Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-21
THRNRw YORK MOE.
How IL was Observation-Disclosures OF the
Riot-Attaeks upon Private Dwellings
and Persons-COmments Of Demo-
cratic papers


fasten upon them large share of the re-
sponsibility for the murderOus riot. The
scenes and incidents reported would fill
pages rather than columns, all of them full
Of interest.
The teachings of the Herald, World and
Express Of New York city weEe calculated
to foster and strengthen any i'll feeling
that had been engendered by the fears Of
the draft. With a reckless disregard of
consequences which should send the writers
to the penitentiary, the papers alluded to
denounced the CONSUMPTION act in terms
the most uncalled for and revolutionary.
The Express Of Monday evening (the riot
began on Monday morning. declared the
act unconstitutional and tyrsnnical, and
said:
"The people, SO history establishes, sell
dom wake up to the loss Of their liberties
until their liberties are irrevocably gone.
It is ever the custom of tyrants to preserve
all the forms Of law, but so to use their
force as TO manacie the people forever.
When the handouts are upon the multi
tude, and when that multitude are envel-
oped in a soldiery, resistance to tyranny
is vain as resistance to the waves or the
winds"
This was to induce the people to believe
that the oonscription was made in the in
terest of tyranny. The Express further
said:
"The Conscription Act is purpOsely
made as violent and as Odious as possible,
as if but to provoke resistance, IN order to
induce MARITAL Law and the suspension
of the Habeas CoTpW-to suspend which
Mr.. Lincoln is given power under the In
demnity Act
The Express closes with this shameful
but shameless, malignant and dastardly
lie:
"If the courts of law can not protect us
from a conscription which puts 100000
of human beings under the absolute mill
tary control Of one man, our Republic
shares the destiny of Greece, of Rome, Of
the Venetian, Florentine and Pisan Re-
publics, Of the struggle of liberty in
France and in England with Cromwell,
and we cease, as ether Republics have, to
exist as CITIZENS, and become SUBJECTS
and SLAVES The courts of law will GER
tainly preserve the Republic from this aw-
full fate"
The World of Monday morning-the
draft then being made--said of the law,
that it was
IA measure which could not have been
ventured upon in England even in those
dark days when the press-gang filled the
English ships-of-war with slaves, and
dimmed the glory Of England's noblest ma
val heroes-a measure wholly repugnant
to the habits and prejudices of our people,
was thrust into the statute books as one
might say almost by force. Il was not
only a CONSUMPTION, but an act by con-
scrIption."
The World also tried to make the i'm
preston that an undue share of men were
to be drawn from New York city, or, as
the World put it, New York is to be
mulcted in largely more than its due pro-
portion of men," The News Woods pa
peri had an article on "The Infamous
CONSUMPTION" It also urged that there
we're "frauds in the draft" The News
also used such language as the following :
"The Conscription Act will probably
result in mOsS unpleasant consequences.
There is JIrking mischief in the atmos-
phere that surrounds the unWelcome
ST. ANGER "a 1t INV prepares 20 make
forcible entry across our thresholds
There are symptoms of widespread inclna-
ton TO extend to it g hard greeting, and to
meet its intrusion with somewhat more
than paSsiDs Indignation"
Thus the papers in the interest of Fer
nandO Wood, and the presses whish look
upon Vallandigham as hero and Seymour
as their patron, encouraged and stimulated
the evil passions of the mob.
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR AND MR.. FAGIN.
The readers of Dickens will recognize
the appropriateness of the following com
municatiOn to the Philadelphia Press:
GS1R: I observed in your yesterday g
number, that Governor Seymour implored
| the mob to be moderate, and that, acting
upon his suggestion, they Immediately
went to work and hung only one man, in
stead Of the dozen they doubtless would
have hung but for this charitable attempt
to conciliate their feelings. 1 was remind
ed by it of parallel caserelated by Dick
! ems, in which certain respectable old
gentleman" implored the rather impulsive
| Mr.. Sykes TO be moderate, when that
worthy gentleman had decided upon the
measures necessary for the safety Of that
| institution Of which Mr.. Fagin, Mr.. Sykes,
/ Mr.. John Dawson, &C., we're members =
" Don't be Uiolent Bill don't be too violent
I mean, my boy p
al am, sir, yours truly, E."
AN ATRoCIoUs ACT.
The Philadelphia Press learns from the
New York papers that among the dwellings
in that city which have been sacked and
destroyed by the mob is the house of Mr.
James S. .Gibbons,a private citizen Of high.
ly exemplary character. Mrs. Gibbons is
daughter of the late Isaac 7. Hopper
She is at this time, and has been for many
months, devoted to the management of one
of the Government hospitals at Point Look
out, in the State of Maryland. The greater
part of her useful life has been spent in
relieving the miseries and supplying the
wants Of the class Of people who have de-
molished her home during her ahsannn
ATTEMPT TO BURN A GOVERNMENT RAM.
The New York rioters on Monday served
notice on the wOrkmen at Webb's ship
yard that they must quit work. On Tues