The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-07-29
From the Richmond Dispatch, July; Is.
The News from New York.

The News from New Ork. .
We have some intelligence from the North
this morning far more welcome and much
more important than foreign intervention.--1
The peace-meetings in New Yerk,so bitterly
ridiculed by the unthinking-those. safe par
allels by which the anti-war people of the
North were working into open resistance to
Lincoln's Government have borne their
fruit. The white flag has been suddenly low
cred, and the red battle flag now waves in
New York over streets wet with the gore OF
Lincoln's hated minions. This grand move
ment in New York is but the precursor of
series of similar outbreaks. Already have ri
OTIS followed in Hartford, Conn.,, and Newark,
N j :, and IN few days we shall hear from
the West. These demonstrations may, and
doubtless WILL be put down by the iron hand
of the military, but there will be no enforce
lnent Of the draft after quiet is restored
These people have elected to die in the
streets rather than submit to the hateful ty-
ranny of Lincoln, and have proved them
selves in earnest by pouring out their blood
They have shown spirit which Lincoln,
too glad to see subsde, will never again
arouse. Already he is covering before it. and
| telegraphs to Gov. Seymour that the draft
will be suspended in New York. When he
shall have had time to fill the city, with
troops, this promise may not be respected !;
but he cannot fill all, or even half dozen of
the large cities at the North with sufficient
| force to enforce the conscription. Hehas not
the men to spare, and we may very safely
conclude that the days as we'll as the soldiers
of the Union army are numbered, There will
be no addition to Its strength, and it is con-
| fessed on all hands that the present Yankee
/ force under arms can never begin to subdue
the Confederaey. Let us have more OF these
outpourings-a few more great cities on the
mourners bench-some more quitting and
sacking of ho"ses, and hanging and mutilat-
ing of men. 1t saves the Confederate troops
q deal of marching and fighting, and lops of
many weary month of this war. The sack
ing and burning has been heretofore at the
South Our compliments to our Northern
"brethren," and may they enjoy their turn.
| -7 Fran the Richmond Enquirer, July 1s. z -.s =
/ Beginning OF Chaos.
Riot, murder, and confagration have begun
in New York 1t is a worlds wonder that
this good work did not commence long ago
and this excellent outbreak may be the open
ing scene of the inevitable revolution which
is to tear to pieces that most rotten society
and leave the Northern half of the old Amer.
ican Union desert of blood soaked ashes
We bid it good speed.
But all this may have little or no effect OF
tie war; at least for long time. Let US no
deceive ourselves; for internal revolution anc
even utter ruin in a nation by no means weak
ems it for foreign aggression, of which rexolu
tionary France is Il notable example. The
news is cheering to us indeed, because it por
tends the breaking down of the whole struc
ture of Yankee society. Yet the process ma.
be long ); and in the meantime the desperat'
energy of their war for conquest of the Con
federacy may grow more furious for season
!. No matter; VIC can at least row see to th'
end of ii. This one insurreetion may besup
pressed for the moment, but it will be the pa
rent of other and still worse coDyulsions. w
have but TO persevere in our determined re
sistance, grid ourselves to the task of ofwinnin
Z our Independence more sternly than eyer ,ye
little while, and we shall see the giant bu
hollow bulk of the Yankee nation burstin
. into fragments, and rushing down into perd
ton in flames and blood. Amen.