ANTE-BELLUM UNION PROPAGANDA

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A good group of four antebellum political pamphlets outlining and arguing various views on slavery and of maintaining the Union, includes: The Union, Past and Future: How it Works, and How to Save it. By a citizen of Virginia. Washington, printed by Jno. T. Towers, 1850, 32p. quarto, in small part: "...the time has come when it behooves every Southern man to consider the best means of preserving the Union which he loves...we joined the league as equals...but our allies at the North have grown strong...they have advanced far in a series of measures, which, if unresisted, must end in the overthrow of our slave institutions...". With: The Republican Scrap Book; Containing The Platforms, and a Choice Selection of Extracts, Setting Forth the Real Questions in Issue, The Opinions of the Candidates, the Nature and Designs of the Slave Oligarchy, as Shown by Their Own Writers, and the Opinions of Clay, Webster, Josiah Quincy, and other Patriots, on Slavery and its Extension. 80p. quarto, printed in Boston, 1856, by John Jewett & Co. With good content pertaining to the both Southern and Northern views on slavery; Boston Courier Report of the Union Meeting in Faneuil Hall, Thursday, Dec. 8th, 1859. 32p. quarto, published by Clark, Fellows & Company, Boston, 1859, bearing pencil signature at top "F. J. Parker" of Colonel Francis J. Parker, 32nd Massachusetts Volunteers, who were hard fought at Gettysburg, Laurel Hill, Virginia, and Hatcher's Run. PLUS; Henry Clay and the Administration. A Tract for the Times...by A Friend of the Union" 15p. quarto, Philadelphia, 1850, and reads in part: "...In all the revulsions of party, as to either men or measures, of which the history of this country...there is none...as the present hostile attitude of the Administration towards Henry Clay. Himself the founder of the great Whig party, and its leading spirit and principal defender through all the vicissitudes and trials that such party has encountered...". All are disbound while showing usual wear having been found in the personal papers of Col. Francis J. Parker, 32nd Massachusetts Volunteers.

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