The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-18
The New York Riots.

The New York Riots.
We present our readers with pretty null
Dissertation Of the infamous and fiendish
enormities of the New York mob, the
beastly dupes and followers OF the Woods,
Rvnders. and their fellow fends incarnate
of that city, On Monday last. The picture
is doubtless imperfect, but the horrible de-
tail.-the sickening and deplorable picture
Of enormous outrage and deprayity it pre-
sents. areenough, weshould think, to startie
even the most thoughtless into serious re-
Election. We make no comment. Ii the
facts do not awake men to careful consid-
Grafton of their cause md their own duty
no words of ours are likely to move them.
THE REAsoN.-Nearly every city throu'-
out the North has, in some way, officially
manifested or recognized the joy Of the
people over the capture of Vicksburg.-
New York City, the Commercial Metropo-
lis, is an exception. There, so far as we
have ascertained, the civil authorities did
nothing. The only reason we can find Tor
this retaining is to be found in the tact
that the Copperheads hold sway there. a
salute was fired, but it was at the expense
of private individuals. The resistance to
the draft, fomented by these same villains,
with Wood for leader, shows exactly why
thew did not celebrate. There was no JOY
among that class of .'fire-in-the-rear' men.
They were too busy organizing their mobs
and melting violence. That was the reason.
re- Lee has recrossed the Potomac,
much to the chagrin Of many well mean
ing people, who seem to think that Meade
should have ''gobbled him up instanter,
after infiicting such serious blows upon
him at Gettysburg. Nothing would have
delighted US so much as to have recorded
the accomplishment of these wishes. But
Meade has proven himself. so cool, prompt
and energetic, that probably it will be safe
for us to conclude that he has this time
done the right thing, as he did at Gettys-
burg. What his purpose may be, or what
impediments have stood in his way, none
of us know. But the evidence of his ability
we already possess, ought to satisfy usthat
he has done all that 'the situation" enabled
him to do. Besides, crossing the Potomac
where Lee has crossed, is quite different
affair from what people generally imagine.
Lees retreat is not yet ended, nor is it by
any means certain that he will succeed in
making it good. He is likely to find diff
culties in his way which Meade may make
insurmountable. We have faith in Meade's
skill and sincerity of purpose. Having
these, we have no right to complain until,
at least, facts prove that he has done less
than he had the power to do.
n-If Chattanooga has been abandoned
by Bragg and occupied by Rosecrans, if
Port Hudson has been taken by Banks, it
Sherman has defeated Joe Johnston, ifthe
the attack on Charleston is undertaken and
an important success already secured, and
all this information reaches us in one
night, we certainly ought to be encour-
aged to hope that the rebellion is really on
its last legs, and will speedily give up the
ghost.
Yet all this comfortable assurance is
marred by the accounts of the riotous pro-
ceedings in New York. We are amazed
at the perfidy which instigated them, and
the madness and folly of those engaged in
them. We are not troubled about the
event of them. They must be suppressed
and will be suppressed by the strong arm
of the law, sustained by the real law-abid-
ing citizens. But it is painful to see such
outbreaks, to find that men are vile enough
and insane enough to encourage them, and
to think of the bloodshed and dangers and
disgrace of such outrages. What terri
BILE load of iniquity and infamy the Woods
and their fellow scoundrels must carry to
their graves! They are the murderers who
have shed the blod of innocent patriots in
New York as certainly as if they did the
act in person.
nS-We are at loss which most to adj
mire the striking manifestations OF peace
exhibited by the New York Copperheads
or their regard for Constitution and laws
How beautifully they illustrate this Divine
attribute of "peace" aboutwhich they have
told us so much. And what nice Tx
| Governor Seymour is in? He is compelled
to shoot down the pic6-pocketsa and thieves
| of New York to whom he and the Woods
taught this business of revolution-the
devils incarnate which have so long beer
used to carry the elections in that city by
overlooking quiet people
| This outbreak was intended for the fourth
of July and was to be an adjunct of Lees
invasion of the North. Both were planned
and arranged at Richmond. Lees defeat
was not in the programme and interferec
SADLY with the success of the plot. Fer
nando and Ben Wood could not stem the
currant on the 4thTwhen loyal people were
rejoicing in New York over Meade's grea
victory, and the Glands" were held back
for time from their.appointed work. Blu
they now give US a touch of their quality
The Copperheads proper, those in ful
sympathy and communion with the rebels
intend to follow up this New York mol
with similar demonstrations all over tn
f North by which they hope to break dow
the Administration and stop the war;
: | JNbora,or thnr oap CHI their dime