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Jip|| siome Things About the !Vew York Riots.It seems to us important that some thingsshould be especially considered in relation===== to the recent terrible riots in New York, and etorw. for wjjich? in whole or in part, there are soHg.j* many apologists. Some precedent facts' should be borne in mind in order to correct-| ly weigh and apply those connected withmonth, the riots themselves. The riots were osten-25ct1? sibly in opposition to the draft.Now, whatever rnay be the hardships of^ 00 • the draft whatever may be Ihe severities ordO | - *inequalities of the Conscription Act itself,1 there are no greater sacrifices required of/drafted men, than have been voluntarilymade by thousands and tens of thousandsin!' of volunteers. The draft could not find acase, where it would cost the dratted man •v Co. Jmore, leave his family in a more helplessr, condition, or impose a more heavy load uponL V O# ; \him, than some volunteer had voluntarily as-pn sumed in order to serve his country and putdown rebellion. Then, ought the sacrificesj i ' . * ™ ^ ^(. of the battle field, all to be borne bv thewilling? Ought only volunteers to have to [ pay the price, by which our country andits institutions were originally secured and j bv which they alone could he preserved and j e reb- perpetuated? Is a law awful which only in pas imposes a burthen, which thousands freely•antic * UP0U themselves of choice ?art of ^ul' the New York mob was os-ras to fensibly against the draft, it was really [\ Yal- j more against the )neu being secured to carry v y ^ j on the war to put down the rebellion, than* i •in his ! i* was against the operation of the law it-e said ^ draft in the City of New York fortnd he men to ^e^t against Great Britain, would ill cal- 1 *iave provoked no bloody riots. It would ■ inva- not have been met by anathemas and curses, ived in b°rn assaults of men who deliberatelylierever incited the opposition which culminated insuch horrible scenes. The New York riots er was were against men 1*einy funu-h't hy th* Ira ft to de the put down the rebellion.pt op ■ j Just consider a few facts tending to show■vfpni a this was the case. It was the Woodrr ears,j) j'o Democracy, the Anti-War Democracy ofI New York which was at the bottom of the e as he riots. Ben. Wood, Fernando Wood. JudgeIole the I McCunn. Marshal Kvnders. the men who
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Daily Commercial Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 31, 1863
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