In so doing it has evidently been their purpose to consolidate a party by the aid of whose opposition and influence they might prevent enlistments and retard the successful prosecution of the war. The grand jurors therefore invoke the attention of the district attorney of this county to the prosecution of the editors and proprietors named if hereafter, after this public notice of their evil course, they should persist in thus continuing to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the government. 1 Ibid.,

ii., 681.

2 Ibid.,

II., 718.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

No prosecutions resulted, and indeed the admonition thus given had little effect upon the editorial attitude of the newspapers concerned. At the election of 1SG2, when Horatio Seymour was chosen governor, Westchester County gave 7,866 votes for the Democratic State ticket and 5,556 for the Republican, showing a Democratic gain in plurality of more than a thousand votes since the election of 1860. During the celebrated draft riots of 1803 in Now York City there wore various sympathetic disturbances in Westchester County, which are recorded with particularity by Mr. Frederick Whittaker in Scharf's History. On the 14th of July -- the second day of the New York riots -- " crowds visited the enrolling offices of Morrisania and West Farms, tore up the enrolling lists, destroyed the telegraph offices at Williams's Bridge and Melrose, ripped up some rails on the New Haven and Harlem roads near the Bronx River, had pickets on both roads as far as Mount Vernon to signal when a general attempt to tear up tracks might be safe, but were quieted in Morrisania and West Farms by appeals made by Supervisor Cauldwell and Mr. Pierre G. Talman." On the 15th kt the Hudson River train was stopped at Yonkers, the rails having been torn up between that place and the city, so that the Canadian mail had to be taken to New York on the boat.