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This one inscribed, \"With very good wishes, sincerely yours, Lillian Smith.\" It is pencil and ink signed \"Janice Scott,\" likely the 1960's \"light\" black model mentioned in the essay, \u003cem\u003eThe Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eShades of Difference\u003c\/em\u003e by Stanford Press, 2009. Then inscribed Thelma Rudd. Rudd is an activist for the presence of African Americans in aeronautics and space. She authored a biography of the first African American aviator, Bessie Coleman, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eetc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. A Novel. New York. Reynal \u0026amp; Hitchcock Publishers. New York. 1944. First Edition. Eleventh Printing. 250pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good condition. Cloth tidy and crisp. Textually very good. Dustjacket has some chips and losses; now preserved in a transparent sleeve. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40543138185252,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-06567.jpg?v=1713983102"},{"product_id":"1931-detroit-tribune-rare-press-pass-for-detroits-negro-weekly-newspaper","title":"1931 DETROIT TRIBUNE. Rare Press Pass for Detroit's \"Negro Weekly\" Newspaper.","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eA very rare 1933 Press Car pass issued for upstart \"Negro\" weekly in Detroit, the Detroit Tribune. It lasted only one year. The pass would have been put in the reporter's car and allowed the person access to a crime scene, trial, etc.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDetroit had already long-been a city full of racial and ethnic contention. Many in the black community felt they needed an independent voice since leaders in industry, influential leaders in the church, and leaders in the police could not be trusted to tell their story without prejudice.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e*Just two years earlier, in 1931, Adolph Hitler called Henry Ford* his inspiration, and Hitler kept a framed photograph of Ford in his office. Ford took time out of his schedule to publish a magazine that was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003ca tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eanti-Jewish, and to a lesser extent anti-immigrant, and anti-black for 8 years straight; it had a distribution of 700,000 copies per issue.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eFord's paper was certainly most critical of Jewish people. His relationship to immigrants and black employees was more complex. He paid equally, but also utilized power over black employees, who had few options at the time. He pit them against the potential unionization of white employees, etc., Many on reflection see him not as a civil rights champion, but as a person who understood the power he gained from giving small and limited amounts of power to the black community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAs time went on, Ford hired spies to work specifically inside the community of his black workers. As black workers began to engage in workers' rights movements, Ford became decidedly less amiable toward them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e*During the 1930's, perhaps the most influential Catholic priest in America was Detroit-based, Father Charles Coughlin, a Nazi sympathizer. Approximately 25% of the entire American population tuned into him each week. He supported the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, as well as Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany. He is perhaps the most influential overt Nationalist \/ Fascist in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e*At the same time, the National Headquarters for the Black Legion was in Detroit. Never heard of it? They started out as the paramilitary wing of the Ku Klux Klan. As the KKK became more open to immigrants, it stopped being quite racist enough for the Legion; they broke off, headquartered in Detroit, and were deemed a terrorist organization by the Federal Government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Police Chief at the time, Charles McMillan, was a member of the Black Legion, as were many of the beat cops** throughout the city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA moving little piece of ephemera and Detroit history. It had been glued to a cupboard shelf as a liner in Detroit. Worn, awkwardly repaired. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e*We are aware that there are those who view Ford as a champion of Civil Rights; that history can be tough to sort out.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e**And yes, absolutely some of the best people in the world and some of the finest people I know are or have been police officers. Not intended in any way as an anti-police statement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41044221722660,"sku":"","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/Feb27_2024-01.jpg?v=1709129746"},{"product_id":"1914-c-g-barth-cuff-the-negro-boy-a-story-for-children-very-fine","title":"1914 C. G. BARTH. Cuff the Negro Boy. A Story for Children. Very Fine.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine English translation of a story first written in German by evangelical pietist, Christian Gottlob Barth. It seems from its inception to have been intended for American audiences, perhaps the German in America and his concern for their involvement in American slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs usual for the period, infantilizing black characters, but in period context, attempting to show that a black child may be noble, selfless, forgiving, and loved by God as anyone else, while at the same time showing the evils of cruelty to black Americans, of intemperance, and of godlessness in general. An interesting choice to reprint early in the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarth, Christian Gogglob. Cuff the Negro Boy. A Story for Children. Columbus, OH. c.1914. 103pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good, near fine. Some light toning, but otherwise, an excellent copy.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41044295745572,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/Feb27_2024-03.jpg?v=1709130701"},{"product_id":"1857-hinton-rowan-helper-the-impending-crisis-of-the-south","title":"1857 H. R. HELPER. The Impending Crisis of the South. As Influential as Uncle Tom's Cabin.