The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-07-29
From the n Y Tribune, July Il.
TIL. Antmus ef the Mob.

Riots We sre favored by one st our most intel
igeat ard trustUorthy citizens with the following
70 The Editor OF tie New York Tribune
SIR: The World has the ehrontery TO deny
pumply that this riot is got up and conducted
10 the interests of JEFF Davis and the Rebellion /;
and this morning il attempts 10 bluff the issue
BY the following paragraph:
But he i professionally seeker AtGer truth. /
and We beg 70 recommend 10 him a practical
way OF ascertainins what these rioters really /
mean. Let him 60 in person into the hrst crowd
OF them he NAV meet, and set up good hearty |
shout for JEFF Davis aud Lee" Il after that
be ever returns TO the bosom OF his family, It |
rill be, We venture 10 SAY, a both a sadder aud
q wiser man.
have had occasion TO be present among the
rioters during several OF the most exciting scenes
Of these disturbances, and am ia the position
to meet squarely tie proposition OF the World
knoss that there has thus far been 20 surer
passport through these mobs than the express
sion Of sympathy with the Rebels ard cheers for
JEFF Davis. | confess that, desperate and an
scrupulous ss knew the Copperheads 10 be,
vas surprised a. this discovery But when
myself heard the rioters give three cheers for
JEFF Davis and when ! heard from their ON
lips their wishes for his success, l could doubt
no longer On Monday | was press Mt Al the
sack and firing OF the houses in Lexington av-
enue. going through the whole mob from its *
IRENE verge 10 the very front steps OF these
houses. There saw a man known TO many per
sons as q Rebel synpathizer, hand and glove
with the rioters, encouraging them, in coussta
ton with their ringesders, and welcomed by
them wherever be went. There heard wishes
expressed for the success Of the Rebellion snd
the destruction OF 1.-The nayguis" There a man
of decent exterior and apparent intelligence eX-
claimed, as he saw the houses burning, This
| is the NEST glorious sight have ever seen this
will paw JEFF. Davis for the loss OF Vicksburg.
0n Tuesday evening heard among the rioters,
in the upper part Of the Third avenue, cheers
| for jeff Davis; but il WAS dark, and could not
see the individuals who proposed or who gave
them. But early on Wednesday afternoon | was
| in the Second avenue as q detachment of the 7th
Regiment marched up to disPerse the mob which
had been maltreAting the negroes near Twenty
seventh street The rioters vanished from be
fore the detachment, out closed in behind IT, and
began to boot and then TO stone, and finally to
fire upon it, One of these very rioters who
made this attack when the detachment had
moved about a square of, called out, "Thre,
cheers for jeff Davis" The cheers were given
and numerously, though not very loudy-ioi
the bayonets we're too near / stood not ter
feet from the man who proposed the cheers, anC
face TO face with him. In ten minutes ] saw
the crowd which he then led stoning the 7th'
men.
Merely TO deprive the World, and the Rebe
| sympathizers for whom and TO whom il speaks
of the benefit of al objection, which il may make
that my evidence is to be taken with allowance
az that of an Aboltionist or Radical, say tina
am one Of those who have constantly opposes
+, your course upon the negro question, and denie'
both the right and the policy Of the Emanci
patton Proclamation and that, though l nos
heartily support the President, | did not sup
port Abraham Lincoln a candidate for IN
Presidency. You, believe, can testify 20 th
I truth Of this statement, and also TO the trust
; worthiness Of any other that / can make.
, would sign my name but II is in the Direc ory
and do not wish NV house 10 be fired by Gov
Seymour's land JEFF. Davs's) friends" on th
day when this il published.
EYE WITNESS.
, New York, July 10, 1863
al From the y. Y Tribune July 20
, As my statements conform exactly to fact
they are, in the language OF the World, q,
the Grst Importance to historical truth )" and
] will say just how il happened, that this know
s edge came into my possession. The World Ia
, guessed rightly as to my means of knowledg,
On Saturday, Jslv l |, lady at whose house
passed the evening, told me, in the course
|. conversation, that her Irish cook had told he
{ that all the Irishmen bad agreed TO resist th
draft, and to Sight against il, and that "Fernar
dy Wud was at the bottom iv il, aud Governo
, SeymoOr wud stand by EN- and sorra the so
der vas there in New York; aud 50, it's n
s dhrAft there'l be at all, at all B." laughed an
s knowing something Of the political relations
= the late Democratic Mayor of the city and ia
present Democratic Governor OF the State =,
garded the matter mere talk, meaningat mos
a that few Irishmen would kick mp a shindy
q the mastering in. But on Monday, the l3th.
. friend whom / met in the street told me that b
wife's house maids bad told her the same story
and, therefore when first heard Of the on
break | suspected that there Was something
0 more Importance than a shindy approaching.
; determined instantly to look into the matter Z,
n myself and laying aside all business that cou
temporarily neglect, did little else between Mo-
= day at midday and Thursday evening thsa d
y serve the riot and the rioters closely a. poss
e Die. | went nowhere that any one else could n
have gone, who chose 10 take the trouble a.
the risk; nisrepresented neither myself n
ny opinions; | did not Obtrude myself upo
y any man a.semblage Of men; / neither aske
10 ner received any mans confidence; but mere
2 vent on those DAYS Just where might hay
a gone, aud did just what | might have done
any other time. Yet had the satisfaction
seeing TO the very bottom Of the whole afaii
e though with the exciting consciousness that
r. the meR among whom | moved bad known bo
q felt with regard 70 their proceedings IN,
would have bludgeOned me to death wi
: pleasure.
In addition to what said before about Il
d open sympathy between the rioters and the Re
y els, will say that, according to my Observable
4 the rioters we're without exception Pro-Slave
Democrats; that heard them express unbou
. ded admiration for "FernaDdy Wud," great co
u hience in the friendship Of Gov. " Seymoor
and high respect for the World and the Dgi
d Ners, and the only men among them whom
#, heard speak without an Irish brogue were A -
few Germans and some half dozen glib-tongu
fellows, who were evidently Of the lowest ord
q Of ward politicians. OF the last I saw no
when there was any danger near. But one
them, whom l heard addressing throng aft
an utter defeat by the police aud a company
troops cautioned them against attempting ar
4 thing unless they we're lin sufficient force 70
al coDplish it-adding: " This is peculiarly pc
II pies movement, and, unless We manage it vi
II prudence, it NAV end very dis4strously for Va
Though very near him, vas almost behind hin
and could not get sight OF his face. His En-
u ish showed that he vas born and bred ia n
h 49, lin h. -