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From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 9, 1863:
Results of drafting in the North.
The Old Guard, of New York, gives the following specimen of the process of drafting in Michigan:
“Of forty-one men drafted in Clinton county, Michigan, thirty-two have escaped to Canada, which, if not “the land of the brave,” is at least the “home of the free.”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 10, 1863:
New Substitute for black slavery.
Parke Godwin, editor of the Evening Post. (New York,) says that “if slavery is to continue in this country we want the Irish Catholics to take the places of the negroes, and let the more intelligent and more virtuous blacks be liberated. ” “Such an abominable sentiment is entirely worthy of the man who utters it — a man who saves like one in bedlam against the Constitution of his country, and slanders every white man who is not a negro in his heart.”–N. Y. Old Guard.
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 10, 1863:
Three likely free negro men for sale at Auction.
–By virtue of an order of the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond made in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of Virginia. I will sell, in front of the City Hall, on Monday next, the 13th inst, (that being Court day) at 10 o’clock, A. M, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following free negroes, convicted of grand larceny and ordered by said Court to be sold into absolute slavery, viz: Edward George H Willey, and William Jones. These men are young, sound, and likely, and worthy the attention of dealers.
Thos B Dudley,
Sergeant city of Richmond
C. Chauncey Burr published and wrote for The Old Guard beginning in 1863. The magazine was anti-war and pro-slavery.
Here’s a little sound from the July 1863 issue:
A new phrase has lately appeared in this country, very much as Satan’s face first appeared in Paradise.-It is “the war power,” as something above the Constitution, which is declared to be “the supreme law of the land.” It is a new doctrine in America. It was one of the reasons our fathers gave for rebelling against the King of England …
What is now by ignorant or designing people called the war power, or military law, is simply the absence of all law, and rests upon the same moral basis, as what is called Lynch law, or mob law. They depend upon the same arbitrary usurpation of power, in opposition to Constitution and statute. It depends solely on the will or caprice of the party by whom it is proclaimed and enforced. Until Mr. Lincoln’s election , no man imagined that it was ever to be put in force outside of the military camp …
