JEFFERSON DAVIS. REPUDIATION, RECOGNITION AND SLAVERY. LETTER NO. II.
London: 1863. 12pp, disbound, light wear and Very Good.
Walker, the staunchly pro-Union Senator from Mississippi during the 1830's who had also been an advocate of Texan annexation and later became governor of the Kansas Territory, spent much of the War in Europe raising money for the Union cause. Here he shows that Jefferson Davis and his minister to England, Slidell, unjustifiably repudiated certain Mississippi bonds. He also demonstrates that "the cotton pledged by slaveholding traitors for the payment of the Confederate bonds is all forfeited for treason, and confiscated to the Federal Government by Act of Congress...The bonds are utterly worthless." DAB says this and his other pamphlets showed, "not very candidly, how slavery, Jefferson Davis, and the repudiation of debts were almost synonymous terms."
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