak
rhere is not now city save New York, in
which it is strong enough to work any
mischief. The demon has
nowhere been utterly cast out of Northern
everywhere, else it is kept
down by that loyalty to the law which is
the soul aud BOND OF Tree cltlZenShlp. Tue
great commercial city at the mouth of the
Hudson has been sorely punished for its
lucrative completely with the South.
Yet-pitiful, shameful and almost in
credible as il is-the London Times treats
these forty-eight hours of mob rule as
grave political event of pOrtentious siguif-
icance to the cause of the Union New
York is declared to be in state of insur-
reeti6n against the Federal IGovernmsnt.-
The enforcement of the cnnacriptiOn is re-
garded as hopeless, and the consequent
collapse of Ihe Northern armies are ineyit-
able. The s'peOple" are said to have been
provoked into stern and indignant resist
ance TO the prosecution of the war. And
all this because few Thousand miserable
stimulated by drink and insti-
gated by secret agents, overpOwered on the
ustant the police of city in which rioting
s periodical visitation Hopeless, in
Iced, must be the cause that can take com
ort from so brief AID shameful an episodel
Tor less depraved the political morality
hat dwelIs without one word of reproba-
ion on an exhibition so disgracefnl to our
ohmon human nature.