The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-03
Correspondence
LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON ID. c. July %. ".


WASHINGTON, ID. c., July %, ".
The almost universal feeling of SYM
pathy for the distressed and famishing
railroad employees and others of the
laboring classes and their families exist
ing here last week, has yielded to one of
unqualified condemnation, quite as gen.
eral. at the excuses of and the wanton
destruction of property, aggregating
many millions, by mobs at many differ
ent points throughout the country, dur
ing the past seventy-two hours, particu
larly in Pittsburg and Baltimore. The
demand for their suppression every
where, grows more imperative as the
first duty demanded by every interest, a
few hours of mob violence having made
it obvious to every rejecting mind that
the very foundations of society are i'm
perilled by Its continuance,and that the
whole structure of civilization is totter-
ing above the black abyss ofcommunism
and absolute anarchy. There has been
no disturbance here and very little evi-
dence of disafection. The moderate
crowd of Saturday about the Baltimore
& Ohio depot was somewhat increased
Yesterday. A few rufiian stragglers
from Baltimore have made their appear
ance from time to time, and when not
directly under the surveillance of the
police, they have made some attempts to
intimidate the employees of the road
who remained on duty about the depot,
usually without success. Excited groups
were plenty upon the street corners all
day yesterday, and others were collected
at the telegraph offices and at the hotels.
Nothing was talked of but the strike and
ofits probable consequences. Opponents
TO every shade of opposition to the re-
sumption policy we're heard expostulat-
ing against it as the parent of all the
evils from which we are suffering and
the prediction was often heard that an
immediate session of Congress would be
called and that the Administration
would change front relative to its finan-
cial programme. Departmental officials
took the alarm Saturday night, and it
was determined to put the Treasury
building in a defensive condition, Sec
retary Sherman being represented as
particularly nervous over the situation,
having imbibed exaggerated notions of
the danger from passing through Balti-
more, not without some difficulty, dur
ing the height Of the excitement, on his
return from his tour up the coast. The
apprehension of the disastrous results
of an attack upon the Treasury under
ordinary circumstances,b by a determined
mob, are amply justified in the minds of
those most familiar with its defenceless
condition. The President came in from
the Soldiers Home, attended church,
and two meetings of the Cabinet, and a
portion of the clerical force of the De-
partmetns were on duty as were some of
the Secretaries most of the day. The |
arrival of two companies of troops by
boat early in the morning from Fortress
Monroe and Ft Foote, had a reassuring
effect but the order commanding the
presence of two national vessels, in ad-
dition to those now here, was counter
manded and they proceeded to Balti-
more instead. The President is repre-
sented as very earnest in his expressions
of a determination to suppress the riot
ers by the employment of all force law
fully at his disposal, but is said not to
have encouraged the belief of an early
call for the meeting of Congress. But
underlying the uniform approval of the
authorities determination to stamp out
the insurrection at whatever cost, there
remains aconviction that the railroad
magnates haye provoked the present |