Posted on 07/14/2023 6:09:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The initiation of the draft on Saturday in the Ninth Congressional District was characterized by so much order and good feeling as to well-nigh dispel the forebodings of tumult and violence which many entertained in connection with the enforcement of the conscription in this City. Very few, then, were prepared for the riotous demonstrations which yesterday, from 10 in the morning until late at night, prevailed almost unchecked in our streets. The authorities had counted upon more or less resistance to this measure of the Government after the draft was completed, and the conscripts were repaired to take their place in the ranks, and at that time they would have been fully prepared to meet it; but no one anticipated resistance at so early a stage in the execution of the law, and, consequently, both the City and National authorities were totally unprepared to meet it. The abettors of the riot knew this, and in it they saw their opportunity. We say abettors of the riot, for it is abundantly manifest that the whole affair was concocted on Sunday last by a few wire-pullers, who, after they saw the ball fairly in motion yesterday morning prudently kept in the back ground. Proof of this is found in the fact that as early as 9 o'clock, some laborers employed by two or three railroad companies, and in the iron foundries a the eastern side of the City, formed in procession in the Twenty-second Ward, and visited the different workshops in the upper wards, where large numbers were employed, and compelled them, by threats in some instances, to cease their work. As the crowd augmented, their shouts and disorderly demonstrations became more formidable. The number of men who thus started out in their career of violence and blood,
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The Mob in New-York: Resistance to the Draft-—Rioting and Bloodshed – 2-5
The Expected Battle: Our Forces Steadily Closing Around Lee – 5-6
Movements of John Morgan: Invasion of Ohio – 6
Charleston Again: Another Attack Reported to be Imminent – 7
The Battle of Gettysburgh: The Second Vermont Brigade – 7-8
News from Washington – 8
Editorial: The Riots Yesterday – 8
Editorial: Crush the Mob! – 8-9
Shall Ruffians Rule Us? – 9
The Mob and the Press – 9
Editorial: A Special Force Required – 9
Editorial: Presidential Candidates and the Command of the Army – 9-10
Morgan’s Raid and the Panic in Cincinnati – 10
Gen. Harvey Brown – 10
The Draft Riots of 1963 didn’t really require the mob. Those boys didn’t want to go and die in a war they didn’t believe in
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