Year: 1863

The Niggerhead and Copperhead Organs


ON the Riots.


Now that the riots, which have ragged in
this city during the past three days, are SUBJ
siding, the violence of the niggerhead and cop
perhead organs is on the increase The Tribune,
Times and Post are abusing the copperheads as
the cause of all this trouble, and the World,
Ne,os and Express are equally certain that the
niggerheads provoked the disturbance, and are
thus the originators Of the riots. There is .
great deal of truth in each of these charges, as
we shall take occasion to show at the proper
time. 1t is extremely laughable, however, to
see with what unanimity both of these factions
assail the HERALD, because we take no part in
their quarrel, but leave these newspapers to


fight it out like the Kilkenny cats.


The World opens this newspaper war with
the following sixty-four pound shot:-"We
charge it, therefore, plainly upon the radical
journals Of this city that they, and chiefly
they. have educated the people Of New
York to the pitch Of passion and the
extremes of desperate feeling which have
cleaned out 80 luridly and so terribly
upon us in these last sad days." This is tauto.
logical, but severe, prosy, but ponderous, and is
answered by the following hand grenade,
which poor Greeley flings from Windust's restau-
rant, the Tribune Office being pretty effectually
bunged up:-"No man who reads the editorial
which we reprint in another column can fail to
see how openly the World assumed the leader
ship Of the rioters as well as secretly fostered
their plans" The Post blazes away in the
same strain:-"Let the people of the city and
country remember that when q mob set i.ss ai.s TO
the city, and murdered men in open day, it was
democratic paper which printed articles in
citing to violence" The Ne,os, feeling Its
corns hurt By this missile Indignantly replies:--
1--WE summon the facts and their record to at
test that the black republican party, Its minis
ters and organs, are alone responsible for
whatever misfortune and disgrace have fallen
upon our city" The niggerhead Times and
the copperhead Cypress keep up the war Of
words in their usual styles; and so these mis-
chievous papers all scandalously attempt to
make political capital out of the riots before
the rioters are fairly suppressed, and accuse
each other of faults for which all of them are
more or less responsible.


The Tribune, however, cannot resist the
temptation to throw dirt at the HERALD, and
poor Greeley writes an article on the back Of
greasy bill Of fare, and sends it to his paper
from the back cellar of the restaurant in which
he is confined. The article says that we chad
not one editorial word concerning the mob"
and that nothing which we could have said
VIC c;O oil
Greeley might better refrain from interfering
with the HERALD. A couple of years ago,
when he thought the mob was on his side, he
tried hard to incite it to tear down our Office
Now he has had a taste of the dish he prepared
for us, and we do not wish to aggravate his
misfortunes Let him keep perfectly cool,
and repair his broken windows as
hiding place When we have put down the
rioters we shall devote our attention to the
Tribune and Hx upon poor Greeley the stigma,
which all his hallooing will not efface,
of having been one Of the chief agents
In the work of exasperatfng and melting the
mob. The Times, on the other hand, does net
complain because we said nothing, but is ex-
ceedingly aggrieved because one Of our re-
porters called the rioters people" Well,
they are people, are they not? They have
heads, bodies, legs and arms; they speak, hear,
see and feel; they are possessed Of minds and
souls, and if their intelligence is not very great,
it is at least equal to that Of the niggerheads
and the editors of the niggerhead organs We
propose to quell the rioters; but we do not
intend to deny that they are human beings; and
II Greeley and Raymond are foolish enough to
undertake to assume and defend any such
opinion we shall be happy to refute their argu-
ments when the riots are over and our space is
less occupied