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RIOTS, ETC. 



ROBINSON, EDWARD. 



the rioters refuse to give obedience to my request, then 

 show them no quarter whatever. 



Respectfully yours, DAVID TOD, 



Governor of the State of Ohio. 



EXECUTIVE DEPABT.MENT, COLUMBUS, t 

 June 16A, 1868. $ 



To the men who are now assembled in Holmes county 

 for the purpose of using armed force in resisting 

 t/ie execution of the laws of the National Govern- 

 ment : 



I have heard, with pain and mortification, of your 

 unlawful assemblage ; and, as governor of the State to 

 which you owe obedience, and as the friend of law and 

 order, as well as the friend of yourselves and your fam- 

 ilies, I call upon you to at once disperse and return to 

 your quiet homes. 



This order must be immediately complied with, or 

 the consequences to yourselves will be destructive in 

 the extreme. 



The (iovernment, both of the State and nation, must 

 and shall be maintained. 



Do not indulge the belief, for a moment, that there 

 is not a power at hand to compel obedience to what I 

 now require of you. Time cannot be given you for 

 schemes or machinations of any kind whatever. 



I have felt it my duty to give you this timely warn- 

 ing ; and having done my duty, sincerely hope you 

 wfll do yours. DAVID TOD, Governor. 



In. the meantime it was reported that over 

 1,000 men from Holmes, Knox, Coshocton, 

 Summit, and other counties, armed with squir- 

 rel rifles and revolvers, were in camp at Napo- 

 leon, and regularly organized. On the arrival 

 of the U. S. troops in the county, a large forpe 

 under the command of Colonel Wallace was 

 distributed in squads throughout the township. 

 Several collisions took place between small 

 parties of the soldiers and the insurgents, with- 

 out serious results, until a committee of the 

 most influential citizens of the county under- 

 took to compromise the difficulty without fur- 

 ther bloodshed. This was finally done, on the 

 terms that the four men who had been engaged 

 in driving out Enrolling Officer Robinson should 

 deliver themselves up for trial by the United 

 States court, and that Provost-Marshal Drake 

 should be allowed to arrest nine persons who 

 had taken an important part in the rescue. 

 With this understanding the soldiers were 

 withdrawn, and the insurgents dispersed. The 

 arrests were made, as agreed upon, without 

 difficulty. 



Riots occurred during the year in. portions 

 of North Carolina under rebel rule. On the 

 18th of March a mob of soldiers' wives at Sal- 

 isbury, being impelled by hunger, armed them- 

 selves with hatchets, and made an attack on 

 the railroad depot, where flour was stored. 

 The agent in charge, finding remonstrance use- 

 less, gave them ten barrels of flour. The wo- 

 men also carried off several bags of salt. An- 

 other flour operator bought off the enraged wo- 

 men with ten barrels, and another with three. 

 A dealer in molasses surrendered all he had of 

 that article; two or three other merchants 

 were compelled to give up provisions in the 

 same way. Later in the month disturbances 

 of a similar character, in which women alone 

 were concerned, occurred at High Point, near 

 Raleigh. 



On the 9th of November, a party of soldiers 

 belonging to Benning's (Georgia) brigade, pass- 

 ing through Raleigh, attacked the oflice of the 

 " Standard " newspaper, throwing the type in- 

 to the street, and doing considerable other dam- 

 age. On being addressed by Governor Vance, 

 the soldiers desisted from the work. On the 

 following day, by way of retaliation for the as- 

 sault on the " Standard " office, a mob of about 

 200 citizens attacked the " State Journal " of- 

 fice, broke its presses, and knocked its type into 

 " pi." The " Raleigh Register " was also 

 doomed to destruction, but was spared at the 

 earnest solicitations of the governor, .Mayor 

 Harrison, and others. 



A women's bread riot occurred in Mobile on 

 the 5th of September. (See ALABAMA.) 



Richmond was also visited by a women's 

 bread riot, of which none of the Southern pa- 

 pers give a detailed account. It was reported 

 that 5,000 women were engaged in it,, and that 

 not only, flour stores and bakers' shops were 

 cleared out, but also dry goods, millinery, and 

 fancy goods stores. The riot was finally check- 

 ed, partly by force and partly by promises that 

 bread would be freely distributed to the hun- 

 gry. A Richmond paper stated that 2,900 

 loaves per month were distributed free to the 

 needy families of soldiers in the field. 



Popular disturbances of less importance oc- 

 curred at several other places both at the North 

 and South. 



ROBINSON, EDWAKD, an American philolo- 

 gist and biblical scholar, born in Sonthington, 

 Conn., April 10th, 1794, died in New York, 

 Jan. 27th, 1863. He was graduated at Hamil- 

 ton College, N. Y., in 1816, remained there for 

 a year as tutor, and in 1821 removed to Ando- 

 ver, Mass., where he studied Hebrew and be- 

 came associated with Prof. Stuart of the theo- 

 logical seminary in the translation of some text 

 books from the German and in the instruction 

 of his classes. In 1826 he went to Europe, spent 

 several years in travel and study, and in 1828 

 was married to Miss Theresa A. L. von Jakob, 

 daughter of Prof, von Jakob, of Halle, and 

 widely known in Europe and America by her 

 writings published under the nom de jdiime of 

 " Talvi." Returning to America in 1830, he re- 

 ceived the appointment of professor extraordi- 

 nary of sacretl literature and librarian at An- 

 dover, which he re?igned in 1833 and removed to 

 Boston. Four years later he was appointed pro- 

 fessor of biblical literature in Union Theologi- 

 cal Seminary of the city of New York, which 

 position he held until his death. Previous to 

 entering upon the active duties of his profes- 

 sorship he made a visit to Palestine, and in com- 

 pany with Dr. Eli Smith, devoted a year or more 

 to a minute and careful geographical survey of 

 that country. At Berlin he embodied the re- 

 sults of his visit in a narrative published sim- 

 ultaneously in Europe and America under the 

 title of " Biblical Researches in Palestine, and 

 in the Adjacent Countries, a Journal of Travels 

 in the year 1838," (3 vols. 8vo, Halle, London 





