The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-08-29
The London Times on tae New York Mob.

And vet. bguta, Us the mob has shown
itself in It's murder os inotituSire negroes
no less than seven Of whom were uhnG
from the lamp posts IN dlgerent palts oi
the city on "Wednesday night, In addition
To tcy or twelve xAo we're beaten 10 daatn
or thrown into the river, Il > h1r3 n say
,rFetisrtle c9k{-JolG-t bru,oH.y OF t'c f.0a.Hg
,ytl,ai. .ray not tie drsst pr7.ocrs q t"ta
tauu =, the very i.gst outureaH OF tie
riots. when a few wards Of CCnci.!all0n
from men in whose judgment tie pubic
contided. and whose personal character
and social pCsinion were entitled to re-
spect. might have clamed the storm o.
d,scoutent-or, al all events, prevented
hed-M62s. .isUTays dEpyea a tsro-. y
Hat Is usycr f5,ra e.. eot in the hearts q rs1-
pie schg arct,r ants atle byr Iturc and ~ tralr>
,H2 There Vas 10 be 40 palloy with men
who resisted the draft. The draft wss the
only hope aud salvation Of the county
for every negro killed hundred white
men were 10 be executed.
Every rloter was to be remorseicss!y shot
down. An c!ilcer who wished TO save the
cfTusion of blood and fred blank cartrld
ees over the heads o. the people to alarm
them. was declared 10 be :" no man, bat
"coward!y ruiiain,' who deserved instant
death. Grap-eshot, and plenty OF II,
was the sole remedy for popular discon>
tent. Such were but few OF the phrases
with which they intiamed the angry pas
sions of the crowd, and manifested how
little comuetant they were TO .dvise IN the
crisis of national misfortune. Their col
yp,ns q,dnot contain. a s,ngls oppression cgLc.,la
tel 70 allan irritation Blood more blood
was the sole obiurgation the blood OF the
only men from whose ranks the Govern
ment can expect to draw defenders, how
ever imminent It's peril the blood ot men
criminal complaint against the AdnlIni5
,ration was lis disregard Of ti.e law and
the Constitution: the blood OF the classes
that kcar !,non their shoulders the weight
of ali the work O! Leace, and OF all the
cost and hardship .. gar biood-U!ccd
unlimited, and the more The better. SucA
was their morning cry and their eEeninS
Recommendation; and 7 tie Popdar pa5s'0!'
,eas thus erasperated into . hsrccr terer than a
m;oht hare ot5crusse reached, these Tere TIE
men ,cho rere gully Of ptling up ne .iHel ana
thro,ciag oil apon the flames
Tie leaders Of the Republican party
were to the full as rabid as their press
| Though Gov. Seymour, with rare aaniix
ture of Cancellation and irmness, eontriv-
ed to allay the anger OF the crowd, and re
duce the insurrection within such limits as
might render it easily repressible by the
strong arm of the local authority, civic as
we'll as military, these persons, seeing as
as they imagined, an opportunity ior deal
lnra blow at State sovereignty, when
they rightly hold to be Incompatible WIN
the extension and consolidation OF the
Federal power, did their utmost 10y per-
sonal remonstrance and by alarmlst teie'
grams to Washington to induce the ffesi'
dent t, declare martial law over 'ile 80
and c;tv of New York, and appoint Gen.
Butler to enforce it Fortunately the
PRESIDENT was, ,u'this respect, wiser than
his party, and did not choose to run the
I risk Of struggle that in The then temper
of the people, and with a man like Coy.
Seymour to use it in defense OF a strlcuy
legal position, might have been the com
| n,encement of a revolution strong enough
to sweep the Federal Government before
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