Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Broadside, “Copperheads Vigorously prosecuting Peace, Is it the Peace You Want ?”, 15-1/2,” x 23-1/2,” 1863, New York, mounted, small piece loss at margin. At the top is an illustration of snakes [Copperheads] attcking lady Liberty with a Union shield. The text continues, “Read what they say: We are not a Union of states but a "Confederacy." Abraham Lincoln has usurped power, violated the Constitution, and put in peril the liberties of the people, but Jeff. Davis has not ...The South may use the Negro against the North, but it is very wicked for the North to employ Negroes against the South ....” Then, presented in two columns “Resolutions of the Hartford Convention, February 18, 1863.”
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