Raynors HCA 2015-05
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Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of The New York Times, November 24, 1860, 8pp., disbound, VG. In the year 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln, when the Southern States began to drift rapidly into secession, William L. Yancey, of Alabama, the most brilliant, eloquent and daring of all the leaders in that eventful movement, challenged the New York Times editor, Henry J. Raymond to a discussion on the bearings of slavery. Raymond accepted the challenge, and his series of letters to Mr. Yancey, beginning November 23,1860, were considered the ablest presentation of the great questions of disunion and slavery that had ever been made. From the front page, this issue prints Raymond’s letter in full with column headlines, “The Slave Trade and the Constitution, A Letter in Reply to Hon. W.L. Yancy on the Prohibition of the Slave Trade.” The letter runs over columns and is followed by two more columns under “The Debate in the Convention of 1787 on the Prohibition of the Slave Trade.”
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