Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-24
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sue. the charge that the late riots were debcr
ately planned. organized and led The planners.
organizers and leaders were "copperheads," or
"Northern sympathizers with the rebellion "
There never was clearer case of assertion where
the wish was father TO the thought" or where
the facts were more completely opposed to the
theory. The riot broke out week ago Monday
Before it had been under Roadway an hour, de
tectve officers were dispatched to the scene of
disturbance To mark and report the leaders Since
that time up TO the last fight in 22d street, there
has probably not been a single street bro Of any
consequence in which all emissary of the police
department has not watched tor the leaders
Facts have been observed so that they would be
known again; acts and words have been noted
that might hereafter be used in evidence if occa
sion requires. 1t was seen 10 be a matter Of the
first importance To know who was instigating the
excuses of these mad rioters. and practised
and acute detective force have bent their whole
energiessto the task
And what have they found out? They know
and have arrested. the persons who made the only
two or three harangues delivered TO the mob and
the speakers prove TO be individuals entirely un
known TO the public and never mixel uD with
any school OF politics They have seized upon "A
number who are fully identified as leaders, con.
spicuous with muskets or clubs. and they turn
out 10 be nobodies in position or influence
Under the well directed fire of howitzers and
muskets, central figures in the mobs were seen
10 fall dead. The Coroners have held nearly
sixty inquests on the bodies of rioters and not a
single man of the least public note has been rec
ognized among them. OF over hundred cases
of gunsaot and other wounds treated at the hos
pitfalls, not one was inflicted upon n citizen of any
notoriety on the side of the rioters
Now. it all these facts prove anything they
prove that the mob had no leaders OF influence
such M the radicals are striving % hitch on it,
But the radicals determined TO make out a case
insist that the leaders all kept out of the
way Think of Colonel keeping alooffrom his
regiment. Captain from his com any, in a
field OF battle. aud you have parallel instance OF
absurdty. Organized bodies are not apt 10 fight
without commanders IL the mobs of last week
had been deliberately organized M the radical.
assert. instead OF improvsed gatherings or fierce
aud impulsive men. would they have been likely
to have entered upon their horrid weeks work
without their ringleaders? The idea that the
leaders shirked their responsibility. from coward
ice. Is perfectly ridiculous. In all the organized
IN lbs OF which the history of this city gives any
account. the leaders came out boldly and seemed
tO glory in their position. They always do
The names OF public men who took part in
The old Abolition riots the bread riots the
Astor Place Opera House riot and the other
serious Disturbances of the peace which
have occurred from time 10 time, werc we'll
enough known II tho city reader will rub up
his memory OF those old events. he will agree 20
the truth of this statement But here il riot
which lasts not day but whole week in winch
not two thousand but thirty thousand people are
engaged. riot which WIS ten times more serious
than All The previous riots put together. and
where are the leader~f The people aud the 20
lice have been irving to find them out for week
ami cannot Aud whyI Because, so FAR n all
the evidence goes, there no leaders Strange
phenomena are continually occurring, and this &,
one OF them. IL WAS huge riot. without di
recting hand or brain--a INDUSTRIOUS mob swayinc
Ei:her and thither az the mad impulse OF the mo
ment
The radicals continually hint that the unseen
and unheard leaders were champions OF the Dem
ocratic, or conservative, party. Now. il is Gu
rious fact which can not be denied. that all men
who headed voluntary orgsnzltio TO crush out
the mob were men of that party. Every man who
raised troops under Gov Seymour's call was
co iservative. With the efficient CO operation of
those men. the Governor secured an extra force
OF several thousand able bodied citizens Neither
the Street Commissioner nor CITY Inspector are
radicals. and each mustered formidable bittal
ion from his department Every IN who breast
ed the fury OF the mob. and attempted To talk
them into reason. was conservative Two pop
ular Democrats Of the Sixth Ward. BY their indie
fatigable exertionS, have deServcdly won the
credit of keeping that teeming district quiet
Other Democrats done similar good work IN
other wards 81 far from helping the riot. there
WIS scarcely one conservative politician oi any
note who not doing his very best TO stop il.
while the radicals were in fact urging il on with
their III timed abuse of the Governor and every
man who honestly aided him in checking the riot
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