The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-08-09
Am erican Riots or 1lIslOry.

Chicago knows little of riots, there
having been none of extensive proper
tons in her boundaries, except ths
one just passed. About seven year:
ago there was little bread riot down
on one of the river streets, where a
crowd broke into provision store OF
two: and some twenty-three years
ago there was a demonstration which
was then known a. 1.-THE beer riot. 7
Scarcely any other efforts to establish
a mobocracy have ever been made.
The metropolis of New York has
not been as free from the spirit of out
lawry and communism as other Amer
lean municipalities. New York has
suffered from the depredations of not
less than dozen marked disturbances
of the riot order. In l7I2 there was a
negro riot, the result of rare prejudice,
in which ten white men were killed,
with as many negroes. and which re-
suited in the execution OF nine more
blacks and the transportation of nu-
merous Others. II was great riot for
the number Of the inhabitants, The
main part of the present New York
being then q swamp. 1t was put
down by British bayonets. In 1854
another trouble with the blacks led to
white riot against them, and the
shedding of considerable blood. In
l165 the Stamp Act riot, which was
the first indication of revolution
against British authority, came off
In l7as there was a hospital riot, in
which the militia killed a number in
a mob that had arisen to punish med
ical students who were supposed to he
in the business of body-snatching for
the purposes of dissection. In 1891
there was an election riot, In which
the Jackson DULLES attempted to in
timidate the Wings from voting, but
were driven off by squadron of Gov
ernment cavalry. In 1887 New York
had her first and last bread riot. Food
was high and labor scarce, and, led
~ one Moses Jacques, a rampant
communist, the mob element charged
on stores and destroyed property until
they saw bayonets coming, when
they fled precipitately. In ls34-G
there occurred what was known as
the Abolition riot, growing out Of the
slavery question, Ia which much
blood was stirred and butlittle spilled.
Ii is needless to say that the move
.ment was against the Abolitionists,
who We're prosecuted for their belief.
fhe Astor-place riot was In lS4g, and
arose by reason of rivalry existing be-
tween the two actors, Forrest and
Macready. In this strange uprising
of jealous theatrical forces, which was
interfered with by the militia, TWEEN
~ persons were killed and many
wounded. In 1857 riot arose be.
tween the Dead Rabbits and the
Roach Guards, rival factions in a
Sixth Ward of New York, resulting
in a pitched battle, which was fought
all one day, causing the death OF
nine persons and the serious wound
ing Of scores. In 1858 came the MEM
orable draft-re-istance riot, when a
mob attacked the enrolling offices,
overran the city, killed neg roes, burned
an orphan asylum, attempted to burn
the Tribune office, danced in the
houses and on the pianos of Repub-
iican citizens, and committed num-
berless depredations until the regular
soldiers put stop TO the proceedings
by killing so many of the mobbers
that no one ever took the pains to
count up the number. The last riot
In New York was in 1871, when forty
persons were killed and many wound
cd, rs the result Of the Orangemen
and Catholic difficulties. At tho pres
ent time in New York there is little
demonstration Of sympathy with the
,trikersof the country, though the
presence Of troops is considered need
iul against contingencies.
In other cities of the United States
besides New York, as in Chicago, ex-
perience in rioting is almost exclu-
sively confined to the uprisings Of the
past few days. One notable exception,
however, was the terrible anti-Catho-
lie riot, some thirty years ago, in
Philadelphia, when many were killed,
several churches burned. and other
horrors were witnessed-all the result
Of bigotry and fanaticism That was
one of the bloodiest and most terrible
riots that ever occurred in this eonn-
try. GicaQo ,you, nal.