Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-24
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Abolition journals oonstantly charge that The
late New York riots were deliberately organ
izsd, planned and led. They say that the
planners, organizsrs and leaders were ''cop2er-
heads" or "Northern sympashizsrs with the re-
bellion." But the facts completely upset this
theory The Journal of Commsrcs Of the 2ist
inst. says:
The riot broke out q week ago Monday
Before IL had been under headWay an hour, de-
tective oficers were dispatched to the scene Of
disturbance to m Tk and report the leaders,
Since that time, up to the late fight In 22d
street, there has probably not been single
street broil of any consequence In which an
emissary of the police department has not
watched for the leaders. Faces have been OBJ
served 90 that they would be known again |;
acts and words have been noted that nigh.
hereafter be used In evidence IL occasion re-
quiFes. IL was seen to be matter of the frat
Importance to know who was instigatiDg the
exoesses of these mad rioters, and prsoticed
and acute detective force have bent their whole
energies TO the task.
And what have they found out They know,
and have arrested, the persons who made the
mob and the speakers prove 70 be individd-
ais entirely unknown to the public, and never
mixed up with any school Of politics. They
have seized upon number who ere fully iden'
| tilted as leaders, conspicuous with muskets or
| clubs, and they turn out to be nobodies in po-
sition or influence. Under the we'll directed
| FIRE of hoWitzers and muskets central figures In
the mob were seen to fall dead. The ooroners
have held nearly sixty inquests on the bodies OF
rioters, and not single man of the least pub /,
lie rote has been recognized among them. or
over hundred cases Of gunshot and other
wounds treated at the hospitals, not one was in
ficted upon citizen OF any notoriety, on the
side of the rioters.
These facts prove that the mob had no leaders
of Influence; at any rate, none such as the
Aboltiouists are trying to make the public be-
lieve it had. Bot they say the leaders kept out
of the way To this the same paper replies:
Organized bodies are not apt TO fight without
commanders. II the mobs of lsst week had
been deliberately organic 3D., as the radicals as.
sert, instead of improviIed gatherings of fierce
and impusive men, would they have been like
ly TO have eLtered upon their horrid week g
work without their ringleaders2 The idea that
the leaders shirked their responsibility, from
cowardice, is perfectly ridiculous. In all the |
organized mobs 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 to time, were
we'll enough known. .
n,k ho.a Ia rink vvh;oh laala MT n dav hnt
whole week, 10 which not two thousand but
thirty thousand people are engaged, riot which
was ten times more serious than all the previ- |
GUS riots put oge.her, and where are the lead
ers7 The people and the police have been try
Ing to find them out for week, but cannot.
And Why7 Because, so far as ell the evidence
goes, there we're no leaders. Strange pbenom.
ens are continually occurring; and this is one
of them. lt was huge riot, without a direct
ing hand or braln,-a monstFous mob swsyiug
hither and thither at the mad impulse OF the
To the foul aspeIsion of the Abolitionists
that the unseen and unheard leaders in the |
riots were champions Of the Democratic or
party, the Journal Of Commerce
responds by stating that 80
tits q curious fact, which cannot be denied, |
that all the men who headed voluntary organi-
cations 10 crush out the mob were men OF that
party. Every man who raised troops under
Governor Seymour's call was conservatives
With the efficient cooperation of those men,
the Governor secured an extra force of several
thousand citizens. Neither the Street Com
nor City Inspector ia q radical, and
each mustered formidable battalion from his
department.. Every man who breasted the fury
Of the mob, and attempted to talk them into
reason, was q conservative. Two popular DEM
ocrats of the Sixth Ward, by their indefatiga-
BILE exertions, have deservedly won the credit of
keeping that teeming district quiet. Other
Democrats did Q similar good work in other |
wards. So far from helping the riot, there was
scarcely one conservative politician Of any note
who was not doing his very best to stop it; while
the radicals were in fact urging il on with their
ill.timed abuse Of the Governor and of every
man who honestly aided him in checking the
riot. .-.,.-
This IN hiatofv.