The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-09-07

Commissioners a violent dispute existed.
and the Governor had ordered their re.
moval-would hold no communication
with them. The Mayor, Opdyke, was
| loyal; the Common Council. doubtful
and timid even to cowardice. The un.
cultivated Irish ruled in the elections,
and to them Governor Seymour owed his
place and power. IT, as is reported, he
called the rioters his friends" il was
only a proper recognition Of their ser.
vices On the morning Of Monday, the
| 18th, they rose in a vast multitude in the
upper wards Of the city, and came sweep.
ing down the avenues in a resistless tide
that seemed to meet no impediment.
Every moment the concourse grew in
strength. IL was noticed by an observer
to be twenty minutes in passing a single
point, and reached from side to side OF
the street. The vast crowd set fire 10
the drafting places, beat back the police,
and nearly killed. its Superintendent,
Kennedy. They chased him, half dead
with wounds and bruises through the
streets; he leaped into a pond near For.
ty-seventh Street and escaped 10 do good
service in the later part Of the affray.
All that day the mob, composed chiefly
Of the Irish. ruled the city. They drove
back and dispersed the Invalid Corps
they set fire to great blocks Of buildings;
they murdered harmless negroes; and on
Monday night, except where the police
and the few soldiers kept guard, or pri-
yate buildings were protected by their
owners, New York lay al the mercy Of
the insurgents, blazed with incendiary
fires, and saw murder and rapine prevail
in all its quarters.
The next morning, Tuesday, the rioters
proceeded in more regular manner; as
II to secure their conquest they tore up
the railroad tracks, and cut of all com.
munication with tho country. They
seemed resolved to hold New York
island, and had Lee been able TO spare
them n few troops and officers. might
have beaten of the returning soldiers
They had supplied themselves with arms.
They were mad with rapine and blood.
shed. The secret dens Of the secluded
streets were filed with rich plunder, and
in every part Of the city might be seen
the bodies Of hapless negroes swinging
from lamp posts, or lying bruised and
mangled on the public way The ira
tional hatred Of the Irish for the harm.
less colored people was shown in acts OF
unparalleled barbarity. They murdered
a lame son in the arms Of his mother
Save my mother" he cried. III you kill
me" Two ruffians seized him. a third
struck him on the head with a heavy iron
bar. Colored men chased by the mob
plunged into the river, and sometimes
saved themselves by swimming Women
and children were treated with equal Sc
verify. Often three or four negroes were
found hanging together. Wild Irishmen
were seen dancing around the corpses Of
their victims A great number Of houses
occupied by colored people we're sacked
or burned. The Colored Orphan Asylum
was burned TO the ground. Its troop Of
children, often too young to know their
danger, were moved in n sad procession,
guarded by the police, to the riverside.
and carried 10 a safe retreat Robbery
went on unchecked in all our streets
The fine mansions on the avenues were
laid under contribution. The blaze OF
succession Of fires terrified the city. civil
war ragged in its midst. and the second
day OF the riot seemed more disastrous
than the first.
1t was to the United States soldiers
and General Brown, the commander Of
the troops in the harbor, that the rescue
Of the city was chiefly due. Governor
Seymour had appeared early on the |
scene, had issued a strong proclamation. |
had made his memorable speech, but /
could do no more. lie would hold no /
officially with the Police /
Commissioners he had striven to depose; |
i was well known that his sympathies /
we're not with the national cause. The |
brave Acton, the head of the Commis- /
sion, and his admirable police did all 1
that their strength and numbers allowed 4
10 save the city; they fought successfully 4
against immense odds and Glove the vast i
Of rioters like a fiery torrent /
But 1t was not until General Brown and 4
his well-trained soldiers came into action
hat the insurgents were made to feel 4
hat they had failed The whole city was
now in insurrection; the telegraph told
)f riot, murder and devastation from the
Park to Harlem River. and the seven
lundred regulars. aided by the police.
the island with incessant activ.
~. They attacked the rioters on the
,ast side, swept them away with cannon.
pursued them into the houses, and flung
hem headlong from tall roofs upon the
pavement below. In the Eighth Avenue
! strong barTicade had been formed be-
ween Thirty-seventh and Forty.third
treets by lashing together carts, wagons,
md telegraph poles with the telegraph
wires The side streets were also forti-
led. Against this strong position de-
achment Of regulars marched, aided by
he police; they covered its defenders
With a rapid fire Of musketry. tore away
,arrricade after barricade and shot down
he wild marauders as they fed madly
long the streets. On Wednesday the
lighting was renewed. On Thursday
ieneral Putnam, with the regulars. won
real but bloody victory over the rioters
m East Twenty-ninth Street Yet the
truggle was now over; the various city
egiments began to return from Gettys-
'urg or Philadelphia and the wild.
erce mob Of Irish, who had been reused
nto fury by the arts Of the Democratic
eaders, were crushed into submission.
he Germans, when the danger was at
Is height, sent word to the authorities
hat they would take care Of their own
ection Of the city and preserve the pub
Ic peace.
By the Irish citizens Of New York this
Unhappy episode can never be remcm-
ered without shame. But IL must be
aid in palliation Of their crime that they
Fere ignorant, violent untaught in the
,lainer rules Of civilization, that they
.ad been excited TO madness by the inn
,rudent suggestions Of their Democratic
eaders, and by violent appeals against
and Republicans. The Dem.
cratic meetings throughout the autumn
4 1852 had been filed with the class Of
,ersons who led the riots and robbed the
ity Seymour, Herman, Cox, and Wood
lad never grown weary OF denouncing
he draft and defending the existence of
layery. These topics were the chief sta
lie of every Democratic speech. Nor
lad the priest been more cautious. Al
ways the leader OF a compact Roman
,atholic party, Archbishop Hughes open
y expressed his condemnation of the
lraft in the midst OF the flames Of New
fork and the peril Of the nation. The
Tribune had suggested that he was in
ayor Of draft. In reply the archbishop
the statement "a malignant
ie In a long and singularly Jesuitical