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* f \ "A EL »nM, WROES DCW YORKERS KILLED MANY IN FAMOUS WAR RIOTS v OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION \ * ' Terrible Times in Great City When United States Government TjrJed to J^orce Mon to Join the Army Against the South—Troops Restor ed Order. England right now Is experiencing qualms about conscription. “Civil utar" and “social revolt” are terms that are linked with any discussion the subject, says the Kansas City that ! opened their booths the city was thrown into a state of bloody riot that lasted nearly a week, in which many were killed and wounded and property damaged to the extent •f S2.000,000. In January, 1863, the Quarterly Review published an article urging conscription. It sdid: v ‘The country calls for sacriflces at the commands of duty, and a people that refuses to make them l as ceased to be worthy •f liberty or nationality.” The South was forcing its men into service, and the North was trying to •■gin rtiB -war wtttr votuntpgffr ah7 house was showered instantly with bricks and stones, and a wild mob rushed in, driving out the officers and clerics ' With bricks and c clubs. The papers were tor~ up and the 1 books destroyed. ‘ Some one produced a can of tur pentine and. poured it oyer the fdrnl- ture and struck a match. Policemen and draft officers made a feeble at tempt to disperse the rtot<yyi, afl,d check the flames, but they were driven off by. a bombardment 6f stones. John.'A. Kennedy, superintendent of pplice, appeared in response to a rush t?aH.' He was not in uniform, but he was recognized and was set upon and severely beaten. The mob gained in fury. A small force of the Invalid corps was rushed tQJt.be scene of trouble; But was overpowered and driven off. fry that time the rioters numbered thousands Instead of hun dreds. The firemen were called out, but they loitered on the way and when they did appear they were* greeted with jeers and derisive applause. They -made no attempt to save the burning -building, but succeeded in stopping the spread of the flames after several adjoining buildings had been destroyed. The mob began to march through the streets. The loafers of 10,000 saloons poured out and Joined the procession. Word was spread through the city of the success of the insur rection, and men who opposed the draft turned out by the thousands. There was no force to cope with the situation. The police, although well organized, were powerless. The city’s militia was in thfi^Intefior of Pennsylvania' and there was only a small military force at Governor's Island—a handful—In the forts com- The vast majority of men do not volunteer for war. The United States found that out in the rebellion and kad to use the draft. An4 the draft was, in a way, the last resort. It produced results. 1 It is said that England dares not try conscription In the face of the present opposition, but conscription la the United States, too, was bitterly opposed. It was charged that the administration was reckless and irre sponsible and was promulgating the doctrine of compulsory military ser vice to further political ends. Lin coln was slandered and abused. Vwr *j cent, T of ®P*h}ianding the. flea-approaches. 5 0- _ ti0,l l-“ d . The mob-moved oVSr^he city call ing at gas houses, railroad offices, workshops and factories demanding that all work be stopped and the laborers join the ranks!'; Through either sympathy or cowardice the de mands were generally granted. Ily 3 o’clock In the afternoon the city was in a tournioil. Drunken, hellowing men roamed the streets, plundering shops and attacking dwellings of persons said to favor conscription. The lowest elements in the city swarmed out by tens of thousands and r us hod- —through—street—after ■ot succeeding to any great extent. Some one pointed out that the Con federates had come nearer taking Washington than the federals had taking Richmond. Many newspapers opposed the draft in fiery editorials. The New York Daily News said: “The mis creants at the head of the govern- ■ent are bending all their power to securing a perpetuation of their ascendency for another four years, aad their triple method of accom plishing this purpose is to kill off Democrats, stuff the ballot box with | bogus soldier votes and deluge the S usant district with negro suffrage, i people are notified that one out of about two and a half of our eitl- as are to t>e brought off into Lincoln & Co.'s charnel house. God forbid!” The World said: “Weak and reck less men at the hoad .of the govern- ment are forcing conjcrlption as an unnecessary stretch of governmental control over Individual liberty.” But the government had to