Use the excerpt from a statement about the New York City Draft Riots to answer the question.
How might one of the rioters MOST LIKELY have responded to the confusion expressed by the author?
A.
“You and your brethren are Confederate spies sent to betray the Union. We’ll root you all out!”
B.
“We didn’t want this war. Let the South go. We don’t want to fight and die to free your brethren.”
C.
“We’re on the wrong side of this war. The Confederacy has the right of it. No abolition! No emancipation!”
D.
“That’s it. We have to send all you back to the South, escaped or not, before this debate tears the country in two!”
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C. “We’re on the wrong side of this war. The Confederacy has the right of it. No abolition! No emancipation!”