Beschreibung:

CIVIL WAR, NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS]. Poster: "Don't Unchain the Tiger!," New York, New York, 24 July 1863. 1 page, folio , printed in bold display types. Centered in New York, the Draft Riots began in reaction to the Enrollment Act of 3 March 1863. On Saturday, 11 July 1863 the Provost Marshall drew names for the draft. The next day these were printed in the papers and by that afternoon mobs began to form. On Monday, when the drawing of names resumed, the rioting began. Soon there were nearly 500,000 men involved in the rash of looting and destruction. The mob wrecked the office of the New York Tribune , burned a black church and orphanage, attacked the home of the provost marshall, and started fires throughout the city. Troops from the Army of the Potomac finally restored order but nearly 1,000 were killed or wounded. The draft was postponed until August 19th of that summer, but in the immediate wake of the riots, other efforts, such as this broadside, were made to calm the populace. "...When I hear Workingmen talk about resisting the law, burning houses, killing public officers, and bursting the doors wide open for every kind of crime and disorder, it seems to me they do not think of all the cost and of all the horrors, or of widows and orphans, an their scalding tears, and I say to them, 'Brothers! in the name of God -- DON'T UNCHAIN THE TIGER!". With another broadside of the period. (2)