21 OCTOBER 1916, Page 3

Timid people, including, as we have said, the Governor of

the State, came to Mr. Lincoln and threatened and cajoled. If be insisted on the Draft in New York, the Irish mob would rise in resistance. In that case there would be a new civil war. He would have to bring home from the front indefinite numbers of troops to put down the rebels. The extreme Democrats, the "Copperheads," and his political opponents generally, would take the opportunity of s rebellion in New York to make every kind of mischief, national and international. The game was not worth the. candle. The number of men he would actually got would be small, perhaps smaller than that he would lose in fighting. Gentler and more peaceful means would achieve what coercion would fail to do, and so on and so on and so on.