Draft -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources

Series: Senate (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate) ; 1863, Extra session, no. 1.

The continent is trembling [poem, by E. Delafield Smith] -- Address at Union Square, at the war meeting ... in response to an appeal of the President ... for additional military forces -- Speech at Madison Square at the meeting held April 20, 1863 -- Resolutions presented ... at a union meeting held at Cooper Institute, New York, October 29, 1863.

Opinion of Honorable John M. Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Notes: "Delivered at Pittsburg, on Monday, November 9, 1863." "Three bills in equity were filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District by three individuals against the officers of the Enrolling Board of the Third Congressional District, praying for injunctions to restrain the defendants from further proceeding with or under such enrolment, requisition, and draft, under the Act of 3d March, 1863, and particularly from all proceedings against the said plaintiffs. The ground alleged for these applications was the unconstitutionality of this act of Congress."--Page [2]. Printed marginalia. A longer version (31 pages), with additional opinion, also issued in 1863: "Opinions of Hon. John M. Read." FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.

Series: Campaign document (Democratic Party (U.S.)) ; no. 21. Notes: Caption title. At head of title: "Sold at 13 Park Row, New York, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices, at $1 per 1,000 pages." Text printed in two columns.