NEAL DOW ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
[Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society? 1862?]. 4pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound, else Very Good.
Brigadier General Dow had been Mayor of Portland, Maine, and the leader of the Maine prohibition movement. Wounded at the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, Dow spent nine months as a prisoner of the Confederates. He was exchanged in 1864, resigned from the Army, and devoted the rest of his life to his principal passion-- temperance and prohibition
This pamphlet prints a portion of Dow's Letter to Thomas Holliday Barker of Manchester, England, a fellow prohibitionist and a founder of the Union and Emancipation Society. Dow gives an eyewitness account of the slow death of slavery at his location. Writing from Fort St. Philip, about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans, Dow writes "that this war is a dealing with us by Providence, on account of our great and dreadful national sin of slavery, and that we cannot have peace until we repent and abandon it. Northern people have flattered themselves that the South alone was responsible for the sin and shame of slavery, whereas our complicity has been open and constant."
OCLC 79613597 [1 - Harvard] as of June 2026. Not in LCP, Sabin, Dumond. Item #42098
Price: $450.00