Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-17
l4TH PENN. CAVALRY.
The Raging RiOt-Its Character, and
the True Attitude Toward 1t.
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From tho New York Tin

The Raging Riot-Its Character, and
the Trae Attitude Toward IL
From the New York Times.
The mob in our city is still rampant
Though the increasing display OF armed
force has done something to check its more
fragrant outrages, 1t is yet wild with fury,
and painting tor fresh havoc. The very
fact of its being withstood seems only to
give it, for the Tins, new lDnlignity just
as the wild beast never heaves with dark
er rage than when lie begins to see that his
way is barred. The monster grows more
dangerous as no grows desperate. More
than ever, everything depends on the ener-
gy and vigilance of the authorities, and tho
sustaining cooperation of all true men,
Official duty and public spirit should su-
premely rule the hour. The man in pub
tic place, or in private place. who falters
in this dread crisis should stand accursed.
We trust that Gov. Seymour does not
mean to falter. We believe that in his heart
he really Intends TO indicate the majesty
of the law, according to his sworn obliga-
tions. But, in the name of the dignity of
Government and of public safety, we pro.
test against any further indulgence of the
sort of speech with which he sought to
propitiate the mob yesterday. Entreaties
for. No official, however high his position,
eau make them, without bringing public
authority into contempt. This monster is
to be met with sword, and that only. He
is not TO be placatod with q sop; and, If he
were, IL wouid Only be TO make him all the
more ipsatikte hereEaIet Ia the sname OF.
all that is sacred in low aAd all that Is
precious in society, Lee there be no more of
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authority. He will do it. He cannot but
do it. This mob is not our master. II is
not to be compounded with by paying black
mail It is not TO be duplicated and sued
to stay its hand. II is TO be defed, con-
fronted, grappled with, Frustrated, crushed.
The Government Of the State of New York
is its master, not its slave; it's ruler, and
not it's minion.
II is too true that there are public Jour
mails who try to dignity this mob By some
respectable appsllation. The Herald char
acterizes it as the people, and the Worldns
the laboring men Of the city. These are
libels that ought to have parAlyzed the fin
gers that penned them. II is ineffably in-
famous to attribute to the people, or to the
laboring men of this metropolis, such bid
eous barbarism as this horde has been dis.
playing. The people OF New York and the
IlSu VI N0H lOEh dEo uOI luCtu-
diaries, nor robbers, nor assassins. They
do not hunt down men whose only offense
is the color God gave them; they do not
chase and insult, aud beat women; they do
not pilIage an asylum for orphan children,
and burn the very roof over those orphans
heads. They are Civilized beiugS, valuing
law and respecting decency; and they re-
gard with unqualified adherence the do
iugs of the tribe OF savages that have
sought to bear rule in their midst.
This mob is not the people, nor does it
belong TO the people. 1t is for the most
part made up of the very VileSt elements of
the City. 1t has not eVea the poor merit
of being what mobs usually are-the pro-
duct of mere Ignorance and passion. They
talk, or rather did talk at first, of The OPP
pressiveness of the Conscription law but
three fourths of those who have been ac-
lively engaged in violence havs been boys
and young men under twenty years of age,
and not at all subject to the Cbnscription.
Were the Consumption law TO be abrOgated
TO morrow, tue controlling inNpiration of
the mob would remain ali the same. IL
comes from sources quite independent of
that law, or any other-from malignant
hate toward those 10 better circumstances,
from a craving for plumber, from love of
commotion, from barbaFous spite against
a different race, from a disposition to boil
ster up the failing fortunes Of the Southern
rebels. All of these Influences operate in
greater or less measure upon ahy person
engaged in this general defiance of law
and all combined have generated COM
posite monster more hellish than tho triple
headed Osrberus. -.
~ 1t is doubtless true that the CONSUMPTION;
or rather its preliminary process, furnished
the oocasionlfor the outbreak. This was
SO, simply because il was the most plausi-
BILE pretext for commencing open defiance.
But it will be fatal mistake TO assume |
that this pretext has but to be removed to
restore quiet and contentnent. Even ii it |
be allowed that this might have been true
at the outset, il is completely false now.
A mob, even though it may start ON a
single incentive, never sustains itself for |
any time whatever on any one atimulanE. |
With every hour 1t lives IL gathers new
passions, aud dashes afteI new objects. If |
you undertake to negotiate with it, you |
ind that what it raved FOR yesterday. it
has no concern for to-day It is as incon-
slant as il is headstrohg. The rabble
greeted with cheers the slppliart attitude
of Gov. Seymour, aud his promises with
TO the eopscription law, but we
have yet to hear that they thereupon abau-
doned their eu:rages. Tbs fact stands that
they aFe tonight, while Ne write, still in
satiate. -.
You may as we'll reason with the wolves
Of the forest as with these men in their
present mood. II is quixptic and suicidal
10 attempt it. The dutiesOt the executive