Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 89

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(CIVIL WAR--KENTUCKY.) A Brief Review of the Politics of Kentucky, from 1861 to '63. Letterpress broadside, 17½ x 12½ inches; folds, tipped to album leaf with moderate staining at edges, faint dampstaining. No place, circa March 1863
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A reaction against Copperhead efforts to tip Kentucky toward the Confederacy, showing the tumult of the Union border states. It begins with an open letter from "The Union Men of Fayette County, Ky." shortly before the state's 19 March 1863 Union Convention. The main body is a long editorial of that date from the Cincinnati Gazette, signed in type by the pseudonym "Lexington." It urges Kentuckians to "act out the glorious sentiment uttered by the immortal Clay, who, in a prophetic view of our present troubles, was heard to exclaim 'My county, may she always be right. But right or wrong--my country.'" It concludes with a short postscript by "Lexington" written shortly after the Union Convention.

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