On July thirteenth, eighteen sixty-three, a crowd formed outside a New York draft office.

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Then they set fire to the draft office and several buildings nearby.

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Their attack on the draft office that day was just the beginning.

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The Northern Ireland Office draft bill long-fingers various other ideas Owen Paterson floated - an extended Stormont term, a smaller assembly or legislation to provide for an opposition.

BBC: Promises easy to make in opposition

The committee was taking evidence on the Northern Ireland Office's draft bill on changes to the political system.

BBC: Sinn Fein gives evidence to Westminster committee

Coincidentally, on the day the writ was moved for the Mid Ulster by-election, the Northern Ireland Office published its draft bill on double jobbing and other potential changes to the political system here.

BBC: Promises easy to make in opposition