[TLI]

isn’t THAT aiding and abetting the insurrection?

My fumbling fingers...

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[Wallace T.]

During the New York Draft Riots of 1863, Lincoln had no qualms in sending in the military to suppress the riots, even though New York Governor Horatio Seymour was a 19th Century version of Andrew Cuomo, placating the rioters who were attempting to take over the city, conduct pogroms against the blacks, and kill the wealthy Unionists.