(RECONSTRUCTION.) Report of the Special Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York on the Confiscation of Cottonin the Southern States by the Government. by Frederick Augustus Conklin. 12 pages. 8vo, original brick-red printed wrappers, tiny chip to front cover. New York: John Amerman, 1865
first edition. A strongly worded argument of the New York cotton brokers who had bought--and paid for--Southern cotton seized by the Federal Government as "Captured." The brokers argued that cotton, sitting on the docks for the most part in Savannah, was in fact "abandoned." OCLC locates 5 copies.
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