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Preference will be given to letters less than 200 words. Mr. Crouch, whose comments appeared on the Dec. 25 Morning News commentary page, had to go way back to the War Between the States to discredit even present-day Southerners. But Mr. Crouch failed to mention that some New Yorkers did not oppose the evil institution of slavery, although many did. He also sought to overlook an unflattering part of New York City's history that records that in July 1863 mobs in that city rioted for four days. They objected to drafting men into the Union Army.