Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-28
MORNING LEADER,
TUESDAY mORNING, JULY2s. 1888.

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history Of the New York riots, to enable
one to doubt that the outbreak was q part
Of q deeply laid Secession scheme, wide in
its operations and terrible in its intended
results. Each days papers are full of tes-
timOny to this point. The fact that organi-
cations hostile to the Government exist in
the North. is too well understood to be de-
MED. These organizations we're for the
aid and comfort of the rebellion. The re-
bsIIion was rapidly waning, as cOnse-
ousnt Of the victories Of the Federal arms
Gettysburg and Charleston in the East,
Tullshoma and Chattanooga in the centre,
and Yicksburg, Port Hudson, and Helena
in the West, warned oil sympathisers with
the rebellion that the end was near. If
they helped their fellows at any time, no
delay would be allowable. They, there
fore inaugurated riot, which they in
tended should be a revolution and a rebel
lion. The sympathy Of the mob with the
rebels was attested by many circumstances.
A party Of Germans who we're proceeding,
uoon the Monday which saw the riot
opened, on a pleasure excursion with the
national flag flying over them, were at
tackled By the mob, and the flag torn down
amid Secession cries; cheers for JEFF. Da
Wis and groans for President Lincoln we're
frequently heard from the riotersi every
Government ofieer was especially hunted
down and assaulted; and the mob recOg-
mixed as their patrons those who are known
to be in sympathy with the rebellion. The
New York Tribune places some suspicious
circumstances before its readers, in start
ling light, as follows:
HThe advance Of Lee upon the Free
States. an invasion that seemed little less
than madness, looked at from strictly
military point Of view; the stripping Of
this State Of its whole military force at
moment when the draft was imminent, and
which the Copperhead journals were con-
etantlv predicting would be resisted; the
appeai BY the placards on the 4th Of July
to the people OF the city to rise and resist
ttyrannical Government; the attempt
about the same time, Of vice-President Ste
phsns to get to Washington on a mere pre-
tenee; the significant articles Of the Rich
nond papers, prematurely announcing the
victory Of Lee, which was evidently con-
sidered a foregone conclusion, over Hooker,
and their elaborate statements Of the terms
of peace which we're about to be dictated to
the suhjugated North-all these events,
when taken together, considered in their
relations TO each other, and read by the
iirhtof the late insurrection, have mean
ing which she who runs may read, and
which those possessedOf Of more secret know
ledge know TO have been the counterparts
Of a great revolutionary plot"
The Times notes the evident precOncert
Of plan which was carried out. There
we're no threatening murmurings or agita-
tiOns preeedingthe fierce outbreak on Mon
day, as is always the case in popular
.sutes. while the directions which the riot
: showed that the operations Of the mob
been laid down beforehand. The Times
s the following significant facts;
UTbe movement which had been made
cfby the Copperhead leaders to break up the
present Police Board, and get the control
Of the police into their hands-the iDexplI-
cable military movements made under the
authority Of Governor Seymour-the ex-
traordinary speech made by the latter, in
the Academy Of Musiou on the Fourth, par
ticularly calculated TO excite passion
against the National Government, and that
too. at the very time when the hearts of all
true men were leaping for Joy over the
fresh tidings of the great victories-the re
msrkable fact that this functionsTy, as ap
pears by his statement sent his AdjutanI
to Washington two days previous to th'
outbreak, to represent that the draft mus
be stopped, when there were 10 outward
signs Of disturbanee-the fact that, not
withstanding his apprehension that troubli
would come he kept himself in New JERSEY
quite out Of reach until the mob had haC
twentv-four hours full swing-his extra
ordinary pledge to the mob, when he frs
confronted it. that the draft should not b
nut through, and his virtual justification
Of their phrensy-the fact that he appa
rently sought to magnify the gravity Of tn
situation by officially styling 1t o state G
insurrection,' which, in any just sense G
the term, it certainly was nOt-the effort
of the leading COpperhead organs to i'm
press the country that this was an uprisin
Of 'the people the attempts Of some {
the Copperhead Justices to give strengt
to the movement by interposing the habet
corpus in favor Of arrested leaders-thes
and many other facts Of similar charact'
are all noticeable, and elicit not very favo
able comment"