New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-16
OUR PERIL.

We print in other columns again, this morn
ing, articles from the insurrectionary journals,
which are doing their utmost TO foment the
rebellion and stimulate the rioters to persist
in their mad career Of pillage, arson, and muir
der. These are the public organs OF the men
who secretly and in the dark organized the insur.
rection which has lighted devastating fires all over
the city, has cost already many lives. sacrificed
millions of property. compelled tho occupants Of
public offices to fortify and garrison them,
and has spread dismay all over the country. No
acknowledgment could be more open and bold
that the traitors Of the North have delib-
erateIy planned this outbreak in favor of tho
falling cause of their Southern allies. 1t 10 no
sudden thing, no mere passionate resistance to
the draft, but . concOcted plan to begin
by what should seem . riot an organized
resistance to the Government which should
compel it to end the war and accept any terms
Of peace that the JEFF. Davis Confederacy may
coudesceud to grant. On Saturday, said Gov.
Seymour in bis speech on Tuesday from the
City Hall steps to his friends" the incendia.
ries, thieves and murderers. who even then
we're sacking dwelling houses, and slaughtering
the most harmless, the most inOfensive, the
most defenceless, and the most poweress cass
among us" Saturday." said Gov. Seymour,
IL sent the Adjutant- General to Washington
to urge its (the Draft'r) pOstpODement." On Sat-
urday! Two days before the outbreak What
better proof than this can be given that the
Governor anticipated the events of Monday 7
But did he 90 10 the civil and military authori-
ties to warn them of what was comiDgi Did
he use his own power as Chief Magistrate Of
the State to avert this dire calamity by having
in readiness q sufficient force to quell it on
the instant7 He did none of these things
but he went to Long Branch only to return
to the burning and maddened city on Tues.
day morning when the insurrectOn was under
full headway.
And the speeches and proclamations of the
Governor are in temper identical-though dif
fering of course, in official language-with his
organs. The rioters are bis "friends )" he
assures them in q proclamation Of his belief
that "apprehensons of injustice have melted
them to violence. What language is this for
the Chief Magistrate of State to men engaged
in such devastation and such murders as this
city has been given over to for the last three
days. What have the hanging and stamping
to death OF negroes, what the sacking Of pri-
vste houses, what the pillaglDg of jeweryAtores
and of warehouses. to do with the draft'
Let loyal people consider these facts, and
mark the two points on which the insurrec.
tionary journals urge in common, and evidently
with preconcerted action-that the city shall
not be put under martial law, and that the
whole authority for the suppression Of riot
shall bs put in the Governors hands. Is the
result aimed ut understoodi Without Martial
Law any rioter may 60 unwhipt Of justice,
when tried before such Judge a. McCunn.
Without Martial Law the riot may run ito coure
and be regulated finally into an organized op-
position to the Government. The incapacity
Of tho military head of this department. and
the fatal indecision of the Chief Magistrate Of
the city, are permitting power to lapse into
tho hands Of the Governor, and bis organs
are insidiously and simultaneously urging 1t
that these results may follow. Will tho
Government be warned in time I Will
they not give us . military commander
Whs Il not, Ike Gen. WAn], iaesPssitsts4