New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-17
TIE COpPERMEAD Mob AT DE
TROlT,

Northern traitors have found no more ell.
Gent means to ALLEVIATE tho sympathies Of loyal
men from the Government than by persistent
instrumentation of the object of the war and
the purposes of the Administration. They
know that tho Southern asssssins who broke
into open Rebellion aimed at the heart of the
Republic, and that the Government has been
and is seeking to save tho life OF the milton.
They none the less assert that the Administra-
ton has perverted this struggle for existence
into war against Slavery; that the South Is
therefore justified in resistance and that the
North ought not longer to lend its support to
the Government. To foster this notion, Cop
perbead papers and speakers have appealed to
the Northern prejudice against tho negro. De-
s,i,ed and hated 10 the Free States, he needed
only to be charged with the responsibility for
the protrscted struggle against Rebellion to
make him utterly odlous, and the war about
aonally so. We cannot state the case better
than We find it put IN the columns OF q morn
ing Journal of this city, aud We quote accord
ingy:
"A,the North tie ignoydn' aud ur,hakg have como to
Identify negro with al the nsfotunes Of tho var IL
idle semy, show them that tho negro 10 moro sisnoi
against than nnns that 10 the n-f'o master and no. The
negro himself through whom these great souers aud trials
Layo been brought upon HAsr i<y are S1 :" ''a'a
and ovf Of ai hcy anj her a-d ho, 1rser'
c., g. b, lei oaf 10 ,IpgAc, bIn that t,i, a. .dnes {,
D. faTod nar IT, is.ry bsc1cs fbcr pploEed and
s,r-ea.d ~ 10, e bsa>et Of ne n<g,o. 10 relieve
hi nom slavery. aud TO secure him the control Of his own
r they DO .d to tir sny other view
Thcy gradually Identifying him with all thHl
and odious In the Of tho times
sod tho repss.ae. Of tho p.., gradually issrius into the
sIeer,i!9n OF The present"
There could hardly be more just and per-
tinent rebuko OF the scandaous dishonesty of
tho Rebel press at the North in its discussion
of the Slavery issue in this war-yet the above
extract is from the editorial columns Of the
leading Copperhead oracle in this city-the
most indignantly ard lnsolently dlsloya! Of the
Ncw.iork pspcrs-with perhaps one exception
which the lenlent indifference Of tho Government
suffers to eNist-for the present. That paper
has lost no opportunity, "in season and out Of
season." to persuade its Ignorant and unthink.
inp" readers that the Negro is really the
guilty cause OF the Rebellion, and that the
war is prosecuted solely for his benefit. In
order TO make such war still moro hateful,
il has done wha, it could 30 intensity the
preudces against the negro, founded on race
aud color. Its allies in tho West have
labored for the same purpose, and recently
with more conspicuous success than here.
The World cannot yet boas. that il has excited
a bloody assault IN the streets Of New.York
upon dcfsn-eless men and women, guilty only
of tho crime of black skin. 1t must yield
the palm Of infamy for tho present to such
papers ne The Detroit Free Press, by whose
inilammatory appeals the mob in that city was
reused to violence. But though The Press was
the nearest agent in this CHASTITY business, the
real responsibility belongs to the whole of the
disloyaI faction which that paper represents.
In spirit ana purpose and character it was II
Copperhead mob
Ii hos long been obvious that the Rebel De-
rnocrncy meant TO shrink from nothing which
might help TO divide the North, embnrrass the
Government and aid the Rebellion. They
proclamation Of treason, from the diffusion of
treasonable doctrines to the verge Of civil war
in the still loyal States, from pestllcnt poti-
cal receptions TO riot, arson and murder. The
mob at Detroit was virtually plotted ut Rich
mond, fomented in Newiork, and led by
Democratic ruflans, the allies of Jefferson
Davis. There was nothing in the circumstances
to account for it, Ii apparently began IN an
attempt to take from the custody of the lawful
Acknowledgement negro, but-a Spanish In.
dim, who never even associated with tho
blacks, who had been guilty of horrible out.
rage on % white girl. Fooled in this attempt,
thcy turned their fcrocIy against tho negroes,
who were totally innocent Of any connection
with the crime or criminal. brutally abused
unreuistlng men and women, burned thirty
houses. aud for hours, unchecked by civil or
military control, ravaged the streets of Detroit,
and roted in the most barbarous and frightfu
crimes.
II the leading Democratic organs endeavor to
deny their direct completely with these cowardy
ourages, we answer that it matters little
whether they organized the mob. They organ
lied The hatred of tho negro which inspired
tho sob, and they will continue to nhamc tho
same prejuices and passions to make the Govern
men. and tho war unpopular by identifying
both with the cause Of tho blacks alone. They
mean also to augment tho distrust of the
Southern negroes whose alliance is ono chief
hope of tho Republic and to make it impossi.
IL. L. ..a..A THAR NoYdiaI an.onarakinn