2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Partly-printed Document Signed, 1p. quarto, April 20, 1868, being an “OATH PRESCRIBED BY ACT OF JULY 2, 1862, in which J.B. Lovejoy of Alexandria, Virginia, swears “that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have volunatrily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States...” VG. This oath originated in a stringent loyalty oath passed by the Federal Congress in July of 1862. The oath, in an amended version, was later written into the Reconstruction Act of March, 1867. It called for a pledge of past as well as future allegiance. Few Southerners could or would swear to ‘past allegiance’ thus the majority of white Southern males were effectively barred from the franchise and from holding state or federal political office, wrenching state government from Southern control.
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