Year: 1863

JOuTHd6i no one lnere mas contributed
so largely in the great work of over
throwing the Government and establish
ing slave despotism upon the ruins.
The favorite organ of the Irish Catho-
lies, the Freeman S Journal has enjoyed
peculiar facilities for fomenting discord
in the North, and no one can read the
paper without being convinced that all
the ingenuity of its editors and cores
pondents is taxed for the accomplish
ment of that purpose. Every leading
article teens with abuse of the Govern
ment and denunciation of the war; every
communication is foul with falsehoods
calculated to excite the prejudices of
that class of our citizens, who, it must
be confessed, are controlled too much by
their prejudices. The most incendiary
appeals crowded the Freeman'S JournaL
for months, until at last the desired effect
was produced, and blind, infuriate mob,
its hands dripping with innocent blood,
ragged through the streets of New York
smoking ruins and mutilated corpses
marking its pathway.


The object expected to be gained by
the mob, which the Journal contributed
so largely to arouse, is readily under
stood. That paper has insisted, editori-
ally and by communications, that the
rebels can never be subdued, and it
hoped that a great riot in New York
would create such diversion in favor of
the sinking cause of the traitors,
that our Government would be compelled
to acknowledge their independence, as
it would require the use of all its power
to preserve order at home. Simultane-
Gus riots in Albany, Boston and other
cities, indicate the depth of the Infamous
plot and the narrowness of the escape
made by our Government 1t was its
good fortune that the insurrection
planned by the rebel sympathizers, and
fostered by the Freenlan'S Journal, Gin
cinnati Enquirer and other papers of
that character, 1cGS W-timed The news
of the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hud
son, and the defeat of Lees army, had
been received, and the Government and
the people were so invigorated thereby
that they were prepared to face new
dangers from however an unexpected
quarter they might come. Had the in
surrection in New York city taken place
few weeks earlier, when General Lee
was threatening the Capital of Pennsyl-
vania, the National Capital, and the
principal cities on the seaboard; when
Gen. Grant seemed to be putting forth
herculean efforts in vain; when General
Banks was enveloped in gloom, his com.
muncations interfered with, and the
safety of New Orleans itself endangered;
had, we say, the insurrection broke out
in New York at such a time, who is pre-.
pared to affirm that it would have been
so easily crushed, or that it might not
have proven the fatal stab that robbed
the Union of life?


That the plot of the conspirators mis-
carried does not in the least mitigate the
character of their crime. They are as
guilty of the destruction of the Republic
as though their infamous plot had sue
ceeded in all its parts The Freeman
Journal tried to produce an outbreak
long before it occurred and it was aided
in this work by sympathizers with trea
son in all parts of the country who la
Dor to largely increase its circulation


At the beginning of the war the Free
mans Journal had very limited circu
lation in this part of the country. A
few Irish Catholics constituted its entire
list of subscribers. In the parts of Ken
tucky adjoining our city it had, compar
atively, no circulation at all The Jour
nal, it will be remembered, took a deci
ded stand against the suppression of th'
rebellion at the outset, and to such al
extent did it endeavor to harass the Ad
ministration and defeat it's plans for th'
suppression ofthe rebellion, that Mr.. Lin
coin felt impelled to suppress the infa
nous concern, which was done for sever
al months. The President in suppressinl
it, acknowledged its power for evil, ant
no sooner was it reinstated than rebe
sympathizers all over the country mad'
haste to swell its circulation. In ou
own city, the names of new subscriber
were forwarded, every one of whom ar
known as such bitter enemies of the Ad
ministration, that they can't in the yer.
nature of things be friends of the Gov
ernment. All they desired to know wa!
that the paper was regarded as dan