Mobs targeting pro-secessionist and disloyal newspaper offices

[chubachus]

A rare photographic image of a nineteenth-century urban riot in progress. Sacramento Street east of Montgomery during the course of the disturbance, showing police lined up to thwart the intentions of those bent on destroying a "secesh" newspaper. Charles and Michael De Young apparently scooped up printing and typesetting equipment left in the streets in the wake of riots against Confederate-sympathizing newspapers after Lincoln's assassination, which they used to launch their newspaper The Daily Dramatic Chronicle.

In San Francisco. Source.

Mob in front of office of "State + Union" a disloyal newspaper, Portsmouth, N.H.

Source.

 

[John Hartwell]

The San Francisco demonstration pictured was an angry response to the news of Lincoln's assassination. Note that the newspapers sympathetic to secession had published all through the war. And, the government was protecting them now. There had been some earlier pro/con secession confrontations . See:
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Civil_War_in_Downtown_SF_1860s

 

[Allie]

My husband thinks the bay horse took a dim view of events. Seriously, what is he doing abandoned out there?

 

[Alex Scotland]

Great picture

 

[wilber6150]

The San Francisco demonstration pictured was an angry response to the news of Lincoln's assassination. Note that the newspapers sympathetic to secession had published all through the war. And, the government was protecting them now. There had been some earlier pro/con secession confrontations . See:
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Civil_War_in_Downtown_SF_1860s

Wait, I thought that evil Lincoln shut down all the secession sympathetic newspapers lol

 

[John Hartwell]

My husband thinks the bay horse took a dim view of events. Seriously, what is he doing abandoned out there?

Ask the white horse just up the road ... he's probably doing the same thing.

 

[Northern Light]

Ask the white horse just up the road ... he's probably doing the same thing.

Probably wondering what the he** the stupid humans are doing NOW!