New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-16
other hundreds Of thousands would have gone forth
willipply At bis biddinQf Who believes i'll

aied party done instesdf They have framed Cou-
seripiion Act, never tolersbe TO free people, un'
constitutional beyond any ofdoubt ID It's pro
yious IL not in its very natur- ofcnsive and most
uDwire in the mehed of It's enforcement, discrimina-
ting between tho rich and the poor, unfair, onerons
and most oppressive here where the strtion OF DIS
content was at its hight. Does any one wonder
that poor refuse 70 be forced into war mtman-
aged almost into bopeles,ness perverted almost INTO
paftisaoship Did the President and his cabinet
imagine that their la lessnsss could conquer or their
folly ,educe, free people
We have one word to cav to those who resist and
those who couDtenance resistance TO the draft aod
we appeal as having risht to appeal, IN that VIVA.
injustice has been done you, We have never faiied
to resist aud protect sgsirst, when protests were
prescribed snd res stance was crime. stop where
you are. Let this lAwlessness oeass. Mobs must
etop or be put down. No Government can tolerate
shefD. None should tolerate them. Anarchy ID 10
refuge from injustice or wrong.
Your resistance 10 illtinled and unlawful. Inc
courts still exist In the Stale Of New-York. Law
and the protection Of law ars measured out 10 Tue
humblest citizen. The Governor OF the State VIII
sutier law 10 be disobeyed, whether by mobs OF
misguided rulers. The first man whom the con-
scription calls unwiliagly from bis home has II III
bis power to the constuionslity of the law oy
which he is telectsd and the decisions OF tho courts
will be sustained in the Empire State against any
and every power which attempts to override 'oeni'
! from the same-wsdn-sisy.
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| The abiect surrender OF this great city for Two
successive DAYS into the hands OF reCk, and ras'
eonste mob will he lasting stain upon tho history
of lis Mupcipal Executive. Happily for the city,
aud for the country, too the Executive OF the state
has arrived among time 20 Assert the authority
of the laws of New-York, and every loyal citizen
will breathe freely this day with sense VI re-
turning confidence and hoIo
But we should be Indifferent 20 the highest inter-
ers of this great community, II we permitted tnls
formidable cr'sis 70 psss by without usins pre-!
plainness of sreeeb with tie real, tbough indirect
authors of the terrible scenes have been seeing.
i We speak not as journalists oply, but as CITIZENS,
not as par;izans at all tut IA patrols, wren we say
that more than any one or two or twenty causes
else lhe course pur-oed by the leading radical press
of thl, city in its discussion Of LaioDa policy, mas
led directly 10 the outbreak Of intense and savage
populsr parsion which has Just appalled, US ALI an
ontbreak which IL is impossible not 70 may prove,
and which, II wisdom and courage and JasUce 90
not at once resume the sway too long abandoned 70
folly aud cowardiee and passion, assuredly must
. prove to be bot the dawn before q noon Of veDge-
ance and Of wrath unexampled Ia history since the
wind which the Dsntons, Robespisrres, and Marats
Of revolutionary France had sown VIA reaped In
whirwind by Themselves.
There is no time for vailed for uncertain speech.
The very mooent bids open our mouth. The
shame which has fallen upon cur glorious city, the
peril which threatens oar country the dead 10 our
streets, the terror and the passion raging IN ten
thousand homes, demand expl cit language ard di-
rect indictments. We charge il, r,iofe plainly
upon tho radical journals OF ths city that hey aud
Chiefly they, have educated the people OF Ne~-f"rk
10 the pitch OF passion and the extremes OF desperate
feeling which have cleaned out 80 lurdly and 10
terribly upon us IN thsse lssi sad days.
We charge it upon them thai by their persistent and
malignant assaults upon tie character tue pup loses
aod the pa;riotism OF all who differed from them
IN their views vi puolc duty; that by thoir insane
and Infamous mpulaiious OF di,oyslty hurled against
men whose homes. whose hearts whose hopes afe
bound up wholly aud profoundly in the honor, the
peace aud power Of the country In Which they
dwell but by their incesshnt appeals 10 the low
| eat aud moet brutal paseious rs The motive power
Of the natona ie that by their besri!ess nsoience
lsvelsd az brave men who served theif cOuptry tey
have steadily and wiekedly perv red the di,'inc.
tions OF party, which shond be intell c,asl and
ltolerant iuto animosilies of faction, whch scizs
upon the passions and fire the popular heart TO deeds
OF blood.
We have warned these people again and again Of
the danger with which they were rnadly triring.
We have called upon them, II not for The rake of
drcency and truth sod common Jgsce, II not for the
,ake Of public order and OF peace, for the sake At
least of their own pesoos ami properly upon which,
III the Last resort the tempest hey ~erc s,rs'ning K
every nerve TO evoke, murt sssurediy And over
wheuinely descend, 10 join with us in meeting this
great ordeal OF the nztion Americans and patriots
! n. have appealed 10 them " reflect that peoples
war can only be successfdlly wassd IN obedience to
peoples will.
We have set it before them in every possible light
that the hour must COME when mon born 10 freedom
and ft 70 maintain It would weary u being insnlief
by their equals for the exercire OF the Simplest
nights Of freemen in speech and thought Wnep ed.
ucaied men are csod "iraiiors and "enemies of
their country AID "Copperbeads," because they
think for themselves and say what they think, their
natural weapon against Assaults a. once NJ sily and
40 vile. 10 contempt for the assailsnts. Bat when
these terms hurled for months on months against
great uasses Of the people, all history bids US ca
pect that sooner or lgter, these mars VIII rise and
stamp the insals out in the hearts blood Of tue In
suffers
Il might have been supposed that the lowering
approach OF the rude vcngesncs they have coored
would have made shese people feel ut last how mad
their course hss been.
Il might have been supposed that the editor o!
TIE TKiBUSE trembling all day long IN tho sale
umbrsge Of q friendly restaurant, aud escaping ~
last under Of the darkness 10 his home, m;lt
have been led by these hours Of secuslon to tiiag
away the torch he bad 20 long and % tnougbtessly
brandished. II might have been supposed that the
editors OF The Eoehiag Post, making their Office
fortress and covering under the shelter OF police
en detailed to protect their press and persons at
the expense OF tho poor orphans Of humber race,
who were thus abandoned to the rsge OF furious
mob, would have learncd how peroas thing IL is
to persist in injustice, IN cauInry, aud la ssndcr.
Bat there are disoIsss which only the actual
tery can cure aud the insane mali nty Of the r4di
cal press appears TO belong to them.
| FROM Tho n. Y. Dsily News Of Wednesday.
TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY RESPONSIBLE.
The Black Republican journals, with an unparal-
leled ,firontery, arc endeavorng 10 fix upon the
Democracy the responsibility Of the present dis
tarosnces in this city. Ssys The ~ y. Ereaing
Po,t, Let the people Of the city and country re-
member, that when mob rot FIRE 10 the city and
murdered men in open day, IL wac a Democratic
paper which printed Articles iueiling TO tbis vi-
olence." Thus, by boldly asserting Tho antpodes OF
truth, this interruptions and incendiary journsl