Year: 1863

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a few unhung villains-the refuse and
oascourings Of tile Copperhead pary-the
men whose passions outstrip their sense,
whose discretion is, if mathematically re-
presented, an uncertain quantity-the men
who have everything to gam and nothing
to lose by popular com1notions and blood
shed in the strccts-thc men to whom poll
tics is q game, and patriotism is, as was
represented by Burke, the last refuge Of
scoundrels- -endeavored yesterday to make
demonstration against the Government
on account Of the suppression
Of the Chicago Times, and against the
TRIBUNE as the representative and mouth
piece Of the popular and loyal sentiment
Of the Northwest At an early hour in
the morning hand-bill calling upon the
*:ftiends Of free speech to meet, this CAST
evening, in front Of the Tines Office" to
take the act OF suppression into considera-
lion, was circulated in the city, and with
it went the open threats that the result Of
the gathering would be the quick destruc-
ton Of our establishment, and, after the
rage Of the mob was sharpened BY
n feast Of horrors here, that the other
loyal journals Of the city should also be
silenced. Emissarics from the Tines office,
and from the places Of the secret meeting
Of the Knights Of the Golden Circle, were
sent abroad to stir up the bad clements Of
our society, and bring On the violence that
the conspirato,s had threatened. a second
1andbin was sent abroad, in which blood
shed was invited; and those who scat
tered it were full Of money, with which
the dens and groggeries in which it
was LEFT, were made to pour out their
fiery additions to the popular excitement
that the act of the Government had
created; and under the influence OF bad
whisky and worse passions, the infu-
rated men who were stirred By these base
appeals were ready to swear that the hour
Of revolution and vengeance had come :;
and that the mustered thousands of the
REASONABLE bands must put themselves in
~'the field. Whatever ingenuity could sug-
!gcst us the means Of provoking riot was
attempted. Fortunately, among the leaders
ofthe opposition party, though. pure love
Of country was wholly replaced by in
tense and bitter pa1tizanship, discretion
WAS uppermost and to their exertions and
to the vigorous preparations Of the friends
Of the Government to meet any emergency
that might arise, the preservation Of the
peace is due. And fortunately the
irresponsible Migrants, who hoped in q pc
1iod Of general pillagc, to gain some adj
vantagges, Of personal or pecuniary char
acter, were disappointed Of their prey. We
owe no thanks to them; but to tue reason
able men Of the party Of which these poor
fools are the fag end, the city, and
perhaps the country at .large, arc
indebted ltr tho Quiet and
order which characterized the proceedings
Of the night Of the indignation meeting
winch took rank and fragrant treason rm-
der its protection, and which resounded
the loud defiance Of the Government, that
the suppressed organ Of JEFF Davis has al
ways proclaimed, we have little to
say If the men who took a
prominent part therein, can re-
concile their action to the demands Of
patriotism, and the obligations Of duty
duty doubly binding in these days Of na-
tional ca1amity-we hare little right to
complain. Their denunciatons were cx-
pected; their hostility to the loyal cause
was known; hence their expressions of
sympathy viii, the enemies who keep up
the fire-in-the-rear on our army that is
facing the foe, will have little public
weight. We will say for them that their
speeches we're quite as moderate as we
could have expected; and that their whole
programme was toned down evidently by
the magnitude Of the undertaking that
they have in hand. 1t becomes them to
look well to the direction in which their
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