Albany Evening Journal

“ Other despatches received to-day represent that the trouble is caused by dissatisfaction among the workmen, who have been cheated out of their dues by a Democratic Government Contractor, and that with their customary readiness to saddle their own sins on other people, and to turn them to political advantage, Democratic authorities proclaim it to be a rising of Slaves fomented by Abolitionists!
There are but few Slaves in that part of Virginia, and still fewer Abolitionists. It is sheer madness in either to engage in armed conflict with a community overwhelmingly hostile. ”

“ A United States Armory is situated here, employing 250 hands, and turning out eight or nine thousand small arms annually. There are usually kept on hand some 80 or 90,000 stand of arms, enough to make a mob that has seized them a formidable foe. ”