2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Confederate “Message of the President” 4p. octavo, Februry 25, 1862, and reads in part: “...I have to communicate that since my message to the Provisional Congress events have demonstrated that the Government had attempted more than it had power successfully to achieve. Hence, in the efrort to protect by our arms the whole of the territory of the Confederate States, sea-board and inland, we have been so exposed as recently to encounter serious disaster. When the Confederacy was formed, the States composing it were, by the pecuilar charcter of their pursuits, and a misplaced confidnce in their former associates, to a great extent destitute of the means for the prosecution of the war on so gigantic a scale as that which it has attained. The workshops and artisans were mainly to be found in the Northern States...The valor and devotion of the people have not only sustained the efforts of the Government, but have gone far to supply its deficiencies...The people of the Confederate States being principally engaged in agricutural pursuits, were unprovided at the commencement of hostilities with ships, ship-yards, materials for ship building, or skilled mechanics and seamen in sufficient numbers to make the prompt creation of a Navy a practicable task enve if the required appropriations had been made for the purpose...” Much more. VG.
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