Raynor HCA 2014-04
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State Sovereignty and the Doctrine of Coercion, by the Hon. Wm. D. Porter ; Together with the Letter from Hon. J. K. Paulding, Former Secretary of the Navy - The Right to Secede - by 'States',(Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1860), 36pp. self-cover. The first page, addressed "To the Men of the South," carries the dire prediction that "The election of Lincoln is now well night certain. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent it. Lincoln is the chief and exponent of a party that is purely sectional - a party that has no foothold or resting place south of a geographical line , precisely separating the slaveholding from non-slaveholding States…" fine condition….plus; an Autograph Letter Signed "W. D. Porter," one page on his letterhead, 8vo, Charleston, August 10, 1877. Fine condition.
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