LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS PROBABLE RESULTS IF SUCCESSFUL, AND THE DUTY OF KENTUCKY IN THE CRISIS. by Holt, Joseph: : David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC : Specializing in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas.

Holt, Joseph:

LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS PROBABLE RESULTS IF SUCCESSFUL, AND THE DUTY OF KENTUCKY IN THE CRISIS.

Bradley & Gilbert., Louisville, Ky.: 1861 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed, generally in the margins. Photo illustration of Holt tipped in, Very Good. The Border State lawyer, Buchanan's last Secretary of War, helped hold Kentucky in the Union. In this May 31, 1861 letter to his colleague James Speed, he expresses his "unspeakable gratification" at "the recent overwhelming vote in favor of the Union in Kentucky." Later Lincoln's Judge Advocate General of the Army, he opens a window on activities and emotions in Kentucky in the crucial months after Lincoln's election. The Cotton States, he charges, seeking to "enlist the natural bent" of the crucial Border States' sympathies, "resolved to precipitate a collision of arms with the Federal authorities." Holt insists that the "extraordinary and discreditable spectacle" of revolution is unnecessary, as slavery in States where it already exists is secure. Two editions of this influential Border State perspective also issued from Washington in 1861. This Kentucky imprint is by far the scarcest. Sabin 32651. LCP 4913. 252 NUC 0478921 [6]. Coleman 1212 [D.C. 2d edition]. Not in Nevins, Decker, Monaghan, Eberstadt.

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