take the risk. The Confederacy, on April 19, 1862, had adopted a measure placing all white men between the ages of 18 and 25 at the disposal of their executive, and those already en listed for one or two years were noti- led that they would be held for the duration of the war. Nearly a year later the Union was struggling along with the volunteer system and meeting reverses. Like England of to-day, the pleas to patriotism were about exhausted and thousands of able bodied men, were shirking from battle. Human life then, as now, was not the cheapest thing, despite such fatuous state ments. Men lost in battle could not be replaced in munitions factories Lincoln summed the situation up. “We are contending with an enemy who, as T understand,” he said, “drives every able bodied man he can reach into his ranks very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen. No time is wasted, no argument used. This produces an army with a rapidity not to be match ed on our side if we first waste time to experiment with the volunteer sys- tem.” , ' • Conscription was decided upon and adopted iMarch 3, 1863, by a vote of 115 to 49 in the House. A motion to delay the measure was overwhelm ed in the Senate, and it Was adopted without a roll call of the yeas and nays. The act provided that all men, in cluding negroes and aliens who had declared for citizenship, between the ages of 18 and 45, were to be draft ed by the president, at his decretion, for not more than three years. Those between the ages of 20 and 35 were tp be in the first class and the others in the second. Federal provost mar shals were to enroll the men within the scope of th6 act and those not reporting were to be considered as deserters. A commutation of service could be bought for $300. Federal judges and, governors of 1 states were exempt, as were only sons of widowed and»de pendent mothers or of aged and in firm fathers. Fathers of motherless childrefi less than 12 years old were excluded, and there were several other classes set aside. — The first draft for conscript In New York waa advertised dor July 13, 1863. la the days Immediately pre ceding incendiary handbills had ap peared mysteriously and had incited revolt. Several newspapers denounc- ed the draft-^-or any form of con scription—as needless, unconstitu tional and outrageous. It was as serted that the enrolment from New York was too high already and that there would he fraud In drawing the »Vi' ‘ street. It was worse the two follow ing days. A negro boy was chased at full speed by a hundred white men. Negroes were turned oat of their houses, ‘beaten and several were killed. Others, la abject fear, hid. A negro man was hanged on a busy street, his clothes set afire and Ills body left hanging for hours. The Negro Orphan Asylum, at Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth street, was sacked and burned while tiie two hundred inmates fled. The furniture was carried out aad taken away by the women folk of the rioters. An enrolling office at twenty- ninth street and Hroadwuy stood in a block of stores, one of which was a goldsmith's shop, seavlly stocked with Jewelry. Every store was loot ed and strip|>ed and the buildings set afire. Firemen wero forbidden to fight the flames. In twenty minutes the walls crashed down and then the firemen were allowed tp play their hose. The riots kept up for three days. In Brooklyn a grain elevator valued at $100,000 was burned. A small body of soldiers was called in from duty on the harbor, and they, with a body of militia hastily mustered in, began crowding the mob back into its own quarters. There was more fighting for a time, but less plunder ing and burning, and- the riotprs be gan to lose spirit as they saw their members fall before rifle bullets. A number were killed. The climax had been reached. Gov. Seymour addressed ♦he rioters from the city hall and premised to use his influence In Washington to have the draft suspended. News of Federal successc- also sapped enthusiasm. The disturbances dwindled down to Isolated robberies and attacks upon negroes. One force of rioters, however, held the eastern upper part of the city, where there were many large tene ment houses. It was in that district that a Col. O’Brien, commander of a volunteer regiment, had been follow ed to his home the second day and beaten to death. HIej body was then dragged through the sheets with a rope around his neck. ^ The rioters made their last stand Thursday evening near Twenty-third street and Third avenue. A small body of so.ldlers opened fire on men who wore stoning them from house tops. Other soldiers entered the .houses and made prisoners of all the men they found. * Thirteen