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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC UNION COVERS. John Brown * An Institution of the "C.S.A." Cotton States Aristocracy. Two covers, 3-1/4 x 5-1./2 inches; one with an engraving of John Brown, the other a black woman nursing a white child. The first cover is in excellent condition; the second shows some signs on the reverse of having been in an album, with the imprint of Harbach & Bros, Philadelphia, 1861 on the flap. Vp, 1861
two rare covers. The first shows a beardless, rather emaciated John Brown with "His last words: 'I die for the inalienable right of mankind to freedom, whatever hue of the skin may be.'" The second shows a black nursemaid with the following caption: "Though now unconscious on Ma Ma's breast/ glorious destiny awaits the high born babe/ A Knight, a Baron, A Duke. A Royal crest/ May yet upon his diadem wave." From the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Civil War covers.
