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THBNew York Draft Riots Broadside, Don't Unchain the Tiger!
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LiveFeb 21, 2017 - Feb 22, 2017
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- Lot Description
Rare broadside, 12 x 19 in., with the bold heading DON'T Unchain the Tiger!, urging New Yorkers to maintain order in the face of the impending draft riots. In response to the city's well-dressed demagogues filling the ears of the people with lies, the broadside says to Spurn him as you would a viper, and repeats the heading Don't unchain the Tiger! five more times. Undersigned by A Democratic Workingman, with publishing credit to the N.Y Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association, which was in actuality publisher-activist Sinclair Tousey (1818-1887).
The working classes of heavily-immigrant New York City had been lukewarm to the war from the start, owing to the fact that a majority of the South's exports passed through the ports and markets of the city and therefore provided many immigrant jobs. The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863 strengthened immigrant opposition to the war as many foresaw free blacks migrating to the city in droves to compete for already low-paying jobs. The conscription act was the final straw, and local Democrats and Southern sympathizers seized on the opportunity to foment rebellion against blacks, Republican supporters and newspaper offices, and eventually federal troops, resulting in what was likened to a Confederate victory. Printer Samuel Tousey put his presses to work immediately, plastering his Stop and Think! and Don't Unchain the Tiger! broadsides throughout the city in an attempt to quell the hysteria. Although signed A Democratic Workingman, Tousey was in fact a committed Republican. His New York Times obituary of 1887 states that "he joined the Republican Party at its organization, and throughout the war was on terms of intimacy with many of its leaders," and says of his anti-riot appeals such as the one offered here, that "a most wholesome effect was produced."
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.Very good overall, with light staining where framed, reductions at edges unaffecting text.Condition
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