Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 480
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) Group of 24 pamphlets issued by the Loyal Publication Society. 8vo, disbound, most restitched, some with wrappers; most with pencil library markings and faint inked library stamps on verso of title pages. New York, 1863-65
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The Loyal Publication Society was founded in New York during the Union's darkest period, with the intention of bolstering morale by disseminating pro-Union articles. Highlights of this lot include: Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, Upon Slavery. May 1863 Robert Dale Owen. Emancipation is Peace. [1863?] Letter of Peter Cooper on Slave Emancipation. October 1863 and Thompson. Abraham Lincoln, His Life, and Its Lessons. 1865.
Also: No. 3. The Great Mass Meeting of Loyal Citizens. [March 1863?]

No. 5. Voices from the Army! The Soldiers Open Their Batteries on the Copperheads. [February 1863]

No. 8. Laboulaye. Separation: War Without End. 1864

No. 12. Pelletan. An Address to King Cotton. 1863

No. 14. The Preservation of the Union, a National Economic Necessity. October 1863

No. 17. Anderson. The Cause of the War: Who Brought It On, and For What Purpose? October 1863

No. 21. Anderson. Letter Addressed to the Opera House Meeting, Cincinnati. 1863

No. 25. Owen. The Conditions of Reconstruction; in a Letter . . . to the Secretary of State. 1863

No. 28. Cooper. The Death of Slavery. Letter . . . to Governor Seymour. October 1863

No. 29. Lieber. Slavery Plantations and the Yeomanry. October 1863

No. 30. Rebel Conditions of Peace and the Mechanics of the South. [1863?]

No. 34. Everett. The Monroe Doctrine. December 1863

No. 35. Lieber. The Arguments of Secessionists. A Letter to the Union Meeting Held in New York. 1863

No. 36. Stephens. Prophecy and Fulfillment, Speech of A.H. Stephens of Georgia . . . in Opposition to Secession in 1860. 1863

No. 37. Chase. How the South Rejected Compromise in the Peace Conference of 1861. [1863?]

No. 38. Meagher. Letters on Our National Struggle. [1863?]

No. 40. Butler. The Conscription Act: A Series of Articles. [1863?]

No. 41. Réponse de Mm. De Gasparin, Laboulaye, Martin et Cochin, a la Ligue Loyale et Nationale de New York. April 1864

No. 42. Reply of Messrs. Agenor de Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin, to the Loyal National League of New York. April 1864

No. 43. Antwort der Herren . . . an die Loyal National League zu New-York. [1864?]