2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Broadside, 12” x 18,” large variable type faces, minor roughness at left edge else very good. The strongly worded satirical text is aimed at draft dodgers beginning with the large headline, “ATTENTION EXEMPTS!” and continueing in detail, “All who have been fortunate enough to get released from defending our Country in its hour of peril are requested to meet on Saturday Sept. 20 .... Nature so fitly provided us for this estimable blessing...” It then presents the “Order of Procession” in part, “Varicose Cadets, Toe Nail Diggers, Toothless Gummers, Colored Individuals, Abolitionists ....” Of course the draft brought class clashes with many believing it was “a rich man’s war fought by the poor.”
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