Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860. Disbound. Very Good binding. Item #7312

Octavo. 6, [2 (blank)] pp. Confederate imprint. Removed from nonce volume. Early inked "XXII" on the top of the title page, faint pencil bracket in one margin otherwise, contents are clean; paper is quite bright. A striking address with strong language speaking to the recent secession of South Carolina and the Northern campaign for abolition of slavery. "They have taught their people to believe that slavery is a sin and a curse . . . . They have generated in the whole Northern mind a hatred against Southern institutions and Southern men. They proclaimed that an irrepressible conflict existed between the systems of Northern and Southern labor, and that one or the other must go down; and at length defiantly and exultingly declared that the battle was won" (p. 5). DeSaussure speaks of the choices that will be in front of a conference of Southern States, "to patch up a hollow truce with anit-slavery . . . [or] to concert measures for final separation, and for the formation of a Southern Confederacy" (p. 6). Parrish & Willingham 3815; De Renne p. 614.

Price: $100.00