Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-04-06

dieulOus affair may be turned account. Il ought to
put stop 70 boarding. 10 suppress speculation 10 IN
duoe producers bring in supplies to make the gov
ernment facilitate transportation and to clean out the
gamblers oaiers and rufans stock lock and barrel
Let Congress at pass law requiring every man to
show that he engaged in some honest useful calling
or else 90 into the army forthwith. In this way the
FIVE and twenty gambling houses that feed every day
nearly as many thousand iders and thereby up
the price of provisions will be swept away. Aud let
our high officials display little courage and little
reason The people afraid of unpleasant truths
why should they be- Let them not attempt impossi-
bites. But the reports in the papers will go to the
country and encourage other riots Better correct
account in print than thousand e1aggerstions from
many tongues and private letters. If the riots occur,
put them down it is easily enough done. But the Yam
KEGS will get hold Of it, Certainly What if they do!
Let them make the most of it; they are going to do
their worst any way. Better thousand fold that the
Yankees should ply their lying arts with all the aid the
disahected here can give them, than that the people
should see that the government Of Jefferson Davis is
timorous about any thing earth. The people are
manly SO should their government be, and put bold,
calm face on everything. If anything could be "kept
back the fate of Ananias should warn us of the folly
Of attempting it, Have gotten so deep in the mire
Of sneaking, evasive, alternately trucking and bully
ing policy as not to be able turn round and face Yam
kees and females combined? Or shall it go to the
country lhat the Confederate government is scared out
of its wits because parcel Of women broke OPEN a
store and stole a pair of shoes.
The following remarks by locker on, are very just
aud true as far IS they go;
To The Editor of the Wig:
Happened to be 4 spectator Of portion Of the do
ipgs Of the mob of "Holy Thursday" did not witness
The organization on Capitol Square or see the ourages
committed in Cary street. When | reached the 'scene
of action entrance just being forced into Iii Main
street which with the shoe store adjoining sacked
Mr. Baldwin addressed the mob which comprised per-
hans five thousand males and many hundred females
and in response to bis promises, many hundreds of
hoots and shoes were thrown back. Soon after this
the riot act was read and the military came on Sec
ton of the crowd had in the meantime taken posses
sion Of the old market whittier the military followed
them lesurely
think it is all important to call attention to one or
two points connected with this outbreak. The mob
which was got up under the Of a woman's bread
riot was, in reality, mans pundering riot The fe-
males a fraction OF whom were respectable, were all
comfortably clad and many of them bedzened out
in 6nery which not wanted to show their trade
These ladies'" as the worthy Mayor addressed them
we're Of home production as well as OF foreign growth
The indications we're that ey had been stimulated to
the mart they were actinSnot by want, but by the
tbousapds of ruians who stood around them and who
hoDed 10 secure By means of Them both safety and
Dlunder Who can describe mob gathered in Rich
mond and Of the yieSt Of the vile dregs which hewar
has been causing to flow into the city for so many
nonths The substitute who has sold himself 10 dozens
of regiments the expelled Of the Tigers the Plug Ugly
of Baltimore the ignOble army Of skulkers the uncean
company of Mississippi wharfrats, the abhOrred fellow
ship of the deerer the Oscourngs of Penitentiaries
the Yankee emiSsary, the select villains of many
lions were no doubt all there Hunger the ostens
b. cause of the riot But neither the butcher nor the
baker suffered. Stores containing provisions escaped
while those containing dry goods, boots and shoes and
above all fancy articles were sacked Ne. III Main
street which, while kept by Mr. Rouss, the cheapest
store in the city attacked because it known
there were fine goods within Il not rising against
extorLiou, but for plumber and open robbery.
Mr. Editor, there is a vast, and it is feared, an in
creasing sum of misery arising from restitution now in
Redmond But it is not Believed that the mob of
Holy Thursday" represented that misery. II repre-
sened rather the vice, the prOgaey, the prostitution
the cline of the city, the elements which wage eternal
war against society, aud against which society must
ware eternal war. Elements which, finding the times
favorable for an outbreak, and which being no doubt
prompted and paid by spies in our midst took advan-
taee Of this opportunity to rob in the day. what they
generally steal in darkness. These stimulated under
ia.e pretences, some really respectable people, who,
With their chdrens children, will lOathe the memory
of this day. And their mischief has been accomplished
But repea: my belief that this mob did not represent
the suffering part of the community. may MENTION
in illustration OF this two examples that came UNDER
nv observation While the mob was at its full,
saw man. ezceleutly dressed fat and stout pass by
YOUR Office door. On his head three hats, dem
John apparently full his shoulder in one hand
was ham, in the other pair of fine boots. On the
outskirts Of the mob, trying to get through saw, lit
tie later a poor woman She wore neither flowers
feathers, Grape shaWls hoops like the rioters Her
clothes we're thin and her face In her she
carried baby and by her side walked another little
one. She told me she had helpless old mother at
home that her husbands pay of eleven dollars month
was their ALL but that she would rather beg in the streets
than join the rioters