Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-07-21
RESISTANCE TO THE DRAFT IN NEW
YORK CITY.

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The great event Of the last week,
more interesting than the result of bat
ties, occurred among foreign and hos
tile people-we allude to the fact that
forcfble and successful resistance to Lin
coins draft has been made in the city of
New York. seThe good time comirg,"
which we have been so long hopefully
and anxiously expecting, is about to ar
rive The signs which indicate the ter
rible social and political revolution
which will soon take place in the North
are now manifesting themselves. The
handwriting is beginning to appear up
on the wall, and the knees Of the aboh
ton Belshazzar at Washington are begin
ming to smite each other, and his Ian
tern jaws are chattering like bone cas-
tanets in the hands of musical Sambos.
The spirit of resistance to the draft will
not be confined to New York. 1t will
soon show itself throughout the North.
The war feeling in the North has had its
flow, but the ebb has now commenced,
and it will be commensurate with the
flow of the food-tide. The draft will
not be executed in New York, and, it
may be, no place else. The Northern
papers are filled with accounts OF the
great riot, but we only have space for
the following:
Enrolling offices in eighty e; ghth and
eighty ninth districts completely demol-
ished. Two whole blocks of houses on
the Sd avenue were badly burned. The
military were ordered out and several
citizens and soldiers killed. Upon the
arrival of the police on the ground,
another attack was made on the crowd,
and the police dispersed. Several were
killed and others badly beaten. Super
Iintendent Kennedy was severely wound
i ed. An Armory on Second Avenue
was destroyed. A raid was made on
the negroes and the colored Orphan
Asylum laid in ashes. The destruction
of buildings was fearful. The Bulls
i head Hotel, two mansions on Lexington
!. avenue were sacked. The Tribune of
flee was attacked and the attack repulsed
by the police. Negroes were hung, &c.
The Herald's summary says that at
one time the number OF people was from
twenty-five to thirty thousand assem-
bled On one spot, and affairs assumed a
/ lserious look
Several buildings were destroyed, and
many lives were lost. Several soldiers,
! policemen and citizens were wounded.
Private houses in not "a few instances
were broken open. The Times gives
an account of the progress OF the riot
) proceedings! 1t says there is no ques-
ton but that vastly larger number
] were engaged than on the previous Mon
/ day Several encounters between the
mob, police and military. A large
number of the rioters were killed.
: Col. Osburn, of the 18th New York,
who commanded portion of the forces,
) was beaten to death by the crowd and
; then hung, the streets barricaded, build
ings burned, stores closed, private dwell
lings plundered, all large manufacturing
; establishments closed, and every branch
of business suspended.
Gov. Seymour arrived from Albany,
and addressed the crowd from the steps
) of the City Hall He announced that
he had sent to Washington to ask the
Government to stop the draft in the city
for the present. He subsequently issued
! proclamation declaring the city, coun-
ty and State in instruction.
Among the incidents were the follow
ing:
t A party of rioters broke open an I'M
dertaker's store and stole coffin, on
r which they inscribed "Lincoln's Draft
Died Monday, July 1Sth.o They then
carried the coffin around the streets
! Some of the newsboys mingled with the
) crowd around the Park, crying extras,
! announcing Execution of Horace Gree
~" The hoax was largely cheered by