Lincoln's "WAR POWER OF THE PRESIDENT"

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Imprint, "WAR POWER OF THE PRESIDENT," Published by the Loyal Publication Society, New York, No. 32 in a series, by J. Hermans, modern hardbound cloth, 10pp. octavo, June, 1863. Interesting content, discussing the power of the President to allow "summary imprisonments" and suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus--a radical action that Lincoln took once the rebellion began. ex-libris, fine condition.The Loyal Publication Society was a high-powered organization founded in New York City in early 1863 to distribute widely pamphlets "of unquestionable and unconditional loyalty" to the Union cause, in order to influence public opinion for the Union and the Republican Party. The "tracts" were placed in public places, distributed free at military hospitals and to the armed forces. Francis Lieber was the president of the organization and various authors sympathetic to the association provided texts. An interesting slice of public opinion peddling from the Civil War era.

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