Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-07-21
Tryh NEW YORK RIOT.

in that city.
These editorial articles are under three
different aspects of force to put 1t down, en-
trcaty to dispense and money to buy peace
All failed: and at the latest hour of which we
have intelligence, "thc Raging Riot " was
still rampant" As our space toblds us to
nublish even extended extracts from these
editorials, we shall make up ii composite arti-
Gle from all Of them, showing their spirit,
purpose and prospects
If there WAS no other evidence of the scri-
ous character of the riot, the fact that there
was only one session Of the Stock Exchange
to-day July l4) in consequence Of the pre-
parations among all business people in the
afternoon to put an end to the riotous diStur-
Dances up town. would show that it had
stopped money transactions in New York, a
most alarming circumstance, indeed. But
the brokers did not stop the disturbances,
for thew continue all the 10Th, and had not
been Quoted on the 10TH
The leader Of the Times" Of the 18th is
rredicated upon the necessity of putting down
the rioters by force. II says
"The mob in our city is still rampant
Though the increasing display of armed force
has done something to check its more tlagrant
outragcs, it is yet wild with fury, and painting
for fresh havoc. The very fact Of its being
withstood seems only TO give it, for the time,
new malignity.
We trust that Gov Seymour does not mean
to falter. We believe that in his heart he
really intends to vindicatc the majesty of the
law. according to his sworn obligations. But,
in the name of the dignity of Government and
of pubic safety, we protest against any fur
thor Indulgence in the sort Of speech with
which he sought Yesterday to propltlatc tho
mob. Entrcatics and promises are not what
the day calls for No official, however high
his position, can make them, without bringing
public authority into contempt. This monster
is to be met with sword, and that only. lie
is not to be placated with sop: and, if he
were. it would only lie To make him all the
more insatiatc hereafter. In the name of all
that is sacrc. in law and all that is precious III
society, let there he no more of this. There
is force enough ut the command Of Governor
Seymour to maintain civil authority. lie Will
do it. lie cannot but do it. lie is a ruined
man if he fails to do it. This mob is not our
master. 1t IL not t. be compounded with by
paving black mail. 1t il not to be duplicated
and sued to stay its hand. 1t is TO be dctied,
confronted, grappled with. Frustrated, crushed.
The Government of the State Of New York is
its master, not its slave; its ruler, and not its
minion.
Justice and mercy. this time. unite in the
same behest :-Giec Mcm grape, and a plenty
gift.
Editorial No. Q on "Ece,y MINIS Business
ard Duy:"
" 1t is clear that VIC cannot continue in the
wild and lawlcss state that has for two days
prevailed All business suspended, workshops
closed, railways stopped from operating,
streets barricadcd houses Quilted and fired,
and every block in the city alarmed at some
hour in the twenty-innr by threatening crowds
Of riotous mcn-und too frequently violent
collisions of comba,ants, followed by the re-
moyal of bloody corrses from the scenes of
strifc-pcacc and safety. property and
life are all at lIaza'd during every mo-
ment that the sway Of the mob continues
And no citizen can promise himself that, by
remaining passive and declining I" take any I
part in the commotion. he will thereby
escape harm. \ mob is without forethought,
calculation, sense of justice or right 1t is
the incarnation of blind passion, and falls ms
mercileSsly upon the home Of the widow and
orphan as upon that OF an active and hated
enemy. There is peri! everywhere and to ev-
erybody as long as lawlcss men riot through
the city. 1t is as uncertain where their bloody
vengeance will strike as where the pcstilence.
will fall. The supremacy OF the law is the
only safety of every man, woman and child in
New York-it is the only protection of proper
ty and of home. 1t becomes every citizen,
therefore, who has the manhood. to defend
himself his wife and children, and his house
and home, to unite ut once with the organized
forces of the city, and give no thought to any
thing of business or pleasure till every spark
of instruction against society and the laws
is trampled out. One more day well employed
should do the work.
Editorial No. 3-The CoaScripfj0n mast be
enforced:
''Not only must this infamous and dastardly
mob be put down. hut it must be baked in
the object for which it was gotten up. TWAS
ostcnsibly to defeat the enforcement of the
conscription. The CONSUMPTION is Il necessity;
the CONSUMPTION is law: the conscription is
Just 1t is demanded for the suppression of
our heroic but shattered regiments"
The Chimes" says this ''mob should in no
way be allowed to interfere with the enforce
mcnt of the CONSUMPTION law" If not put
down speedily, tive haze not only no Union,
no government, no society, n" civil order. We
have anarchy in its most fri.htful form. We
have the condition of things in this which this
great city has suffered from for the last two
days made permanent. We shall have faction
giving battle to faction, class warning upon
class, sect fighting sect, interest contcnding
with interest, knarcry with honesty, lawlcss-
ness with legality-not in the old arenas not
on the forum and through the press. with the
weapons Of reason AID justice, but with ball,
havonet, bowie-kniie and sluns-Shot, amid
blood, carnage and rapinc."
Editorials No. / and arc in answer to the
following letters from the rioters:
A LETTER FROM ONE OF THE RIOTERS.
MONDAY NlGHr-Ur TowN.
To the Editor of the New York "Timcs :"
You will, no doubt, be hard on US rioters
tomorrow morning, but that 300dollar law
has made us nobodics, ragabonds and cast
outs of society, for whom nobody cares when
We must go to war and be shot down. We
are the poor rabble, and the rich rabble is our
enemy by this law. Therefore we will give
our enemy battle right here, and ask no quar-
ter. Although we got hard fists and are dirty
without, we have soft hearts, and have clean
conscicnces within. and that's tho reason We
love our wives and children more than the
rich, because We got not much besides them;
and We will not go and leave them at hnme
for to starve. Until that draft law is repealed,
for one am willing to knock down more such
rum,holc politicians as Kennedy Why don't
they let the niger kill the slavc-drivins race
and take possession of the South, as it belongs
to them.
A Poor MAN, But MAN FOR ALL THAT.
TIE $500 EXEMPTION.
rn thu EL;tor nf thu Now You'll: sIrirnns.U