The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-18

GENTLEMEN: | am opposed 10 this draft as
much as any man in this crowd. Cheers. /
am IN favor Of burning desn thu building that
t0aS burned dolon- CHEERS but am opposed
to having these poor peoples homes burned
down. 1t will do no good to you or to anybody
else. Cheers. | therefore ask you to stand back
and let us save the building. 1t is the property
of poor man, who cannot get a cent of the insur-
ance on il if it is destroyed.
The New York .News says:
"The working men may rest assured that the
conscription act will not be enforced. Our rulers
under stand at last the extent of popular opposition
to the measure. A judicial tribunal has pronounced
it unconstitutional, and the voice of tn people re-
atfirms the judgment. There will be no con-
strained military service of American citizens in
the enthusiastically not in New York State"
The New York World, after urging the Presi-
dent to stop, drafting by a proclamation and call
tor 100000 volunteers, says:
"Now, We do not know that Mr.. Lincoln ill
issue proclamation of this kind, but we are quite
sure that be will wish he had done so. after he
fully realizes the utter impossibiity of forcing the
American people into compulsory military SER
vice"
Gov. Seymour addresses the mob and calls
them My friends" and substantially tells them
that the draft shall not be enforced in New York.
He talks moderately of enforcing State laws, but
refrains from even limiting at the necessity Of en-
forcing the laws of the United States. And his
course, and that of his supporters and partzans in
the City and State, as evidenced by the above ex-
tracts, show that there is deliberate purpose of
fomentlng so great popular discomfort and out
break in New York City, as, if possible, to frighten
the Government into an abandonment of the draft.
Every friend of our National Government, eve
ny lover of the Union, and every man who desires
the ultimate and speedy success of oar arms
against traitors, will be treasured, however, by
the evidence which is now being given that the
National Government has no purpose of receding
single step at the bidding of New York mob,
although backed by New York newspapers and
New York politicians. We know there is large
population of rufians, shouldcr-hitters and scoun
drels in that city, who are ready to lend them
selves to any political or rebel faction that encour
ages mob law, but we are at the same time cheer
ed with the belief that troops are being concen-
trated in the city sufficient to awe thieves into
silence and peace; and when the thieves and
plunderers,-the more courageous scoundrels-
are frightened into submission, their cowardly aid
ers and abettors- the Fernando Woods, the Nc
Gums, the Brooks, and such papers as the .Neps,
the Herald, the Express, and the WorId-will
snarlingy and sneakingly acquiesce in obedience
to the laws. BY the kind blessing of a good
Providence victories in the field so far relieve
the Government from danger from Southern reb-
els that it can devote little time and strength to
the traitors at the North. And when again, in
few days, it is ready to continue the draft in that
city, there will be present such military force as
will make rebellion in New York as dangerous as
rebellion in Maryland. And we expect when
that time comes, and law and order are sternlv
maintained, that Gov. Seymour not only will have
the cunning to forget that be ever addressed a
mob as My friends" but will impudently AFRO
gate to himself the praise of having, by most
wonderful mixture OF honey and vinegar, SO al
layed the passions of his friends" as to bring the
rule of law out of the anarchy Of the mob, and
the blessings of peace and order out of the de-
structive chaos Of unbrided awessness. Blu. the
people will not forget who, in the terrible hour of
mob law, were, on the one hand, the real friends
of law and order, and who, on the other, were the
partisans and friends of the mob. Let the people
keep the record in mind, and hereafter, when the
Woods, and Brooks, and Seymours claim to be
the especial champions of obedience to law, call
10 mind thaiy ,oursa dur;no, fbraa. Jora - Il