I was just pointing out the error of your statement. And it would have been hard for Davis to separate himself from the disorder since it was happening right outside his door.
errr...I didn't make that statement, but they were not rioting against Davis' polices. They were a unruly, ulawful mob that was destroying private property. He had every right to issue the order.
Eventually numbering some 50,000 people, the mob terrorized neighborhoods on the East Side of New York for three days looting scores of stores. Blacks were the targets of most attacks on citizens; several lynchings and beatings occurred. In addition, a black church and orphanage were burned to the ground.
But so did the New York Draft Riots
Willing to fight for Uncle Sam", but not "for Uncle Sambo", said one Pennsylvania newspaper. First Lincoln freed the slaves and now he was conscripting Northern men into the army and forcing them to fight and die to make his proclamation a reality. Thus reasoned many white workers in the North who were concerned about free blacks competing for their jobs. The unfair draft laws caused deep resentment throughout the North, and in the summer of 1863 protests and outbreaks of violence were common in virtually every Northern state. Secret societies were formed to organize resistance to the draft, and draft officers were assaulted.
Interesting quote from a Pennsylvania newspaper. Tell me, is Pennsylvania in the South? I forget. I thought it was over slavery and the utter despise that only the evil Southerners showed towards blacks.