[NO. 141.] NEW ENGLAND LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY. OFFICE, NO. 8 STUDIO BUILDING, BOSTON. NOVEMBER 25, 1863... ENGLISH OPINION... MARYLAND FOR EMANCIPATION... REBEL TERMS OF PEACE.
Boston: 1863. Folio broadside, printed in three columns, 9-1/2" x 16-1/2". Printed in three columns beneath the caption, Very Good.
The Society, founded in 1863, published numerous articles to promote support for the Union, emancipation, and victory. The first essay, "a letter of an eminent Englishman," expresses dismay at the London Times's support for the Confederacy, "a thing which I should have thought impossible." Englishmen support "the federal cause by a great majority." The second essay delights in the victory of the Union party in Maryland, and "the sudden development of a radical emancipation sentiment in Maryland, in Missouri and in West Virginia... The same phenomenon is manifesting itself slowly in Kentucky, rapidly in Tennessee, Louisiana and North Carolina." A third piece recites the "Rebel Terms of Peace", as stated by the Richmond Enquirer: "the North must yield all-- we nothing." Finally, an article from the Boston Transcript, entitled, 'The Contraband Question in the South-West', urges "the most sure and vigorous means to get every able-bodied black under arms."
Sabin 52696 [reference]. The Society's broadsides are scarce. The Library Company owns several, but not this one. We note a location at Gettysburg College. The Rubinstein Collection at Duke owns some Society broadsides, but evidently not this one. Item #34187
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