, 1864-12-10
The lncendfary Plot fu New York
Hn1E Every Wotlser's Son Of the In

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from the Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 81
The universal Yankee natipn is asitatcd.
Such an excitement has not oycrtaken that
people for many years. "a black valise,"
Ike wafer unto mad dog, throws all New
York into fits. It is worth the liberty. md
before long 1t will be worth the life, Of q man
70 oe owner or occupier Of q black yaltsc.
reHard OF twenty-five thousand dollars il
| offered BY the city," and proprietors ofhotels
In public have unanimously whereased and
! resolved that many hotels were fred on the
18th and 2Gth instants, and that reward of
SDU0 be offered by the N. 7. 81. X. S., or
society for the safe keeping Of New York ho-
te,a1 tes from TIE lnsendla1y devilment Of wicked
man visiting The navy yards. The ycry fires
Of 1ell are said to shoulder in d black yolIse
-pne sphorus, turpentine; Greek fire. fulmi-
nate Of mercury, and another combustlble
WHICH some Northern rebel has invented
lhat resembles common coal. No man is
safe with blach yalise-that stock has
greatly fallen, and has injured tho yalue of
black leathef trunks, boots, brid1c-rcins, llar-
nees--all things resembling a<black yallse are
regarded as suspicious. This is the people
that nave started ont a-conqucring, and are
now frightened into duck fits By sharing
diary plot I" Didn't they fire On Fort Snmter
Where hoated the '.old F1age" 4 morality
that does not restrain violence to he emblem
Of the best Government, &C." viii hardly
oe PROOF against the sin Of burning hotels.
Nothing can be clearer than the proof Of
AZ. Dasis' completely with the burning OF
New York. We have never read .nyt1Ana
more truly Tankeeish than this whoie ntf1ir
We arc very glad to- sec that all Southern
1eingess are required to register. If General
Oa1 1fft hd.g Ge1n, he trin 10 wrtict TO our
9nrea 1na Mry y ars ct e <o'aray .stas., scao,
ing hofeas. Hong estry n4otder's son Of them.
- lFrorn thr Rict7ond Whig Dec. FL
:. We are rather sorry that the man with the
o!hck Vallse commenced his operations IN
New York. We may say that Wc nrc sorrT
ne tried his hand on New York at all-or at
least under present circumstance. Had he
succeeded, =! he would, perhaps. have effected
ctal metropolis Of Yankeedom; bpt It Is mt
atgsainst tue commercial metropolis of Yankee |
dom that southern hostility IL at this' mo- |
gent &ent directed: ahs 1sthere Is my Plase in the
Sost9 So1 & that ought to be spared, that place is
friendly to US, but that It Is nndeniably hos.
tile to Lincoln and his government. Lincoln
Tns beaten just about two to one at the late
election in New York city =; and this fact, let
us interpret McClcllan's views rs We please,
takes tne people Of that city out of the cate
CORY Of those sangninary foes Of the South
who are preaching universal murder aud cx-
termination, and who wildly applaud the
savage warfare waged against this confed-
eracy by such men rs Butler, Sheridan, shcr-
WWan, Iurchn, Payne and Mcneil. New
her disapprohation Of the kind Of warfare that
party urges and that Lincoln's gen
cfals wage. New York may be in favor Of
var but she Wculd conduct war on civilized
principles. and consequently has not made
ntfSe!t liable to that just retribution which
mn fhn~ u. |
We hope, therefore, that the gentleman Of
ne black yalisc will resolve to let New York
'lone, and turn his attention to cities more
deserving Of it-Boston, for in
'tance or Philadelphia. The destruction Of
'iaces like these Would be something like m
hat Yankee armies have committed in the
'outh. It would show that the South has
means Of defending herself against the sys-
EN- OF universal arson employed BY the Yam
Iees, which would prove, perhaps, even more
alcaclous than the direct punishment of
end to enter into any argument as to the
'ghi OF wrong Of this matter. Weknow that
rson Is very wicked thing; brt We know.
kewise, that it ceases to be wicked when
mp!oyed In their oHn defense, by people
no have been made its victims for three long |
'dcracy to the other, the charred and black
ned ruins Of honesteads and towns bear
.stimony to the unsparing ferocitY Of our ]
aemics In the use Of the torch. Int when
le'r own cities are threatened, their own |
roperty impcriled, their own homes in dan
n Of the consuming fire, they discover that j
Fson is very horrible crime. It is dpity ]
icy had not made the discovery sooncf. !
he man with the black valtse is among l
em, and will not be exercised. He is uhi- +
litous. He can be at eight different New
1Fk hotels in one night and there is no rca.
Il why he should not be in half dozen Yau-
e cities at the same time.
They may imagine for moment that they
rc caught him !: but he will elude thcir
asp' and defy their vain efforts either to ar- E
ms are tEea laid 6nt trs cannot help repedtinq
to1sh thaf he tcN not again try to eons4,n3nae :
m in Nt1p York for hc 7,rssr,3f 2 2