Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Civil War related imprint “State Sovereignty and the Doctrine of Coercion, by the Hon. Wm. D. Porter; Together with a Letter from Hon. J.K. Paulding, Former Sec. of Navy. - The Right to Secede, by ‘States.’” Charleston, 1860, 36pp. 12mo, addressed “To The Men of the South” and reads in small part: “...The recent speech of Mr. Douglas at Norfolk, n which he threatened the Southern States with military coercion in the event of secession, out to startle and arouse the people of those States, like the blast of a hostile trumpet at midnight!...The election of Lincoln is now well nigh 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 hs no foothold or resting place south of a geographical line, precisely separating the slaveholding from the non-slaveholding States....the thing that bands the party together , is hatred of slavery and slaveholders - a bitter, malignant, calculating hatred...We have submitted and are submitting, to their rapacity, their cruelty and their hatred. But it is possible, we have greater evils yet before us. When new States are admitted; when Abolition becomes stronger and stronger; when the Supreme Court is remodeled; when the power to amend develops the power to destroy - how are we to stem the torrent or avoid the cataract? In what place are we to seek for shelter, if the right to retreat before our enemies, or to retire within our borders is repudiated and denied? When the two-fifths doctrine is expunged; the rendition of fugitive slaves is looked upon as a remnant of barbarism; when the eligibility to hold office is confined to those who eschew slavery as a sin; when we are threatened with fire and sword even in our hiding-places at home; and when poison is openly prescribed and provided for the Cotton States of the Confederacy - where, then, shall we be? Who will be our masters?...” Disbound, very good condition.
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