At the appointed hour the space was filled with people for a long distance from the stand which had been erected on the site of the Soldiers' Monument. The following were the officers of the meeting:

President, Mayor William C. Duncan; vice-presidents, Hon. Lewis Cass, Captain Eber B. Ward, Judge B. F. H. Witherell, Hon. C. C. Trowbridge, Hon. John Owen and Hon. Duncan Stewart; secretaries, E. N. Wilcox and William A. Moore. The Mayor briefly addressed the meeting and then introduced the Hon. William A. Howard, who made a stirring address. He was followed by Theodore Romeyn. When T. M. McEntee arose to speak the noise of rowdies prevented him. Recorder Henry A. Morrow then spoke as follows:

Fellow Citizens-We are met here now in the second crisis of our country. [Confusion among the crowd.] There is a mistaken feeling that this meeting is preliminary to a draft. Enough can be procured without such measures. Every one who can, should go, and the men who stay at home must support the families of those who go. This meeting is for inducing men to volunteer, and I for one, am ready to go. [Cheers.] Those of us who have no families should go. I do not propose that men of families shall perform duties that we young men should perform. [Cheers.] Let each man ask himself: 'Will I go?' [A voice-Will you go?'] I have already said I would. The government has done as much for me as for you and I am ready to assist in upholding it. [Cheers and confusion.]

RIOTOUS DEMONSTRATIONS.

The meeting ended in confusion. A few dozen secession sympathizing rowdies were distributed about the crowd and their howls prevented the speakers from being heard. Windsor, across the

Detroit river in Canada, had become the receptacle of a lot of Southerners who had re-inforced the mob. The instigators had reported that the meeting was to prepare for a draft. When Wm. A. Howard moved a committee to "draft" resolutions, an old eighth-warder exclaimed: "Did you hear that boys? Didn't I tell ye they are going to draft?" And the riotous howls began.

The scoundrels seemed to have a spite against Capt. Eber B. Ward and Hon. Duncan Stewart, two noted Detroit business men and Unionists. They rushed for these gentlemen, and only by the utmost exertions of Sheriff Mark Flanigan did they find refuge in the Russell House. The mob next broke down the speakers' stand, tore the Union bunting into strings, and insulted the officers and speakers of the meeting. The venerable Lewis Cass barely escaped their vengeance as they rushed upon his carriage. Next the mob sought the Russell House entrance with the avowed intention of hanging Messrs. Ward and Stewart, but were met by Sheriff Flanigan and a deputy, with drawn revolvers, who held the mob at bay for an hour and until darkness ended the riot.

The Advertiser and Tribune thus mentioned the affair:

The meeting was one of the most melancholy spectacles it was ever our lot to witness. At an early hour, a rowdy element of formidable dimensions was present, composed of bigoted, ignorant persons who had evidently been tampered with through political prejudice.

The Detroit Free Press thus spoke of the riot:

We regret the disturbance at the meeting. So far as we can ascertain, the origin of the difficulty was a rumor that the government intended to draft. It was so utterly without foundation that we cannot resist the conviction that their motives were infamous. Yet, if the exigencies of the war require a draft, we do

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THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN PROJECTED.

This disgraceful event occurred near the spot where General Hull humiliatingly surrendered the city to the British fifty years before, when General Lewis Cass broke his sword in disgust. It was a dark week for the City of the Straits. Other cities of the North were holding successful war meetings. Cititizens gathered in knots to discuss the matter. Deep humiliation and indignation prevailed. To wipe out the disgrace it was resolved at a meeting of patriotic citizens at the Michigan Exchange the next evening to raise an extra regiment in Detroit and Wayne County, in addition to their quota.

For this purpose Adjutant-General John Robertson and Henry Barns of the Advertiser and Tribune went to Jackson to confer with Governor Blair.

MRS. BLAIR'S TIMELY INFLUENCE.

The Governor had met with some difficulty in getting troops accepted by the War Department. He had sent sixteen infantry regiments, and the seventeenth was being recruited with difficulty. Six new ones were called for, which would make twenty-three; and to attempt the twenty-fourth might retard the raising of the others. His consent was withheld until morning, when he refused. Mrs. Blair had been a listener to the conversations for the extra regiment, and now told her husband that the morning papers brought bad news from the seat of war; that the government needed all the men it could get, and that, in her opinion, the request of the two gentlemen from Detroit should be granted, and the Governor finally consented. Little did this patriotic lady think that her influence on this occasion would be productive of a regiment which, within one year, would rank among the most distinguished in the army, by its suffering the greatest loss of over 400 regiments in the greatest and bloodiest battle of the war.

SECOND WAR MEETING ON THE CAMPUS MARTIUS.

On Saturday, July 19, the indignation of the citizens found vent in over 3,000 signatures to the following call:

Come forth in your

MEN OF DETROIT! The fair fame of your city is at stake. might and prove your patriotism to meet the crisis. Your friends from many a stricken field call you to the rescue. Shall a few pestilent sympathizers with treason neutralize your patriotic effort? Let an expression go forth which shall rebuke the traitors and vindicate the patriotism of the city. All who favor an energetic prosecution of the war are requested to meet on the Campus Martius on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, July 22, 1862.

Long before that hour the people began to assemble in numbers to cause every patriot to rejoice. Processions from foundries, machine shops, and shipyards filed about the speakers' stand, which was located on the present City Hall side of the Campus. Far up every street was a mass of determined and enthusiastic patriotism—some with molding clubs for any secesh rowdies who should open their blatant mouths. The meeting was called to order by the Hon. E. C. Walker, and the following officers chosen: President, Mayor Duncan; vice-presidents, Hon. Lewis Cass, Ross Wilkins, Judge Witherell,