Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) "M.H.W." A Letter to the Democracy * To the Democracy of the Border States. Pair of disbound 3-page pamphlets; minor dampstaining in gutter; library markings. Baltimore, 10 August 1861 and 25 April 1862

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Two rabid secessionist pamphlets issued within Union lines. The first argues that "the killing of Southern people by the Northern invaders is wilful deliberate murder," and the second prays that "God grant that the rallying cry of the Democrats of the Border States may soon go up as one universal shout . . . the Southern States as a unit!" Only 5 and 3 copies in WorldCat, respectively.