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1863

CONSCRIPTION ACT

HABEAS CORPUS

MILITARY DEFEATS

RADICAL REPUBLICAN “FANATICISM”

ABOLITION (EMANCIPATION)

PEACE DEMOCRATS

VALLANDINGHAM

DEBT

TAXES

ARBITRARY POWER

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“NORTHWEST” VS NORTHEAST

WAR FORCES CHANGE IN COMMERCIAL PATTERNS

“BUTTERNUT” NORTH
TRADITIONAL TRADING PARTNERS SOUTH

NOW NORTHEAST/NEW ENGLAND

“WE SHALL SINK AS SERFS TO THE HEARTLESS YANKEES SWINDLED BY HIS TARIFFS, ROBBED BY HIS TAXES SKINNED BY HIS RAILROAD MONOPOLIES.”

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BUTTERNUT REGIONS

IDENTIFY MORE W/ SOUTH

BLAME EAST FOR WAR

“NORTHWEST CONFEDERACY”

“…THE ERECTION OF STATES WATERED BY THE MISSISSIPPI AND IT’S TRIBUTARIES INTO AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC IS THE TALK OF EVERY OTHER WESTERN MAN.” CONGRESSMAN S.S. COX, OHIO

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NATIONAL BANKING ACT 1863

REGULARIZE CURRENCY

“GREENBACKS” ONLY

PASSED INTO LAY FEB. 1863

78% OF REPUBLICANS AFFIRM

91% OF DEMS OPPOSED

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EMANCIPATION

LINCOLN A “…HALF-WITTED USERPER.”

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION “…MONSTEROUS, IMPUDENT, AND HEINOUS…INSULTING TO GOD AS TO MAN, FOR IT DECLARES THOSE AS ‘EQUAL’ WHOM GOD CREATED UNEQUAL.”

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SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS

UNDER THESE PREASURES FROM THE PEACE DEMS

ENTIRE COUNTRY IN REBELLION

LINCOLN: TEMPORARY CURTAILMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTIES DURING WAR NOT FATAL TO LIBERTIES IN PEACE

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CONSCRIPTION ACT 1863 (4 TOTAL) “RICH MAN’S WAR/POORMAN’S FIGHT”

ENLISTMENTS LOW

NEEDS GREAT

VOLS. A STATE RESPONSIBILITY

776,000 CALLED IN THE 4 DRAFTS

<1/5 FAILED TO REPORT

3/5 UNQUALIFIED

87,000 PAID OUT ($300)

74,000 FURNISHED SUBSTITUTES

ONLY 46,000 SERVED*

NYC RIOTS 12-13 JULY 105 DEAD

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IN THE ADMINISTRATION

ATTEMPTED CABINET COUP

SALMON P. CHASE, SEC TREAS.

WILIAM H. SEWARD, SEC STATE

RADICAL REPUBLICANS VS “LUKEWARMERS”

DEC 1-17 ’62

REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL CAUCUS

REORGANIZE THE CABINET (THROW OUT SEWARD)

DEC 19^TH

LINCOLN MEETS W/DELIGATION OF REP SENATORS

DEC 20

LINCOLN WINS

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SOUTHERN GOV’T. APPEARS MORE OF AN OPPRESSOR

STATES’ RIGHTS

TRADITION OF NULLIFICATION

CONFEDERACY

SINEWS OF WAR

WARS ARE EXPENSIVE/TAXES ARE NECESSARY

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1863

COMPREHENSIVE TAX LAW

PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX

8% LEVY ON CERTAIN PRODUCTS

EXCISE AND LICENSE DUTIES

10% PROFITS TAX ON WHOLESALERS

RUN AWAY INFLATION

MONEY IS OF LESS VALUE

SOUTHERN CONGRESS 10% “TAX IN KIND”

LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN ARMY SUPPLY “IMRESSMENT”

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SPRING 18 BREAD RIOTS

WOMEN

ARMED

“SPECULATORS”

RICHMOND 2 APRIL ’63

DOUBLED IN POPULATION

MILITARY OPERATIONS STRESS FOOD STOCKS

HARD WINTER

JEFF DAVIS & MILITIA