Year: 1863

The Recent Rsiga Of Terror and ths Ia


cendisry Press.


The political press sf thk city. having done


much to cause and TO encourage the recent riots,


now seems anxious to have them renewed. The


niggerhead organs are evidently trying to make


the conscription ss onerous as possible, and the


copperhead organs neglect no means 10 render
1t odious to the masses. Both these Glasses Of


inoendiary newspapers publish articles calcu-


lated rather to irritats than to soothe the III


feeling now prevalent Some Of the results Of


their teachings they saw last week, and may, II


they continue, shortly see again. We have for
. long time predicted these results, and are


consequently not surprised ct them.


1t Is . very noticeable feature Of the course
Of the niggerhead papers that they lose no op-


portunity to give aid and comfort to the rebels.


This fact wss amply illustrated last week, when
the Tribune, 7smss and Post We'd with each


other In representing the outbreak In this city
as the result Of rebel plot and part Of
deep laid rebel plan for raising revolution
in the North In favor Of JeG Davis.
If these abolition assertions were true,
what greater encouragement could JEFF.
Davis desire! Overwhelmed a. the rebel lead
ers must have been by their succession Of signal
defeats, what other news could have brought
them such comfort and consolation as the intel
ligence Of an immense popular uprising at the
North in behalf of their confederacyf This is
undoubtedly what the abolitionists intend.
They know that the rebels are beaten. They
know that unless something b done to prolong
the war the Union will be restored before their
conspiracy to abolitionize every seeded State
can be accomplished They know that to pro-
long the war it is necessary to inspirit JEFF
Davis and weaken our armies. They have tried
to do this by procuring foreign Intervention, and
have failed. They have tried to make bargains
with the rebel leaders, as in the case Of Conway
and Mason, and have failed. As last resort,
they have tried first to incite and then to mis-
represent popular disturbances at the North.
Here, logically and practically, we arrive at the
motives of the niggerheads In exciting riots by
violent and abusive articles and in assuring the
rebels that the rioters are led by JEFF. Davis
agents, sympathize with JefT Davis rebellion,
and belong to a vast conspiracy to aid Jetf Da-
vis' sinking cause. These motives are to keep
up the war until the last cent is stolen from the
national treasury and the last slave is trans
formed into an abolition voter.


It is almost unnecessary to say that the in
cendiary and reasonable statements of the
niggerhead organs are untrue. JEFF. Davis has
no party in this city except the abolition party.
The masses Of our people are thoroughly loyal.
They have given more money and sent more
men to the war than the people Of any other
two cities in the country. They have supplied
and sustained the finances Of the government,
the sinews Of the war. Why, the very classes
said to have been engaged in the recent riots
have contributed more soldiers to the Union
armies than all the niggerheads in the nation
in spite Of poor Greeley's bombast about the nine
hundred thousand radicals he promised to send
and did not. The recent exhibitions Of popular
discomfort were not caused by any hostility to
the Union. They were fomented by the copper
head organs for political purposes, and by the
scandalous, insulting and abusive articles in the
abolition papers, and especially In the Tribune,
Times and Post, whose editors appear to hate
the white race a. intensely as they adore the
black The abolition leaders are aware that thsir
only hope Of maintaining political power is BY
the votes Of enaneipated negroes. Their party
has made such dismal .fasco in its attempts
to administer the government that white voters
can no longer be deluded into giving IL sup
port Consequently the abolitionists are en-
deavoring to manufacture negro voters, and
i was the popular but misguided apprehension
Of this scheme which led to the murder Of the
unfortunate negroes last week. During this
war thousands Of blacks have been sacrificed
to tho ambition OF the abolitionists, and the
poor fellows who were hung during the riots
were but added to the hecatomb. But while
we fix the chief responsibility Of the recent
disturbances where itjustly belongs, we do not
absolve the copperhead journals and the politi-
clans, from Governor Seymour down, Of their
share Of the blame. The copperhead papers
should not have given occasion for the out
break by harping upon and mirepre@nting the
Conscription act for political effect, and Cover
nor Seymour ought to have arranged with the
Washington authorities to furnish the quota Of
this State by volunteering, as he could readily
have done, and so have relieved us of the draft
altogether As It was, however, both nigger-
head and copperhead organs sowed the wind,
and they came very near reaping the whirl-
wind few days ago. If they now persist in
another storm they will not so easily
escape. ertuN.,. "


BRnIsu CHrvALRY--MoRE HELP FOR THE
il the Quixote Of nations. She
il ever Bsady to break q lance in behalf Of the
But, unlike her Spanish model, her
chivalry and her interests 60 hand in hand.
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