New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-16
TEE rNCENDyARY PRESS.
Tho Insurrection Sustained by Copperhend
From The World Of Tuesday.
Yesterdays RIOT.

YESTERDAYS RIOT.
New.York Yesterday saw the saddeat sight that
she has ever seen since her first foundation stone
was laid The shameful history OF the day is writ.
ten Oh another paee. The stigma will cling 10 her
name and fair fame long after the printed psge has
persbed. Last night the northern sky was red
with lu1d fires lit by the hands Of an infrrisIed
mon; nothing bn, the smoking walls remain Of an
asylum for Legro orphans; ren, score and more,
who saw the morning sum- Ii. stark and dead; work.
shops were deserted and the passion of the lhborer
becoming il does the opportunity Of the ruff
fan, a saturnalia OF pillage, murder and rapins
Threatened again aud again 10 set IN upon the com
mercibl metropolis Of the Union.
Crowds all day marched hither and thtber along
the streets, reckless, unguided, with q burning
sense of wrong toward the Government which has
undertaken To choose ut random from among them
the compulsory soldiers Of a niisconducied war
with a sense of wrong, we say but wresking their
wrath cowarcIy and meanfy on deienseess, inofen-
sive negroes, biindly on propety-owners wboss
buildings chsnced 10 be hired BY Government off,
eials senselessy on the policemen whose discipline
ana power day by day insure them that security aud
order Which guards their labor and lives. The
abiding citizen hangs his head with shame that n
Government can 90 mismanage struggle for the
life Of natioD wantonly put itself out Of har-
mony and synpa.hy with the people, so deny itself
the support Of those whom it represents and
serves, 90 that, IN peaceful city, wboee sons
have gone to q joyful death for the nations
| life by the hundreds aud by the Thousands, and
whose teemng lap has been enptied Of i,s treasure
for the nations sake-here In the chief city and
very heart Of the nation, such scenes az those Of
| Yesterday can shock the Slgbt-that thsse brawny
Iceu, whom we counted among the Dstion's staiwaFt
defenders, to-day be shaking the foundations of
sooiety-oveuidipg ell government aud order and
law, 30 that every good citizen who has children
and wi 10 love, and property 10 guard, wishes
that they may be sho down dead in their tracks by
the hundred, rather than that order and law shall
not be re-ssta bhsbed.
Toe men who have gone from among us to the
war, who to-day guard the Capital, ana hold Lee
and his men al bay among the Maryland bills, are
| just such these who have struck terror
through our peaceful streets, of like passions swayed
by ike motives, TO DO kindled win the pain.
otic fire. ~f
What is it that differences the obedent soldier
and the insensate mobi Let the tenant Of the Whie
House answer. The poor day-laborer, whose fel-
low two years ego shouldered rusket and who has
fought in two years Of battles has as great an 10.
te est 10 the Government a no. Nothing in biz
character, Lila passons or his interests could or
should havs justified us in counting lees the
strength o. Lis right arm, or the sincerity OF his at
tachmsnt TO the Government than on those OF MS iel
! low. Yet yesterdsy mob spontaneously uprising
In the dIaft-dstrcts though without organization OF
leaders, ruled New-York, and nothipg but the rain
from the merciful heavens, which, daring the mid
night hours drove men 10 tDcr homes ana qusnC ned
tho ares which this mob had lighted, saved II, IN.
decd we saved from growing into organized and
controlled a~leseness.
Will tho jnsensate men at Washington now at
length listen to voice Will they now give ear
10 our warnings and atjuratioDs1 VIII they now
believe that Defiance of Law III the rulers breeds
Defiance OF Law in the peoplef Does the doctrine
proclaimed from the Capitol, that 10 war laws are
silent please them put in practice IL the streets OF
New, York; Will they continue to stop their ears
and shut their eyes to tue voice and Will OF loyal
people, which for three long years has told them by
every act and every word that this war must be
nothing but Q war for tho UDion and the Constita-
tiOn .. III i. ..
Does Mr.. Lincoln now perceive what alienation
be mas put between blmseu and the men who three
years ago Numbered out with one Voice ~ Union
Square. 1.-THE Union: 1t mnss and snail be pre-
served I" These are the very mon whom his IN.
becility his waton exercise Of arbitrary power his
stretches OF ungranted authority have transformed
into mob. AT the beginning hundreds of tbon.
sands OF men went willingly TO hsk their lives 1T
bis aud the pations call Was it impossible for him
20 to have rested upon the nations heart 10 havs
obsyed the nations will, that u pssd were stlu