The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-23
The New York RiOts.

The New York Draft RIOT mas aL lellRln oceu
subdued, and peace is said to reign in the EN-
pire CITY. once more. We have not room to
give the details of the hellish doings of the
mob as they come to us in the New York pa
pers The whole of our paper would not be
sufficient to chronicle the doings Of the three
or four DAYS of mob rule. We have been in
the habit of reading, of the ''Reign OF terror,
during the French Revolution as something
great way Off something almost fictitious
achimera of horrors that we could complacent-
" look at through the haze OF history-but
which we could by no possible means ever be
called upon to experience i'll our age and Ill
our own country. But it has been said that
history is constantly repeating Itself and this
is an illustration to the point. But this Reign
of Terror" in New York, in 1868, is even worse
than that in Paris i'll 1885. The Paris riot
ers were fighting for their rights against the
usurpations of atyrannical nobility. The New
York rioters are fighting against the very laws
that secure and protect their owprights against
the usurpations and oppression OF the money
ed class, and political demagogues who use
them as tools to accomplish their ends and
make the poorest day-laborer politically and
under the law, the equal of the Millionaire
The greatest rebellion the world ever saw, is
in progress in this country. The avowed OBJ
icct of that rebellion is to destroy the consti-
tuition and the Republican institutions OF this
country, which carry out the glorious princi-
pies of our Declaration of Independence, that
''all men are created free and equal that they
are endowed by their creator with certain in
alienable rights among which are life, iber-
ty and the pursuit of happiness. This mob
in New York is instgated by those in sympa-
thy with the rebellion and it's objects. The
slave holding rebels have undertaken to estab-
lish their confederacy upon the principle that
capital should own the labor of country
that there should be slave class to do all the
labor and an aristocratic class to rule, and to
live Oh the labor and toll Of the slave class
The slaveholding rebels declare that self-gov-
ernment and republican institutions in this
country, have proved failure, and they there
fore have attempted to destroy the govern
ment and found monarchy in its stead
Those i'll the Northern States, who sympathize
with this movement and believe i'll the doc
tritle that all Iaborers should be slaves, are
men who have instigated these draft riots
They have attempted to ''kill two birds with
one stone ITO aid the rebels by preventing
the raising of soldiers for the Union army, and
at the same time to prove by this deplorable !
riot and mob spirit that the people are not ca
pable of self government. Thus they would
make the rioters the strongest witness against
Wherever they can incite riot |
and induce the people to commit murder IA
pine, and arson with all the other barbarities
that follow in the wake of mobs all over the |
free States, they will do so; and every riot
they can instigate, will be a new argument |
in favor of the rebel doctrine that self govern
ment is failure!
Will the people-the laboring population Of
this country-thus,a at the instigation of DEM
agogues and wicked aspirants for absolute
power, assist in putting the shackles upon
their own necks =? That is what they are do
ing, and what they will have accomplished, just |
so sure as jeff. Davis with their aid, and the
aid of his sympathizers and satellites in the
Free States, finally succeeds In his attempt to |
destroy this government, and its Republican
Institutions. Will not the people see and heed
these things before it is too late?
No laboring man, no poor man, no rich man
nor any other loyal man was ever yet depriv-
ID of a single right or privilege by the Fede-
al Government. Every bowling demagogue
who is crying out against the oppression and
of the Federal Government knoscs
his to be true, but the truth does not suit his
purpose of making partisan capital. There has
lot been an undersigned arrest made in the
lorth since the rebels opened the war on the
government. On the other hand hundreds of
'ebel sympathizers have not ceased to urge
N their misguided followers toopen resistance
" llle government anu Tie laws Vi congress,
unchecked and unmolested In New York
heir course has eliminated in this terrible
lot. In Wisconsin the same cause produced
he same result last fall, and if it does not pro-
luce more riots this fall, it will not be on ac-
cunt ofany want of effort on the part of the
'ogus democracy.
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The 2ND WIS. REGT.-This veteran regi- I
nent went into the battle of Gettysburg,
Penn, 273 strong, officers and men. 1t lost ,