rioters were killed, eightoen wounded and twenty-four made prisoners. Several regiments of militia ye turned from Pennsylvania and were soon followed by veterans from the Army of the Potomac. Riots ceased There had been similar and simul taneous disturbances in Boston,*Jer sey City, Troy and Jamaica-amd in many other places, but they wen ended With the collapse of the New vr ''"k insurrejbtiapu f , 'lie city authorities, to avoid fur tlier trouble, hon-Owed and appro priated large sums of money to pa) for volqptpers, and the city’s quota was filled Without conscription. Con scription, however, went on through out the Union, and Grant was enabled to raise the gigantic armies tha; rushed the rebellion. - . . .• SENATORS TALK OUT PARTY LINES OBSCURED 1GN AFFAIRS DISCUSSED VARIOUS* ANGLES Lodge whether It trri unneutral for Norway, Ddhmark, Sweden and Hol land to place an embargo on muni tions after the' wax began. - Senator' Lodge said he thought not, because that act did not dhangfr^a condition. “Placing of the embargo by these nations,” Senator Hitelleock replied, “deprived Germany of a safe method of procuring munitions and other contraband from thofee countries and yet no one was beard to claim thdt CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND L FARMERS EXCHANGE President Wilson Gets Praise FrOi Republicans and Knocks From Democrats—James Sharp Williams * Vigorously Praises Clear Visioned Man in White House. i : , • Bonds of restraint against public discussion of international relations of the United States Incident to the European war were broken In the Senate Wednesday, and for more than an hour the session was enlivr ened by debate over the government’s neutrality policy, exports of war munitions and travel by American citizens on belligerent-owned ships. There was no division of the de baters along party lines. Senator Jones of Washington, Republican, denounced as “unpatriotic” American citizens who imperilled the nation by taking passage on belligerent vessels. Senator Works, or California, Repub lican, asserted that tjie goveinment of the United States'was “hypocriti cally” claiming to be neutral when It was in fact participating in the war through the sale of munitions. Senator Lodge, ranking TtcpubTIcan member of the foreign relations com mittee, declared that to plhce an em bargo on arms now would be worth more to Germany, than"'* million men, “It would be grossly unneutral” and would, in fact, make the United States the ally of Germany! Senators O’Gornian of New York and Hitchcock of Nebraska, ;^oth Democrats, urged the advisability -of an embargo on munitions. Senator O’Gorman also informed the Senate that American Consul R. N. McNeely, who lost his life on the British liner reraia, had disregarded the advice of American Consul General Skinner, at London, that he make the journey to Aden on a Dutch vessel. The discussion was precipitated when Senator Jones read a news paper editorial urging American citl- sene to keep off bolligerent ships and advising the president to proceed slowly in the present crisis, heeding the Interest of ninety-nine millions of Americans rather than that of a "thousand reckless, inconsiderate and unpatriotic citizens who insist on traveling on belligerent ships.” Senator Nelson of Minnesota, Re publican, aroused Senator O'Gorman by asking whether Senator Jones re garded Consul McNeely unpatriotic because he sailed for hia post on the Persia. After the New York senator had explained that McNeely. had de clined to heed Consul General Skin ner's advice to sail on a Dutch ship. Senator Works blazed the way to general debate on the position of the United States in the war by declaring the American government was not neutral. Asserting at the outset that the government shared responsibility for deaths of Americans on the Lusitania the California senator said: “The government knew that the Lusitania was loaded to the guards with ammunition and explosives. Pas sengers were permitted in spite of this, to travel on the vessel. , The government Itself, in full knowledge that the ship carried munitions of war, Is morally responsible for the deaths of our citizens.” When Senator Works declared the United States actually was partici pating in the war by the sale of munitions Senator Reed, Democrat, interrupted to ask: “Does the senator know that the first loan placed in this country after the war jiegan was a loan of ,^25,- ar pe| 000,00# to Germany, and that 1 the loan was made without protest from him or any other citizen? Does the senator not know that Germany pro cured arms in this country as long as It was possible for her to get them?” "That may all be true,” Senator Works