The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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An Unmitigated Outrage by a New York mob.

--It is currently reported in town, and generally believed, says the Augusta Chronicle, as the report comes through an authoritative channel, that Mr. G. B. Lamar, a native of Georgia, but for many years past doing business in New York, where he formerly occupied the position of President of the Bank of the Republic, was recently required by a mob to give $500 for the support of the families of volunteers, and upon his refusal, he was taken hold of and threatened with instant hanging on the nearest lamp-post. Under this threat, and completely overpowered, Mr. Lamar consented to give the money, remarking that he did so only on compulsion by superior force, whereupon the mob required that it should be $1,000, and Mr. Lamar was thus held until he gave his check for the latter amount, and a runner was dispatched to the Bank to get the money. When the money was received he was released.