To the laboring men of New York
Subtitle: Comrades:--Do you want to pay heavy taxes? Do you want to suffer loss and ruin? ... Stop and think! The property destroyed by a riot must be paid for by the city, and in this way every act of disorder, violence and house-burning, is only laying heavier taxes on your own shoulders. ...
Publisher: Sold by Sinclair Tousey
Published: 1863
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863; History
Notes: One of nine broadsides attributed to Sinclair Tousey and W.O. Bourne in NUC pre-1956, and assigned the collective title "Draft riots of 1863 of New York City; 9 handbills such as were handed about the city to allay the excitement." Two of them have the imprint "Sold by Sinclair Tousey, 121 Nassau St. ..."

Signed: Saturday, July 18, 1863. A Democratic workingman.

Printed area measures 44.4 x 25.3 cm.

From the library of Evert Jansen Wendell.

Two identical copies (original printings) in folder, marked US 102.8.5 (71), (a) and (b).