(CIVIL WAR NEW YORK) January 1st Carriers Address of the Ne

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) January 1st, Carriers' Address of the New York Tribune to their Patrons. 1863. 8 pages. 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, printed in blue with decorative borders on two folding sheets; rebacked and bound tastefully with a bit of tape, minor wear. New York: Baker & Godwin, [late 1862]

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This carrier's address from Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune recounts many of the events and trends of 1862: progress of the war, the shift to paper currency, the difficulty of a conscripted army ("the forced recruits are rather apt to shirk"). The sweet ironies of emancipation are not lost on this Republican paper: "Our Generals their negro bands enroll / And Butler institutes a black patrol / While at the gate a colored sentry stands / Stops his old Massa and the pass demands. . . . For now the Presidential proclamation / Seals the glad tidings of emancipation." The African colonization movement is challenged: "Long may we rue the day--long look in vain / For hands to till the cotton and the cane." The final four stanzas are devoted to a subject close to the newspaper's heart: the increased cost of paper. 4 in OCLC, and none traced at auction.