Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-07-30
The Great Riot In New York.

Most of our rea.lers arc already aware
Of the fearful scenes which were enacted
in New York City. last week, 10y the most
disgrsceful mob which has ever been
known in America. Several thousand OF
tho low and abandoned wretches who
haunt the filthy dens Of the city. led on
by reckless politicians, who use them as
the machinery with which to carry cleo
tions, for three days defied the laws. and
perpetrated outragcs which almost defy
competition in the bloody annals of the
canaille of Paris. The mad-dog CRY OF
''abolitionist" was no sooner raised, than
men OF the most unsulied character were
beaten into mass of quivering flesh and
hanged to the first lamp-posi; innocent
women and children were shut in their
homes. and burned alive. and even the
manglcd corpse of their victims wer,
subject TO inIignities which ought to red-
lien tho cheek of devils with the blush of
shame. All this. in the 10Th century. and
in enlightened. christianizsd New York!
Posterity will ask. who is TO blame for
these fearful crimes The rabhle seldom
enact such dee,ls.. unless inciied to them
by men shade higher in the social scale.
The riot in New York is not the result Of
the frenzied passion of the mob alone
but it has had deeper origin. From tho
very commencement Of the war. the city
has swarme,l with traitors; for many
years tie slave interest had monorolizsd
large and influential share of the public
press; the Day Book had sown its pesti-
lent here>ies broad cast. and the Herald
had ministered to the lowest snd most
depraved tastes of the vile and low; by the
settling AMI shiny denizens of the Five
Points. every one of whom voted the So
callel Democratic ticket, the city govern
inent hal long been controlled. AMI when
the war was commeaced. it was not
strange tha. the trio of infamous brothers.
the Woods. plotted with thetraitors to be-
tray the city into their hands.
The present fe.rfnl riot is but the legIti-
mate fruit of Coppcrhead teaching. The
draft is mere pretext. mlde use OF by
mon who hate the Unien. and are bent mp
on its destruction. The real rioters are
Fernando and Ben Wood. James Brooks.
and their political allies. The means by
which they have conjnrs,l mp the spirit of
lawless violence, has been the wretchsd
and reasonable press Of New York. sided
and abetted by every Coppcahcad paper
in the nation. -eHi sn ia es'
The folly and im?udence Of calling such
men rs composed the mvidened mob in
New York, CONSERVATIVES" in. jopposi-
tion to such men as David Dudley Field.
and host of others of the same class, is
unequsled. Men of edr,aiion. who have
given to the great commercial metropolis
ell tho character it ever had, who have
been tho founders of it's great put''ic in
stitutions, arc called radical. while tho
grog shops have spewed forth their foul
stew. and the Copperhead press has chris
tened the. steaming mass. conservatives!
How long will it be before the honest
men of the country will sec the truth, and
cut loose from their ambitions and un-
principaled leaders, and stand ~ for their
country and its heaven blessed inssitu-
tions?- Rochssfsr CnyoHisIs. e sa ~