2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Confederate imprint, 4p. octavo, being a ‘Joint Resolution’ between the Confederate Senate and House, and reads in part: “...Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the people of the Confederate States are endowed by their Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments were instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, and whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. That, on these principles, embodied in the Declaration of American Independence, the United Colonies, in 1776, dissolved the connection that bound them to the government of Great Britain, and on them the Confederate States have severed the bonds of that political union which connected them with the people and the government of the United States of America, rather than submit to the repeated injuries inflicted upon them by that people and to the usurpations of that government, all of which had the direct object to deprive them of their rights, rob them of property secured to them by constitutional guarantees, and to establish an absolute tyranny over these States. Resolved, That the Confederates States appealed to arms in defence of these rights and to establish these principles only after they had in vain conjured the people and the government of the United States, by all the ties of a common kindred, to discountenance and discontinue these injuries and usurpations, and after they had petitioned for redress in the most appropriate terms, and recieved in answer only a repetion of insults and injuries, which foreshadowed usurpations still more dangerous to liberty. Resolved, That after nearly four years of cruel, desolating and unnatural war, in which the people of the Confederate States have unquestionably established their capacity for self-government, and their ability to resist the attempts of the enemy to subjugate them, this Congress does not hesitate to avow its sincere desire for peace, and to that end proclaims to the world the readiness of the Government of the Confederate States to open negotiations to establish a permanent and honorable peace between the Confederate States and the United States, upon the basis of the seperate independence of the former. Resolved, Thatt he time has come when the Confederate Congress, in the name of the people of the Confederate States, deem it proper again to proclaim to the world their unalterable determination to be free, and they do not abate one jot of their high resolve to die freemen rather than endure the tyranny which must follow subjugation; and further, if the people of the United States, by re-electing Abraham Lincoln, mean to tender to them four years more of war, or re-union with them on any terms, deeply deprecating the dire necessity so wantonly thrust upon them, and relying upon the justice of their cause and the gallantry of their soldiers, they accept the gage of battle, and leave the result to the righteous arbitrament of Heaven....” More. Fine.
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