2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Broadside, 19” x 12.5”. Large campaign broadside with the text of Confederate Vice President Stephens’ address to the Georgia convention that had considered secession. This extract of Stephens’ speech was printed to dissuade Democrats from supporting McClellan in 1864: “There are many well-meaning men in the party called ‘DEMOCRATS’, who, through party spirit, have allowed themselves to seem to be committed in favor of the “Peace-and-Secession” Doctrine of the men whom they have permitted to become their ‘leaders’. To such men we recommend a careful perusal of the following extract from a speech made by ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,... He showed clearly that the South had no just cause of complaint, and predicted what would be the consequences of the terrible act. Mr. STEPHENS has since yielded to the spirit of party, against which he so long struggled, but his defection does not disprove his own arguments, the truth of which every day is demonstrating by the painful logic of fact....” Small tape stain and tear at top edge, mostly in the outer extra selvege, affecting only the very first word in title, else VG.
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