Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-28
The GreenxiIle nIobs.

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| About week ago we published, in our
local columns, the particulars of a desper-
ate riot in Greenville, Darke county, got
tenup by soldiers instigated by the Aboli-
| tion Loyal Leaguers of that town. Our ac-
count was given from the report of per-
fectly reliable gentleman, who witnessed
the affair." and was entirely Trustworthy
and accurate. The report has since been
corroborated by other gentlemen from that
vicinity. That depraved and reckless sheet
the Cincinnati Commercial, attempted to
doubt the truth of the account, and it has,
after weeks effort, secured somebody to
give different version of the story, but
which does not materially differ as to the
facts from the account given by us. The
Commercial interlards its account with jo-
cose remarks of approval of the soldiers
and Leaguers, and senseless denunciation
of the victims of the rioters. 1t totally
misrepresents the origin of the difficulty
by falsely asserting that the Democrats of
Greenville began the attack on the soldiers,
and by falsely declaring that the Demo-
Gratis contemplated the ''cleaning out" of
company of armed soldiers. Such self
evident and audacious lie could be uttered
by no other sheet than the Commercial. The
idea that a dozen unarmed citizens contem-
plated an attack upon company of armed
soldiers is worthy of the assignation de-
partment.
The Commercial says the soldiers did not
destroy the office of Hon WIN. ALLEN, that
"their friends" the Loyal Leaguers, did
that part of the job. That is exactly what
our informant stated. The soldiers pro-
tected the Loyal Leaguers while they were
sacking and robbing the office of fellow
citizen. The Abolitionists of Greenville,
under the protection of an armed mob,
may possibly have the courage to assassi-
nate man in his Office, or cut the throat of
a sleeping child, and it is also possible that
the Cincinnati Commercial would regard
such performance as worthy of its lauda-
tions; but the civilized and sober minded
people of the State viii think otherwise.
The ghastly attempt of that paper to make
joke out of the fact that the law was held
in contempt in village in this State for
three or four days, that an armed mob pa
raded the streets crazy with whisky, that
the mob destroyed property, maltreated
citizens, insulted women and suspended the
business of the town-all at the instance of
two or three craven fanatics, who wanted
to wreak their private vengeance or pillage
amid the general confusion-is worthy a
Sdrs cutOtey.
The last two years have developed several
newspapers in this country which have dis
graced the noble calling of the press by
pandering to the basest passions of their
partisans by justitying crime, approving
assassinations and the overthrow of law,
and with despicable cowardice, crawling in
the dirt before popular fanaticism, frenzy
and folly. OF these papers the Cincinnati
Commercial has been the first and most de-
praved. Conducted ON the one idea ofmaking
money, its appreciation of riots, like the
publication of designations, is merely q
question of lucre. 1t gravitates toward in
cendiarism, mob-law, the destruction o.
property, the murder of citizens, and gen.
eral depravity, as naturally as did the
French press during the Reign of Terror
and perhaps for the same reason-there il
MARAT at the head of it.