Total fantasy.
In fact the entire Union was under threat of Confederate invasion, especially Washington DC, Border States and territories.
Remember, the whole Union Army in early 1861 was only 17,000 with half scattered in small forts out west.
By contrast, Confederates had already called up 100,000 troops and launched war at Fort Sumter.
So Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops to restore seized Federal properties did not even match the Confederate Army.
But in response Jefferson Davis called up another 400,000 Confederate troops and formally declared war on the United States.
So at that point New Yorkers' lost money was the least of Lincoln's concerns.
The main thing was survival of the Republic, and Lincoln's oath of office.
DiogenesLamp: "Of course that double standard for the Wealthy caused one of the worst riots in US History."
As rockrr pointed out, the same "double standard" ruled the Confederacy.
The difference is: the Confederacy had far fewer men to spare and so did a more thorough job of vacuuming up everyone available.
Still, there were many, many Southerners who refused to serve the Confederate Army, and many other Southerners who served in the Union Army.
Total fantasy.
It is in fact, what is happening right now. From the ideological and regional descendents of the very same people who did it to the nation back in 1861.
Now, instead of the South, it is the entire nation, and instead of one group being slaves, we are now all slaves. The Boston/DC corridor power block are now the nation's international globalists, and their policies are still being implemented by the US Government.
The aftermath of the Civil War was an orgy of corruption precisely because the barriers between government and business had been broken down by the power the Robber Barons wielded in order to start the Civil War.