Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-25
Additional History and Incidents Of the
RiOt--Uharacter of the Outbreak--The
Authors of the Riot.
rFrop, the N Y Tribune I
THE IRISH.

THE IRISH.
There is a very general excitement and
prejudice against the Irish residents Of cur
city because Of the riotous outrages Of last
week, which, though natural, is tending 10
gross injustice. 1t is true that most of the
Immediate perpetrators of those outrages
we're Of Irish birth or lineage, but it is not
true that all, or nearly all the Irish, nor
even of the Irish Roman Catholics, are
either rioters themselves or sympathizers
with The rioters. On the contrary, we
personally know many Irish Catholics who
are as loyal, as laW-abiding, and as hostile
to all manner of riot and outrage, as any
men on earth. For example, our sixth
and Fourteenth wards, which are pre- emf
nently, predOminsntly Irish, have. not
been disgraced by single outrage, not
even upon their colored residents. And
from every quarter we have testimony
that the industrious, sober, intelligent
Irish-of whom there are thousands among
us-indignantly declined all participation
in the crimes of the grog-shop rowdies and
rufians who have done their worst to dis
grace the Irish name. Nearly all who
we're eye witnesses Of the shameful doings
of last week agree on this point. Mr.. N.
P. Willis. who witnessed the burning, on
Monday afternoon, Of the gun factory in
Second avenue, thus writes in his Home
Journal;
"The tipsy women and boys (of whom
the crowd was more than half composed J
we're rude, and wholly regardless of the
common wsyfarer's rights, impudent if
| spoken to, and crowding or running
against us, unless we escaped them by
very pains-tskiDg winding Of cur way.
The whole air and behaviour Of this wick
ed and dirty plurality expressed an exult-
ing lawlessness and defiance.
"The high brick blocks and closely
packed houses in this neighbOrhood seem
ed to be literally hives Of sickness and vice.
CuriOsity 10 look on at the fire raging so
near them, brought every inhabitant to
| the porch or window, or assembled them in
ragged or dirty groups on the sidewalk in
front. Probably not a creature who could
move was left in doors st that hour And
it is wonderful to see, and difficult to be-
lievc, that so much misery, and disease,
and utter wretchedness, can be huddled
together and hidden by high walls, unvis-
tied and unthOught Of, so near our own
sbOdes The lewd but pale and sickly
young women, scarce decent in their rag
ged attire, we're impudent, and scattered
everywhere in the crowd. But what num-
bers Of these poor classes are deformed,
what numbers are made hideous by self.
neglect and infrmity, and what numbers
are paralytics, drunkards, imbeeile, OF
idiotic, forlorn in their poverty-stricken
abandonment for this world Alas hu-
/ Lab hS1anv1u nth hnna nd
vanity all gone And female foIms and
features are made so frightful by sin,
squalor, and debasement! To walk the
streets as we walked them, for those hours
Of conhagration and riot, was like fear.
f1l Witnessing of the day Of Judgement
with every wicked thing revealed, every
zoe and sorrow blazingly glsred upon,
every hidden horror Of abominRtion laid
bare, before helPs expected FIRE.
We have not made the character Of
the mob a part of our description-it has
been done SO fully by the daily journals
But We must add our confrmatory remark
upon one peeuliarity Of the confessed riot
ers. There lOsre no decent Irish among them
Irish they all were-every soul of them
but they were the dirty, half druken, bru-
tai rowdies, who are the leprosy Of that
fair-skinned race. They were the filthy
/ pustules Of an eruption on the Irish skin
not to be accounted part of the natural
and pGrgsd "a away ti HE Ike hditsssssdd'
In ordinary life, such fellows sneak about,
and hide from daylight in places where
| they can drink, and dsbsuch, and contrivs
wiokedness; but here-where this grand
fire made them feel like masters, and gave
them impudence for the houf-they were
the pictures of saucy beggars, half-drunk4
en- brutes and robbers, longing to put a
clutch upon your throat and empty your
pockets. One of our daily papers estimates
this class Of the New York population at
twenty thousand. How shall we sufficient
ly damn, for all history, the cringing poll
ticiau and ooWardly ofice-holder Who-for
make-weight to his party-wili bssely
strive to propitiate such q scum of great
city?"
Let US entreat the honest, sober, frugal,
worthy Irish segment Of our population,
whethero Of city or country, to bear patient
ly the opprobium to which the zoutrages
committed by this vile crew may for a time
expose them, proving, by their quiet de-
meanor and upright conduct, that they are
mlsjudged and harshly dealt with by the
indiscriminate odium to which they are
subjected. A few days of such behavior
will restore the equilibrium Of the public
mind, and restrict the epprobium Of the
recent outrages to those who have really
deserved il.
Cox and the Riot. -..
The Herald speaks Of the report that
Cox has conceded the election Of John