replied, “but it does not alter the situation.” “If It be true,” continued Senator Reed, “that the markets of this country are free and open to Ger many as well as to all other coun tries, and that this government does not distinguish' between any belliger ent nations, then Low can the ( ppna- tor say that this goitefftm^ht ’ taken an unneutral position?” “It is impossible to get arms to Germany, and I say it is morally wrong fqjv tifis-goverament to permit shipments of arms to any of the bel ligerents,” Senator Works insisted. He added that his principal objection was based on a conviction that the Upited States was aiding in prolong ing the war and the killing of men. and that he would not only! put an embargo on munitions, but also on shipment of food and plothing to the armies of Europe. . - Senator Lodges in upholding the position of the United States as to the shipment of munitions, engaged In a- ’engthy colloquy with Senators O’Corman, Hitchcock and others. "Our markets are open to all the world to buy,” said Senator Lodge 5 ' “A condition has been created by this war,_.and by the war alone, which irevents one or more belligerents buying-in this market! " ff we under ake to reverse S cpndltlbn created by the war we at once enter Into tbf* —ar and endeavor to restore a otfndi •Ion existing before the war, and that s an act of unneutrallty// “Evidently In time of war, such as s now disturbing the peace of the ■ orid.” Senator O’Gorman rejoined almost any act of a neutral power regard*#-eon as an act >f partiality, but :n my judgment ’*><■ government, if it deemed it bee' pr the American nation and the b*s‘ eeurity of ponce with all the natter ould place an embargo against t o hipment of inanition* to any bellig- ng Itself to (be neutrality. Mexico furnished the took llllams of V|ississippl, lead! - ' lon^ Dfon'dffSr on President Information be nitlon of the Car by the United States'J Senators Fall and that the president should ft gross fully: concerning the sJ before the nomination of an ar sador to Mexico was confirmed. upon' .questions arising European war. He said from string” the United States^ Senator Rorah wanted to whether the Mississippi s< thought that after the war the United States spirit of conquest.” replied. “out of a consent to be bullied. I will tell i senator why I anticipate bullying, great power In Europe to-day Yorkshire Pigs—$5; seven weeks ofd. S. W. Hayes Lenoir, N. C. has Rulgars Grant Money for War. A .war credit of one hundred mil 'Ion. dollars was enthueiastlcally ap proved by the Bulgarian parliament 'ays a dispatch to the London Time from Saloniki. All sections of the opposition voted , with the govern •pent. names from the Wheel. The morning the enrolling officers took their stations crowds began to •epedallY in the uptown dls- where there was a compact, foreign Thorn laboring population. The drawing commenced at a house at Forty-ninth street ard Third ave- a knndred uamea had when a Many Flee Into Greece. Telegrams from Athens say tha* the- number of Serb'an refugees-fi-. Greek territory is now forty thou *aod. of whom six thousand ar* m Aetonlkl * ^ - ncaret*** for Armies. Twelve carloads of cigarette* hav< reached Savannah from ▼a.. «■ roate u tile British amPiTTiT ThFirPtiFin y 1 vrs Trcrrs-ncis ed some very delicate questions v that power. They remain to be tied. There will be plenty of di| matlc talk and there will be nle to quarrel' about. . "They are in the field of di| macy now and the president of United States has very wisely tempted to keep them within the f wisely handled by a man long v ioned and deep visioned and tent visioned than we have. He has three of them: They are apt to mismanaged when they are made game of battledore and shuttleco on the floor of these two houst even when I am one who plays t game. * * “You tsk me what we are goli to expect aggression abou(. My a swer Is, we havd alteady had It slon, and If after having that brought to the attention of a great power, the great power talks, and if while It is talking it perpetrates the same crime on the same crew of the inferior ship, and after having made an apology it perpetrates the same ertmfe upon the crew of still another ship, and if then It has agreed that the future policy shall be limited by our demands, another ally of the same power perpetrates the same crime on still another ship, and then tells us in high toned dogmatism of diplomacy we have never discussed the matter with them and they had right to murder women, children and men non-combatanta on an unarmed ship after their allies agreed not to do it on the high diplomatic grounds that we had never discussed it with them Referring to