The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-07-18
Great DemOcra Peace DEM
onstrat on I'm New York Ben.
Wood, dighaHn f. Co.'S.
Men Out in Perceive POlnt-
ers in Possession.

riot was commenced on Monday last
| in New York city. for the ostensibls object
Of preventing the draft, but the real object
| appears ION the part of the low scum that
was actively engaged) to have been plumber,
and indiscriminate robbery and murder.
This is the legitimate fruits of the copper.
head teachings, Southern sympathizing, and
that secession sentiment which has been so
industriously propagaed by the street-corn
orators who lose no opportunity to illuminate
their poison in denunciatory harrangues
against the administration, the injustice of
the conscription act, and the wickedness of
the attempt to sustain the government and
put down the rebellion.
This saturnaia Of treason commenced on
Monday morning last, at II o'clock, by
large mob collecting in front of the conscrip
ting Office on Third Avenue to prevent the
draft from being carried on. They drove
away the officers, and set the building on
fire. The mob prevented the fire bells from
being rung, ard the iromen from acting
The mob held high carnival through the
city from Monday up to Thursday, when it
appeared to be subsding, through whole,
some fear, no doubt, of the military, Of
which several regiments of New Y ork troops
had returned from the army to quell the
mob. The notorious Andrews, ringleader
Of the mob was arrested and sent to Fort
Lafayette. This Andrews is Eirginian by
birth, and has wife and four children in
the vicinity Of Norfolk, Va. He has resided
,iced law, living with coored courtesan.
By such disgraces to humanity is the draft
opposed.
The following resume Of the outrageous
and reasonable affair, with some very per.
tinent reflections, we copy from the Phila
lelphia Inquirer Of Wednesday:
THE RrREL,aoS IN .;Aw YORK.
New York city ia still at the mercy of the Formidable
ami savage mob which commenced its trator,us work
III Monday. Although the police authorities, aided by
small mt.ry force hastily called together have been
making the most esoue and courageous exertions and
have beaten Getachmcns of the mob, in several Gu.
ount,r-, killing twenty to thirty in Their charg-s.
the riot still continues aud has swelle TO the most fear
u proportions Dwellings, stores, factories warehouses
chnhs, churches buildings Of every kind demolished
without the slightest plctrxt provocston: robbery
nluri-hpS gigantic scale murders Df innocent per.
almost every street corner in the upper
part OF the city; tile railroads have been torn up, and
travel has been Interrupted; tho teegraphs have been
destroyed and brutal ruff ni.n seems to reign supreme
As always happens in times of turbulence aud riot,
thieves. cutthroats and vaius uf every stamp In
proving the ply their scoundrel trades
Stories counting and private dwellings of
parties in no wise connected with the draft have been
entered and sacked for other rcaaon than b"caus"
they afford chance fr pundtr. Even peaceful pas5en-
gers by the railway trainsstrangers in the cyhave
been stopped mnltreated aud robbed On the highway
Worse even than this. unprotected women, with their
helpless and pancStrieken Children have been turned
into the streets to their homes plundered and de-
view. and with full knowledge of the character Of the
Villains who enact them, We are panied to ind men on
streets If whom better things should be expected
cxultiug what going Ii sho, be made plain
all the world that such cannot he Pertae to as.
such attitude under cloak VI championship Of the
peopl. against the CONSUMPTION act. In applying soft
words and approving smiles to what has been going on
in Ncw York during the last two days they make them
selves the apoots Of thieves the advocates Of highway
robbers. the champions of red handed assassins whose
crimes have connection whatever with the draft
And this being the self-nposed attitude OF these sym
pathizcr with wanton robbery destruction and murder
they should, whenever they cape their lips, be met
with the sharpes Indignation and deepest oathns Of
every honest man.
There not phase Of tho proceedings of this mob
that not cruel and cowadly beyond expression They
overwhen by their numbers some solitary policeman or
invalid soldier who out in obedience to order per-
form his duty, aud ,hsy-a thousand to one--bcat him
out OF all senblance of humanity, throw him
prccipce ard then stand Off showering rocks down on
his qu' srmg body until he is literally buried alive
under Ito Accumulated missiles. They poor negro
boy going home from his day of aborthey take that
helpless and nnohending boy, rend him almost to pieces
hang hun 10 the nearest tree. and then set fire to his
vt ptpting body. They pursue flying policeman to
tho door of peaceful dwa.lng, into which he darts for
shelter and ESCAPES by tho resr There is not soul in
| that house in the remote way connected with the
draft in fact, thcre Is there hut lone woman
and her chi!dren but simply because the door was opeu
and the policemen used 1t for escape, the cruel and
cowardly moi drive out the lady and her children, sack
the dwelling make sonte Of the costly u,niture and
| burn the house to ashes
These but Isolated examples Of unumerable ont
RACES of the kind which the heart stkens in
the recital Yet these the transactions shocking as
they are to every instinct of manhood, which
| in this city are openly gl"ating to-day
But the whole saturn lila of crime reigning in the
streets Of New York trait it is cruel and
cowarily 1t il diversion in favor of Lee when he had
been driven back, baied and beaten from his invasion
nothing less than that. There escape for
s aidsrs and abettors from the deep infamy Of that
POSITION. When at last the brave and noble armes of
the Union had brought the Rebellion to its knees; when
Grant had reduced ficksburg capturing thirty thousand
men when Meade had beaten Lee back Into Virginia
with nearly half bis army destroyed: when Prentss had
defeated the combined Rebels of Texas, ARKANSAS anu
Missouri; when R,secraus had broken Braggs army
aud driven its shattered remains down into Ge'rga;
when She had scattered Johnstons forces in MIS-
sssppi When Port Hudson, with its eighteen Thousand
mon had just been captured by General Banks; when
(ilu,ore's advancing hattaans are fighting their way
successful, to charleston; when in ~or' the Rebel
li,n is overwheme! in every quarter anu at last GER
tain to be rushed these Conbpraors OF treason ana
allies of Davis in New York seize that suspicious oppor
tupty FIR their attempt to raray1e the victorious arm
Of Tie nation!
and bloody proceedings profess 70 be anxious To restore
-t its dawn when they do th.n worst put ov
The bl, ased light of its rising SUM-"
" - General Rosecrans, the invincible, mas
g anSssagg to almost total rout. 1nsted OF