The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-14

tuG SutCCSS WulCu ltiCE6 lOTGt vi ONCI-
powering numbers must ultimately COM
mand when the Northern press is most
triumphant and the Washington politi-
clans most elated, the people are ex-
pressing their disgust at the war, in
way which, if persisted in, must be fatal
to its further prosecution on the same
scale The riots in New York. Of which
we received hasty intelligence last mail,
are evidently little less than an insurrec-
tion. A mob of many thousand men,
armed with muskets, bludgeons, pixies,
brickbats and railroad iron, who are Gin
possession of the city" are not TO be
considered mere band of rioters. Moth
ing but the most indignant discomfort
with the proceedings of the Government
could have aroused such a storm of re-
sistance. Even the obstinacy of Mr..
Lincoln seems to have felt the necessity
of giving wav, and it is said he has tele-
graphed to New York to suspend the
draft If that be true, it will be hopeless
to enforce it, for such an example is in
| fectious, and other cities in the North
are not likely to submit to a eonscrip-
ton viii ch they have only to resist forci-
bly, to escape. 1t would have been
strange indeed if the American people
had submitted to a measure which is a
distinctive mark of the most despotic
Governments of the continent. But if
Mr.. Lincoln can only recruit his armies
bv conscription, and the conscription
fails, his Government will have collapsed
at the very crisis of its policy. The
hopelessness of the enterprise is never
more evident that at a time when it
seems most promising. The war fails to
unite the iarring factions of the bewil-
dered people, and they seem reused at
the last extremity only to the determina-
ton that it promises no result worth the
price they are asked to pay. Indeed, in
| spite of all the Confederate misfortunes,
there is one item in to-day's intellig ence
which alone shows what an endless and
hopeless task the North have before them.
Although General Bragg is retreating be-
fore General Rosecrans far into Georgia,
yet the country behind the Federal gem
eral is so far from being conquered that
two or three hundred miles in his rear
| Confederate general is invading Ohio.
| If the Federal Cabinet cannot protect
their own country, what chance can they
see of raising a sufficient force to hold
the South by military occupations
The London NeVs, our friend, rejoices
with exceeding JOY over the Union vic
tories, and gives the following as its
opinion of the riot.
We may fairly ask the Times what it
now thinks of its allies at New York.
They have shown-not changed
| quality, and their exploits are chronicled
| by Mr.. Reuter- on the opposite page;
what does our cotemporary think of them
now? For three months the ruffians of
| New York, who chose to call themselves
Peace Democrats" have been the only
party in the whole North for whom the
Times has had civil word to say. Their
spirit has inspired its New \ ork cores
pondent, and their rowdy orators have
been extolled in its leading articles as
the only wise and patriotic men in the
Free States. Stunned and loathed by
respectable Americans of every party,
the leaders of these pretended " Peace
Democrats have figured in the col
umns of the Times as the only men who
can save America, if that indeed be pos
sible
The Times has occasionally way OF
affecting ignorance of the commonest
facts. But if the Times does not know
who its New York friends are, there are
many thousands of Englshmen who do.
We have known those " Peace Demo
Gratis many years, under various names
and the wonder is, not that they have
now risen to murder unoffending citi.
zens and burn down houses, but that
they did not do so at much earlier pc
riod of the war They have been the
unjust Gccomplices and most degraded
tools of the pro-slavery party, both in the
North and the South. Mr. Lincoln s
Government has inflicted some heavy
blows on their interests. 1t has broken
up or driven away their slave expedi
tons, and it hanged Capt. Gordon. II
is astonishing that they endured that
hard trial The hour has come for them
{ to render last service to their friends
Although this riot is such an one as
might be got up in any seaport it is very
, disgraceful to the city of New York
| Nobody, however, at all acquainted with
I ! tue ulSlOIl VI llldI ClNl lOl iiiS AeSb bCi
years will feel the least surprise at wha
has taken place. There is no city in the
world of its size in which the mob is sc
t completely in the hands of few unprin
, cipled men. 1t was known a month age
, throughout the North the word had beer
given that the last card was to be played
!, by the Copperheads. 1t has been played
y and lost. The New York riot is fail
5 ure, and also a serious blunder The
action of the Federal Government vii
not be impeded by it for day; not ;
battalion will delay its march; respecta
v BILE citizens of all opinions will be drawn
y closer together and nearer to the Gov
!; ernment by the spectacle of violence
y which recalled the hourishing days o
New Orleans. And the riot will as little
k serve the purpose of the Confederate
n Government out of America as neare
home. 1t would be ridiculous to ikei
it to civil war, which it no more resem
e bles than our own Bristol riots. No pc
y litical party will acknowledge these pre-
= ceedings; and it will be impossible t,
o pretend that they were spontaneous
This is last foul blow struck for des
{ perate and dying cause, and it will prov
l. as vain as it is villainouS.
u The Star, another friend, after CON
e roo,+;no- IN tho cuncecr of onr arp,i es