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare first edition, fourth thousand of Hinton R. Helper’s classic and highly influential text from the run-up to the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHinton R. Helper, himself a southerner, believed the truest friends of the southern states were the anti-slavery abolitionists in the population, that slavery was both a moral and economic curse to the land. His meticulously argued text was found so threatening, its distribution was banned in the south immediately after its publication. It vied for popularity with Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Howes], the two forming a potent dual-pronged narrative and didactic pair. The Dictionary of American Biography indicates that its contemporary influence was actually greater than Uncle Tom’s Cabin and that it contributed significantly toward the outbreak of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition [1859] and third edition [1860] appear more often at auction with the 1857 being rather rare, especially in this condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapters cover the comparison between free and slave states, immediate abolition, plain words to slaveholders, the author’s plan for the abolition of slavery, despotism of the slave oligarchy, mal-treatment of non-slaveholding whites, slave-driving democrats, slavery to be abolished without direct compensation to slaveholders, the American Colonization Society and emigration to Liberia, what the fathers of the Republic said about slavery [Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc.,],the church’s testimony against slavery [Albert Barnes, Thomas Scott, Assembly of 1818, Kentucky Synod, John Jay, Francis Wayland, Abraham Booth, Baptists of Virginia in 1789, etc.,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelper, Hinton Rowan [of North Carolina]. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York. Burdick Brothers. 1857. 420pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood + to very good, blind stamped cloth, spine dulled with minor nicks to head and tail of spine, textually very fine with only the slightest smudge to margins at a few points. Else bright, crisp, solid, and clean. An exceptional copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__description rte\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41188302258212,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-01-2024SpecsFineBooks-06086.jpg?v=1712083418"},{"product_id":"1838-39-new-yorker-magazine-trail-of-tears-abolition-slavery-mormons-and-latter-day-saints","title":"1838-39 NEW-YORKER MAGAZINE. Trail of Tears, Abolition \u0026 Slavery, Mormons and Latter Day Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare entire year run of Horace Greeley's first publication, prior to his New York Tribune. A Whig, Abolitionist, Advocate Against the Death Penalty, Promoter of the Westward Expansion, Defender of Slaves, etc., via his expansive and influential publishing work, Greeley was one of the most influential men of the 19th century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present large 4to volume, near folio, contains two entire 6 month runs of The New-Yorker. It contains important primary resource content related to the ongoing Boundary Battle with Canada in Maine; Indian Battles in Florida, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, etc.; Slavery and Abolition; The Trail of Tears; etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is very sought for its early, first-hand Mormon material. Relevant to the important Mormon content, please see LDS dealer Rick Grunder's extensive description of the importance of this issue at the bottom of the catalog entry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreeley, Horace. Benjamin Park [Eds]. The New-Yorker. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics, Statistics, and General Intelligence; Containing Original and Selected Tales, Essays, Reviews, Poems, Anecdotes, \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. With Notices of an Extracts from New Books of Interest; Full Accounts of All Elections, Foreign and Domestic News, Important Political Developments, General Editorial Comments, \u0026amp;c. With Twenty-Two Pieces of Music, Arranged for the Piano, Flute, \u0026amp;c. September to March, 1838. New York. Published Every Saturday by Horace Greeley \u0026amp; Co. No. 1. Ann-St. 1839. 416pp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreeley, Horace. Benjamin Park [Eds]. The New-Yorker. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics, Statistics, and General Intelligence; Containing Original and Selected Tales, Essays, Reviews, Poems, Anecdotes, \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. With Notices of an Extracts from New Books of Interest; Full Accounts of All Elections, Foreign and Domestic News, Important Political Developments, General Editorial Comments, \u0026amp;c. With Twenty-Two Pieces of Music, Arranged for the Piano, Flute, \u0026amp;c. March to September 14, 1839. New York. Published Every Saturday by Horace Greeley \u0026amp; Co. No. 1. Ann-St. 1839. 414pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVOLUME ONE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLynching of Two Abolitionists in St. Louis | Nights on the Hudson River | Magnetic Discoveries | The Whigs and Martin Van Buren | Indian Frontier Conflicts | Meeting of the Southern Convention [ against Northern Tyranny ] | Animal Magnetism |  Dr. Marshman of the Serampore Mission [ William Carey, etc. ] | Western Emigration | Annual Report of the New York Peace Society | Cholera in Sicily | A Chapter from the Adventures of a Lame Gentleman | The Old Soldier Visiting the Scenes of His Early Battles - A Poem by Melzar Gardner | The Punishment of Death [Capital Punishment] | Chinese English [ interesting article on Chinese accents when learning English ] | Joseph Smith and Trouble with the Mormons in Missouri | Review of Judge Harper's \u003cem\u003eMemoir on Slavery \u003c\/em\u003epublished in the Southern Literary Messenger [abolitionist, etc.] | Shocking Murder of a Wife by Her Husband in Benington Vermont | Mulberry Mania | Benjamin Franklin's Advice to Young Tradesmen | The Kushow Property [humorous series by Frederick William Shelton] | A Day on Lake Erie | On Imprisonment for Debt | A Wonderful Instance of Somnambulism | A