TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. SENATOR HAMMOND AND THE TRIBUNE. BY TROUP. TRACT NO. 3.
Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1860. 23, [1] pp. Disbound, light spotting and some pages tanned. Good+.
This 1860 Association Tract contrasts the New York Tribune's ugly, distorted view of the South with the "cool-headed, sensible, unimpassioned" views of South Carolina's Senator Hammond. Tracing the intractable conflict between North and South to the country's birth, the author asserts, "It is a great mistake to assign the election of Lincoln as the CAUSE for a disruption of the Federal Government. It is but the occasion." Secession and a separate Southern, slave-holding Confederacy are passionately urged.
The last page, unnumbered, prints the 'Constitution of 1860 Association,' whose purpose is "promoting resistance, by the slaveholding States, to the aggressions of the non-slaveholding States." This is one of two 1860 Charleston issues.
III Turnbull 306 [different imprint]. Not in LCP. Item #14804
Price: $500.00