(CIVIL WAR OHIO) To All Law Abiding and Peace Loving Citize

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(CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) To All Law-Abiding and Peace-Loving Citizens: A 4th of July, Union Meeting. Letterpress broadside, 19 x 6 1/4 inches; foxing, moderate edge wear. [Sharon, OH, 4 July 1861]

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A resolution in opposition to "this unnecessary, unnatural, unholy and barbarous civil war," resolving to "suppress the insubordinations of Mobocracy," and to oppose the "hanging, shooting, assassination, or maltreating men for their opinions." It mourns "our ruined country, despoiled of unalienable rights and privileges, and likely to shrouded in the sable festoonery of mourning." The townsmen also resolved to "suspend all social intercourse with the town of Medina" (an abolitionist hotbed). The resolution is signed in type by 120 townsmen of Sharon (a small township in Noble County in southeastern Ohio), not exclusively Democratic or Copperhead--"many of them voted for Mr. Lincoln." None traced in OCLC or at auction. Provenance: from the stock of Ernest Wessen's Midland Books.