(MILITARY CIVIL WAR RACISM) VAN EVRIE JOHN The Old Guard a

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR--RACISM.) VAN EVRIE, JOHN. The Old Guard, a Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787. Volume I, Numbers 3, 6, and 7; Volume II, Number 1. Engraved portraits in each issue; average 16-24 pages; uniform small 4to's with the original printed wrappers, the latter worn, but all present. New York: Chauncey Burr, 1863

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A deeply racist journal blaming Lincoln and the Negroes for the War; with articles like "The Traitor Congress and the Traitor President," and "The U.S. Treasury Robbed to Buy Negroes." The publisher of this periodical carried a full-page advertisement for the "New York Weekly Caucasian, the White Man's Paper." Published by John Van Evrie, author of "The Negro a Beast," and other similar pseudo-anthropological tracts.