Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-05
The statement Of am Eye witness, &c.

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+ To the Editor OF, the Enquirer M ,-r.
We arrived at Dayton on the morning
train from the North. On our way to the
hotel, bells sounded the alarm of fire. As we
J neaTed the principal streets, shouts of ''mob,
mob,' saluted our ears, followed by cries OF
'the Empire office Is being mobbedh-an ex-
clamation which seemed, to be unusually
popular with the peddlers upon the streets
Approaching the Empire Office, we discover
ed the whole cause oD alarm, which brings
us to the particulars. lt4'
An article In the Enlptre Of the ID, refer
ing to the Sixty-third regiment, had given
Offense. Misconstrued, exaggerated and dis
torted by the Abolitionists, 1t was resolved
to gather posse of furloughed soldiers for
the purpose of removing all opposition to
| the JOurndL-a cOnsummatiOn most s'de-
voutly to be wished" Thirty or forty of
these Burroughs" excited by liquor, and
led on by the enemies oflthe Union, were
induced to attack the Empire office at
| time when it was well known all RESPONSE
BILE parties were absent-at dinner.
Mr.. Tom Hubbard, one of the propritors,
was in the room of the second story at the
time the rioters entered, and demanded their
business. He was Immediately assaulted
and, in defending his person, knocked some
three or four of his assailants down. Others
rushed to the scene, and in his attempt to
escape, Mr.. II. was thrust rudely from the
window, falling q distance of some twenty
or thirty feet. He was carried to the office
of physician insensible, and badly injured.
Stoves, types, cases, and other portable ma
terials, were thrown into the street, and
power-presses demolished; but, luckily, the
newsrooms escaped uninjured.
This completed, the mob gathered round
their leaders and followed them to the Court
House, where repeated calls brought Capt.
Badger of the Forty-fourth o. " l., to the |
stand. He delivered himself Of the follow
ing patriotic speech, which deserves to be |
recorded: ...... ...,... r.. |
.-r SPEECH. |
"Fellow citizens, [hiccup,l by the great |
God, and Resurrector of every body, swear
l am responsible for all this, Tcheers!1 God |
d-n you, led this whole thing. These
men are under my control, [cheers,l and l |
am responsible, [cheers.] Cd d-n you,
two hundred veterans, such as we are, are |
worth one thousand citizens, [cheers.l
There is no line of distinction between the
Administration and the Government, |
[cheers;l and tell you, by Cd, if any ac-
tion is taken against me and my men here,
the city of Dayton shall suffer-
This man belongs to Springfield, is pseudo
Captain in the Forty-fourth o. V. l., and
wears uniform which the Democrats of
DAYTON purchased for him. .10 =
He was followed by a person known as
Robert G. Corwine, renegade of Cincin-
natl, who, peCtifogged out Or your city. isi
ekeing outa sort of a living by attending
to ha6eGs corpus cases in hecounty jail. He
said to the crowd, drunk as they were, that
he had been Union man ever since this
war began. (But never betore-REP.) He
had done all he could to send soldiers to
the field; he had never gone himself for
uarious reasons; he respected the soldier,
but this business was wrong; let the law
take its course, and all would be right. No
one had suffered more from the Empire than
he had, but it will be all right. The En-
pire was mob in itself, and ought to be p,.t
doom; but let the law take It's course.-t
[Cheers.] f.s,r ,o4,47 a.,fTTl
The crowd here rushed once more upon
the Empire office, but were met by the DEM
bers, well armed and prepared. n - : sE- i