The following is transcribed from the New York Times, dated July 14, 1863:

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THE MOB AND THE PRESS

 

          The mob last evening broke the windows and demolished the furniture in the counting-room of the Tribune, and attempted to crown their infamous evening broke the windows and demolished the furniture in the counting-room of the Tribune, and attempted to crown their infamous and fiendish ruffianism by setting the building on fire. The prompt arrival and vigorous action of a body of Police interrupted their proceedings, and deprived them of the pleasure of being as brutal as they had hoped and expected to be.

          We have not always agreed with our neighbor on political topics, and have not deemed it wise on grounds of the public welfare to make Slavery and the negro so prominent in these discussions as the Tribune has done. But that is a matter concerning which judgments and tastes may differ. It is intolerable that a mob should undertake by violence and destruction of property to dictate topics for public discussion, or to control the sentiments and utterances of the public Press. When such an issue is forced upon journalists, they must make it their common cause.

          We regret that the Tribune should have suffered in such a shape even the trifling loss which last night's mob inflicted upon them. They had the aid of some among our employes in protecting their property, and shall have it again whenever the invidious favor of the mob shall again release us from the necessity of defending our own.