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EXEMPTION CLAUSE FROM THE CONSCRIPTION BILL
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(CIVIL WAR.) SUMNER, CHARLES. Fragment of an Autograph Manuscript, with
holograph docketing Signed, written vertically at left edge: “draft of amendment moved to
conscription-bill by C.S.” The fragment, 10 lines. 5x9 inches; upper and lower edges trimmed,
short separations at folds, minor smudging to text near lower edge.
Np, circa February 1863
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That all persons conscientiously opposed to the bearing of arms, who shall be drafted, may be
treated as non-combatants & shall be assigned by the Sec’y of War to duty in the hospitals or the
care of freedmen or, in lieu thereof, they shall pay the sum of $300 . . . .”
The Conscription Bill was passed by the House of Representatives on March 2, 1863.
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(CIVIL WAR.) SUMNER, CHARLES. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed: “The
President is empowered / to confer Freedom; but / he is impotent to make / a Slave — so that
he / cannot undo his own / act of Emancipation.”
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page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal
folds.
Boston, 15 October 1864
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