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RESUMPTION OF
THE DRAFT—OUTSIDE THE PROVOST
MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SIXTH DISTRICT—THE CROWD CHEERS.
RESUMPTION OF THE DRAFT IN
NEW YORK.
DURING the five weeks' interval
that elapsed between the first attempt at effecting a conscription
in the city of New York and the
late order stating that the draft was to be carried out at any cost, surmises
were rife as to the course likely to be taken by Government in the matter. Many
persons thought, or affected to think, that the conscription
was indefinitely postponed, owing
to an unwillingness on the part of the authorities to wound again the fine
feelings of a metropolitan mob by a new exhibition of the unpalatable "black
draught," which so decidedly imparted its color to the four
dark days of July, 1863. There
were not wanting those who averred that the rowdies of New York had once for all
established their superiority over law and order. Others took a very different
view of the matter. It, in their view, was a question (Next
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RESUMPTION OF THE DRAFT—INSIDE THE PROVOST
MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SIXTH DISTRICT—THE WHEEL GOES ROUND.
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