alleged| attempts to weaken the Democratic administra tion through airing of views on the war. Senator Williams asserted: “I for one decline to bring a great international question do.wn into the dust and sweat and turmoil of politi cal discussion. I will only say that there is in the White House aj. this time one who has deep vision, long vision, a vision which after it sees and before it advised action, consid ers thoughtfully not only American humanity, but humanity all over the world.” RUSSIANS ADVANCING • ^ ♦ > Vienna JReports Enormous Losses to Hosts of the Czar. Everywhere in the Stripa and Vol- hynian districts of Russia and'ra east Galicia the Russians are on the offensive, the official communications from bdth Petrograd and Vienna re veal. Cznerowitz, capital of Buko- wina, is the position around which the most important fighting is in pro gress. , —4^ The Russian war office reports that the Russians have occupied a line of trenches northeast of Czernowitz' amf have repulsed strong counter attacks. A' Reuter dispatch from Petrograd gives a report of tbe'evacuation of (’zernowitz and the capture by the Russians of a large number of pris oners, including Germpni SeecLPeannts—Best var' ty fdr hogs, , 95c bu. here cash. Christian'Dick son Co., McIntosh, Fla. > FOR SALE—115 acres good clay land near Swansea, Lexington coun- . ty; 40 acroa"cultivated. Price, $3,- 500. Address J. E. Patrick, Wolf- ton, S. C. Boys and Girle—Earn a watclj, brace let or necklace by selling only 40 packages chewing gum. ‘We trust you. Order ' tb-day. Leonhardt, Lowell, N. C. j i * ' . Tr . Frost proof cabbage plants now ready \for immediate shipment; all leading varieties, $1 per 1,000, or 5,000 for $4. jWrite D. B. Ott, Columbia, S. C., R. FVp. 4. . FOR SALE—^Finely ground Phos phate Rock, fall^'-winter and spring deliveries.-Prompt Shipment. Write for prices to McCABE FERTILIZER CO., Charleston, S. C. \ Agents—If you want to earn more money, send for cour catalogue of- repeat order articles.. 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The events of the day -hajjLincseased the tension to a high pitch, notably the action of the Labor Congress and the quick sequel of the retirement of three Labor members pf the ministry. The vote was shortly-after eleven o’clock. The minority was composed of Nationalists, some Laborltes and $ TU j i Wanted—Furs, hides, beeswax, tal low, all grades scrap metals, rubber, etc. Ip market for iron, carload lots. Write us full.description what you have. Fifteen years experience has taught us proper outlet. Satis faction guaranteed. Prices and tags on Yequest. H. S. Waddell and Co., Sumter, S. C. — FOR SALE—"Florida Phosphate Rock very finely ground, analysis 68 per cent, bone Phosphate Lime Equivalent to 21.75 Total Plios- .phoris Acjd at $6.75 Bulk or $8 bagged and tagged f. o. b. Charles ton. Terms cash against documents. 'December-January shipment. A. F. Pringler30 4 Brbad Street,,Charles ton. S. C. \ , ’fe lls. Two yean of uachecked maqllnp is a hlq price for the common peopU if a nation to pay for tha pleasure of haring a volunteer army. In eaqa of war you need what yea mead when ■ The Labor Congress has gope on record against the bill Introduced in ♦he House of Commons for compni- eory military seryic*. recommending that the members of the Labor party "a parliament oppose the bill at nil '^By n vote of 79I.999. tha I to support a demand for the with drawal of the compulsory service bill from parliament. Arthur Henderson, president of the board of education and leader of The Labor,.party in the House qf Com- nrolis; William Brace, parliamentary under-secretary for home affairs, and George H. Roberts, lord commission er of the treasury, also Labor party leaders, have resigned from the min-, istry. . . The resignations of Mr. Henderson, Mr. Brace and Mr. Roberts were the 'direct outcome of the LabQr/€e«r gress, which had followed'by a tw(^ house conference among the_fearlia- menlary Labor menihers. At the close of the latter conference the-an nouncement was made of the with- dlawal of the three I.abdr members in the coalition ministry. - There are now four vacancies in ! the coalition mUJistry, including that cause by the resignation of Sir John A. Simon, the home secretary. Gos-- sip already is busy over the probable successors of the outgoing ministers. I # # + ‘ Protest to England. The United States has sent a note ■rigowQflly prdtestlur flgalhst the British authorities interfering with and censoring malls from the United State* to neutral European-countries. 100. EOO Montenegrins Drown. Twer hundred Montenegrins from JSSjf Jg* thjrtr live. Friday by the sinking of M Italian « mlB* la (to •v