LINCOLN ABRAHAM The Military Conscription Law State Laws Dis

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. The Military Conscription Law! State Laws Disregarded! The Able-Bodied Citizens Handed Over to the President! White Men and Negroes Mixed in! The State has no Voice over her Own Citizen Soldiery! Four pages. Folio leaf, folded to make four tall narrow 4to pages. The first page in the form of a sensational broadside; paper evenly toned. Np, [Connecticut, 1863]

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a scarce copperhead, anti-lincoln, anti war fulmination over the 1863 conscription act. The deadly draft riots in New York City overshadowed others in New England and elsewhere. The Irish and German working class immigrants were the ones most affected by the draft. They rose up and destroyed property in Boston and even Rutland Vermont. In Boston the number of blacks killed and injured was certainly underreported, as were the figures for other cities that erupted over the bill. The text following the sensational first page of this piece is simply the Conscription Act itself with all 38 'and be it further enacted' points spelled out. OCLC locates only four copies of this piece.