Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-03-04

gang Of some fifteen or twenty soldiers, To-
gether with few individuals ia citizens !
drsss, rushed into the room, and began the
work ofdestroying the job types aud other
materials in the room A rush was made for
our person by one or two Of tho rufiaus with the
exclamation, "God d---n him ! 90 for bim"
As we endeavored to escape through the win.
dow, we were seized aud firmly held Mr..
Thomas Hubbard, who was up stairs in the
news room, unarrned likewise, came down on
hearing the noise and fighting his way
through the crowd, struck the fellow who
had hold of us, which enabled us to escape,
and then be jumping down, the stairs, on the
heads Of the gang who througed it, got out of
the front door. InRvsry few minutes nearly
all the types in the room. were scattered in
promiscuons confusion 90 the floor, tramped
upon and nearly ruined The stove was
seized, and the upper portion Of it thrown
recklessly through the window, at the risk Of
killing one or more Of the crowd below The
Goals were thus scattered on the aoor, and it
was with some effort that the building was
saved from burning These are the simple
facts up to this stage of the riot.
Itwoud be difficult for human ingenuity to
devise more Indignantly false history Of
subsequent events than that given in this
mornings Jourpql
While we concede whatever credit is due
to individual Republicans, named in another
l,toca C,r tbo;r anorts To sunnrasa tba infu-
nous disturbance and restore order, we dis
tnctly brand as a lie the assertion, made in
Ibig head line of the Journal that the "Riot
was queed by Union Citizens 1t was quel-
led by the Democratic city authorities, a.
Democratic Sheriff, and the Democratic peo.
pie, with the aid ot few deserving Republ-
cans, while it was obvious to every body,
from the speech and general demeahot on
the streets of hundreds Of Republicans that
Captain Badger told the truth when he said
that he had abundance Of backing in HE
party. stsHfs0. ~ .t.TH
Captain Badger was permitted to haranRue
soldiers and citizens in a violent and iDham-
| matory speech, and was allowedto go through
f with it, Notwithstanding the presence of the
= Provost Marshal The conduct Of this man,
in the mild language of the Journal was rep
rehensible r. Addressing a mob, in the midst
, of their frenzy, justifying what had been done
= of violence and outrage, and proelsiming
i that he was backed by official authority, and
e by public sentiment, in what he said and IN
t what had been done, elicits from that master
OF vile language aud dirty epithets, who edits
e the journal, nothing severer than that hi'
II conduct was reprehensble r.fs...
"a 1t was this assemblage, gathered together
, by this man, who made the "reprehensible'
address, which caused the deaths and wounds
= which concluded the scenes of the day, Bu
" for this meeting, il is not probable that sin
/ gle shot would have been fred.
lie Mr.. CoRwlN's., address is paraded in tht
le Journal with the design that the imputation,
ot it contains shall go to the world in mitigation
J. OF the outrages of yesterday SO far from
q having abused Mr.. CoRwIN, we may be par
loned for our ignorance Of the existence o
any such man in the city. His losses anC
" his wrongs as well as his name, are frs
40 brought to our nodce:n Ahe Journal Thi
is enough to say concerning his speech
o, Itis new thing in this country, that tn
IL common practice of an audience in making
ly side remarks during the delivery Of a speech
ur "Gres with fury" persons who chance to hea
,s- it, and is heldlas justification for deadly al
Oh sault, in overpoweriug numbers, upon the it
dividua who makes it, Yet such is the pui
~ port of what the Journal has to say on thi
p" head. .f......, ~
', The Sheriff, the Mayor the police, did a
ny that was possible to do-not only to dispers
the mob, but TO prevent the retaliation whie
he was natural, and which, but for the energy
10, these authorities, would have been inevitable
raj And yet it is with the utmost reluctance, thi
ns. the Journal aceords to Mayor GILLESPIE an
Ilv the rest, the merit Of performing their duty
Its asserted by the Journal, that - goC
- police might bays pipped the riot in the bud
W" This, like all the rest of the Journal stat
o' ment, is false. The police had no notice
al this conspiracy, and could have bad none
tn required but very few moments to do Il
md damage that was done in the office and aft
der that was done, the riot was no longer in Il
bud Il was already full bloYn.
,o, The soldiers have had no abuse from Il
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