The Monmouth inquirer., 1865-09-21
From the Newark Patriot
General Runyon as a Witness.

Be kind enough to stand up, General. before
the bar of public opinion, and respond to few
straightforward questions. There-don't be
modest-you need fear nothing personal-we
have to do with you only as politician as
the standard bearer of the copperhead party
i'll the present canvass. Perhaps you can be
seen to better advantage if you mount your
dry goods box: it is just such an one as that
on which you stood when, on a memorable &C.
cas;on in SO, you addressed certain g friends y
of yours, who, at the time. were howing for
vengeance upon all loyal men, and fiercey as
saulting, with missiles of every description,
the Office and employees of a certain loyel
newspaper establishment. Do you remember
that terrible night, General-that night upon
which thousands uf your " friends, yelling
like fiends, cursing the Almighty. openly defy.
ing the law and its officers, brandishing deadly
weapons, and vociferating their intention of
destroying property and taking life-surged
through our streets, assaulting unotfending cit
izens, hurrahed for JEFF. Davis and yourself and
with battering ram and boulders dashed in por-
when they had thus vented their rage upon the
building, do you remember how, thirsting for
blood, they ran, yelling like fends as they were,
towards the residence of the proprietor of that
paper; how they assaulted it wi tn stones, and
how they eagerly sought for its occupant that
they might slay him upon his own door sill
Do you remember. also, General, how hard you
labored on the stump to prepare those scoun-
drels for the perpetration ofjust such outragss;
how you taught them they were being oppress-
ed by military despotism, armed resistance to
which was a virtne; how you told them that it
would be necessary for them to march to the
polls with ballot in one hand and pistol in
the other? Oh, you did address them and
persuade them to desst, did youl How did
you do it, General By appealing to them as
loyal men; by telling them that they were
breaking both the laws of man and the laws of
God by telling them that every social out
break in the North was so much aid and COM
fort to the rebels; that a rebel army was even
then upon free territory, laundering away at
the gates of Gettysburg and moving down the
brave boys who dared to stand up in defence of
the good old flag No, General, not word of
the kind fell from your lips You appealed to
them to desist, on the ground that their
playful antics were erpsnsice to the
city. You told them that for every dollars
worth of property they might destroy the city
would be responsible. You Id them further,
that you-you, General Runyon would pro-
ceea to Trenton an the morning and stop the
draft" And when you returned, did you not,
instead of an order to stop the draft, bring
cartridges; and did you not report to your
% friends that the Government was deter
mined to put the draft through had sent Gen
Fitzpatrick to New York for that purpose, and
that now there would be trouble, and you was
qoinq to lears torn? Not one word escaped
your lips, General. as to the fearful struggle
then going on along the border. Not one word
of depreciation did you utter in relation to the
horrors that were even then being enacted by
similar " friends " of yours in the city of New
York. No. How could you? Had you not
yourself opposed the draft that was being en-
forced by your struggling country to enable it
to maintain its very existence! Had you not
counselled disregard of law in your speeches,
and could you expect your deluded friends ;.
to be good men and loyal citizens, when you.
to whom they looked for counsel, only played
upon their prejudices and excited their brutal
naturesl
There--step down for the present, General I;
but before you go, let us say to you, that while
you were thus engaged in aiding fthe rebels,
opponent, Marcus i. Ward, was bending every
energy in the service of his bleeding country.
Binding up the wounds, relieving the wants,
and looking after the families Of our soldier
boys, with no object but to do bis share in the
hour 9f his nations peril. Which of you two,
General, should receive the approval Of Ameri-
can ci.izeus!