The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-07-21
The Copperhead Rebellion.

The COpperhead Rebellion.
Eg- The Copperhead rebellion, upon
which Southern traitors have relied so
much has been inaugurated at last, and
the work of murder, arson, and pillage
has been going forward for nearly "a week
in the city of New York. The immedi-
ale cause has been the recent speeches of
Gov. SEYMOUR, FERNANDO WooD, and
others of like kidney, and the most
abomiuable incendiary articles in tho e
rebel journals, the World, the Meas, and
the Journal Of Commerce. Even with
the Rebel army devastating Pennsylvan-
ia and threatening New York and the
East, these villainous sympathizers with
rebellion, these organs of treason, have
been appealing to their ignorant, besot-
ted tools, to resist the conscription.-
They have neglected no occasion 10 deny
the right of Congress to pass such law,
and have stopped at no falsehood to in.
duce belief in the utter dishonesty and
partially of those entrusted with the
drawing. The result desired has been
reached. When the Board of Enrolment
for the Ninth Congressional District Of
New York were proceeding with the
drawing on Monday the 18th inst, a
mob collected, evidently by premedita-
aion and concert, attacked the Office with
stones and other missiles, drove out the
officers, beating some Of them unmerci-
fully, Quilted the building, and then set
it on fire, burning the whole magnificent
block in which the Office was located.
They drove away the fremen who desir-
ed to save the building, knocked down
and horribly beat numbers of citizens
and police, and did every act of drunken
demons. The thieves and villains of
that large city joined in and melted to
pillage. and for several days, throug hout
various parts Of the city, this mob rioted
in atrocities equaling in brutality those
which disgraced and made terrible, the
French Revolution. 1t was largely, il
not exclusively, composed of poor ignor-
ant foreigners, whose passions had been
aroused by lying appeals from their par
ty leaders. and infamed by drink. The
animus OF the whole demonstration was
apparent in the cries Of the rioters
against the draft against abolitionists,
and against prominent supporters of the
government. Its infamy was also most
clearly demonstrated in the atrocities
committed against poor, helpless, ino!-
fensive colored men, whose houses were
invaded, were pillaged, destroyed, and
whose persons-the aged. cripple and
the helpless child, equally with the
strong and robust-were beaten and
mangled, even in many instances until
life was extinct. There was no pretence
that these poor people did anything to
invite attack. They were hunted down
to death wherever one showed himself to
the mob, either in his own home, or on
the street, or in public conveyance
passacred because the Copperhead lead
ers and organs Of this infamous mob
have taken every opportunity to arouse
the prejudices of their ignorant. drunken
fellows against the harmless race. These
acts mark the influence and the teach
irgs which sent that mob Of COW
ardly rufians into the streets of the me-
tropolis OF the Union to-pillage and burn,
and to beat, and mangle, and kill help
less men and women, white and black
which made it stand for hours over the
body Of Col. O'BRIEN, and mash his
head. and mangle his body, with clubs
and stones, and boot heels, whenever a
groan or a spasmodic movement Of the
muscles showed that life was not extinct
that sent it TO sack and pilage, and
burn the colored orphan asylum,
turning into the street. and scattering
unprotected, about the city, and tramp
ling upon. the hundreds Of innocent or
phans who had there found protection
and home. There is no mis,aking the
influence which caused these fends to
hurrah for JEFF DAVIS, and curse ADRA.
HAM LIEcoLN--that sent them TO attempt
The destruction Of the Offices of every
loyal paper in tho city. There is no
installing the leaders Of these human
devils, when Governor SEYMOUR openly