The evening world., 1912-01-03
The Story
OF Our Country
BY Albert Payson Terhune
No. 39-Dark Days and RiOting.

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f17Q y a crowded ONCE at Third avenue and Forty-sisth street New
York City, on tho morning of July IL, 1853, a number OF slips ot
paper ere tossed into a wheel. which was then spun rapidly
- Tho men whose names we're written on the first slips Of psoS
drawn then from the wheel vcre drafted" as soldiers for the civil var
In the midst Of the drawing" a paving stone smashed through III window
Then came a whole flight Of stones. A mob burst into the omos :
wrccklng everything in sight, beating the officials who were on duty here\
and winding ZIP the performance by setting fro TO the building Tb's
flames spread throughout the block. This was the first move in an upraaDs0
that for nearly four days left New York City helpless under mob rule. Al
number OF events led M to II. but the draft was Its immediate cause
Tho civil war had dragged on for more than two ,Gr. paraiystno
many Industries, devastating homes and spreading poverty broadcast Thu
"a was costing the nation almost three million dollars a day. Qt Is sAa3
donars) To meet this burden terribly cav x werc levied. The people e
wrs o only forced 20 carry those taxes. but were nrafsd at uno" ~
epecuatns snd sraftrs n dishonest manufacturers were pnns vi husa 81
The enthusiasm that had bhszcd from Oh .nd of ~&
to die down. Stories IF hardship. of peril Of the slrNSSe
S~~~~~~~~S in southern war prisons deferred nncn from enN.nas NM
numtcro t recruits fen. or And eve, from the front asn4
tho clamor To- more men TO replace the thousands of slain There ~Ns nY
s"%usn o "h,a enlistment 10 mn me gap IN the u. e o me .sv@omsnS
centase ~ tho population serve as soldiers whether they would or 70. Hsae&
service had the privilege OF hiring a SUBSTITUTE ,nstead OF so!ns to the Apad
themselves. a substitute costs $500: and IN those hard times few poor na C&ll
afford such a sun. Ev~ywhere there vas mao" d,scon;snt But In Ssv ss"i
lost OF the local militia had been drawn away from New York % $~npths
voney at the Grove tina, DESTROYED n. Torty.sxth stree, dra,. once. nss ~
next routed by the mob. Negroes las te race indirectly and innocenuy recon
aMet for. he var we're hunteda down.. beaten to death or hanged. re ooim.A
Orphan Asylum was burned. The armory on Second avenue as sesed looted
fire, sanss of toushs stole everything they could la hands o II. A variable
Not until lat. or n. fourth day as The up..ant
"chansics ~as tonpo os T" s "sSs %%D 't ALSO .'t thousan n%' IN m tr usaas
Generals" had poured into New York and bodies 9, cayalrymcn VA
parorng the streets The danger "a over. No N wMs
"verk mo- tstw VIA IN" Draft Riots cost in lfca ant property. Ninety dathsf front
sunsiot wounds alone were reported. And danas. claims to III amour, q
pcaceably continued for nmo days 4
Meantime. in tn wca nd in The far south thu Union forces. we're. .te.dus
Northern armios And Richmond dc keystone Of the whole Confederacy) w2
Diminishing mo commanding general fcr anothcra soon Al each proved un.b(
to lead the EAR Army Of tho Potomac to Victory in Virginia. In th: way Mcclsl.n]
experiments. the right mn chosen.