Chapter from the History of Quackery by a Regular Physician [ Homeopathy, Phrenology, Quack Medicine ] | The Morals of the Waltz | The Removal of the Cherokee [ Trail of Tears ] | Mormons Leaving Maine | Some Thoughts on the History of the American Government [Series] | Election Frauds | Mormon Difficulties | Philosophy - Letters from M. Victor Cousin to Prof. Henry of This City [Series] | A Sister Shot by Her Brother | Counsel for those Emigrating Westward | Fruits of a Drunken Frolic | Some Views of the History of the American Constitution [Series] | Excursion to Camel's Rump by William Slade | Punishment of Death in Australia [Capital Punishment] | Proclamation of President Martin Van Buren against Americans Engaged in Hostilities against Canada | Thirty-Two Mormons Butchered at Splawn's Creek | The Trial of Mr. Mahan for Abducting Slaves from Kentucky [Fugitive Slave Act | Underground Railroad etc.] | Horrid Murders in Mississippi | The Phantom Ship | Beautiful Passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature | First-hand Account of a Boy Taken by a Bear | Phrenology | Persecution of Indians in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas | An Indian's Tradition | Phantasmion | The Aurora Borealis | Indian Troubles in Texas | The Detroit Patriots Routed, etc. | The Onyx Ring by Archaeus [Series by John Stirling - First American Edition on Thomas Carlyle] | History of Quackery | The Patriots of Detroit Frozen to Death in the Woods | Murder and Piracy aboard the Eclipse | Effective Force of the Russian Army | Down-East Notions [Series - Jeremy Bentham, Aaron Burr, Matthew L. Davis, etc.] | Positive of Women [Women's Rights, Changing Women's Place in Society, etc.] etc. etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVOLUME TWO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInsanity | The Jews Moving for Palestine | A Scene at the Battle of the Bad Axe | The  Border Difficulties - Kennebec Militia | The Gift of Second-Sight | Pe-Wa-Tem: Or the Last Chief Huron by L. L. Noble | Fashion in Dress | Fragments of a Journal by a Virginian Lady | Education in Tennessee | Disputed Territory in Maine | Abolition of Debtor's Prisons in Michigan | The Great Presbyterian Lawsuit between Old and New School | The Battle of the Pyramids by Alexander Dumars | The End of the War on the Northeastern Border by Winfield Scott | Affairs of the East: Declaration of the United States of Cabool, Candahar, and Herat [ Afghanistan ] | New Discovery in Fine Arts [ Fantastic Article on How Daguerre and his \"Daguerreotype\" would put painters and engravers out of business, p.50-51 ] | Shakspeare's Drinking-Bout. A Tale of the Toping at Bidford by J. R. Buckstone | The Trespasser in Maine; Or, the Memorable Expulsion of a Speculator from Certain Disputed Territory | [Claim] Jumping in Illinois | Wild Scenes in the West | Lectures on Phrenology and its Application by George Combe [Series] | Diamond Cut Diamond. A Pindaric. by Robert Turner | A New Discovery in the Fine Arts - The Daguerreotype | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes | Old Ironsides on a Lee Shore by an Eye Witness | The Panther's Leap. An Adventure in Illinois | The Crater of Kirauea, Hawaii. Sandwich Islands | A Fatal Duel in North Carolina | The Influence of Religion | Sleepy Hollow by Geoffrey Crayon | The Buffalo Baiting | A Day by the Merrimac | From the Antarctic Ocean | The Red Swan - A Tradition from the Algic Indians by Schoolcraft | The Phantom Ship | James Fenimore Cooper and His Critics | The Scandal-Mongers of Literature | Mexicans and Indians in Texas | The Connecticut Temperance Law | The Florida War not Ended | The Political Writings of Thomas Paine | Affairs in Florida [Extensive] | An Attempted Suicide |  Fairy Grove | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [series] | Santa Anna Superseded in Mexican Presidential Chair by General Bravo | War between the Chippewa and the Sioux | An Affair between a Whaling Captain and a Military Officer [Duel] | The Horrid Massacre of 120 Indians in Iowa | The Phantom Funeral | The Western Prairies | The Punishment of Death [Capital Punishment] | The Pawnees | The Lottery Ticket - A True Narrative | The Case of Dr. Holmes - The Murderer | The Outrage on the Erie - Murder of Miss Westfalls by Captain Appleby | \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge half leather quarto. Heavily rubbed with rear board nearly detached. As usual and expected, quite handled and rubbed. For reason, these volumes almost always seem to have textual deficits. This is textually complete as described. aside from pp.97-98 which is lacking 1\/4 sheet and pp.291-296 which shows minor losses at base of sheet impacting a few lines of text. No \"index\" to the second volume and thus ends on 414, making it textually complete aside from the index.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRICK GRUNDER'S LDS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this complete volume we are able to see even those Mormon articles which might normally elude the LDS market (in instances where a more valuable article on some other, non-Mormon subject would typically direct a given issue of this paper to a collector or institution specializing in another field). The index pages are typical of the period, and are not very helpful in locating the Mormon articles. I have therefore examined all the pages, and located \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eeleven historically important articles on the Mormons\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor word count reference, please note that the type of this newspaper is very small, so that a column inch of text may contain from eighty to a hundred words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArticles include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— September 22, 1838 [VI:1], p. 12: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 3¾ column inches on the critical Adam Black incident. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#AdamBlack\"\u003eAn important article; see below.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 6, 1838 [VI:3], p. 44: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2¼ column inches announcing that \"the Mormons have established a town in Missouri which they call the 'Far West,' . . . The people in the neighboring counties were very much alarmed, and are daily expecting an attack.\" The governor has called out 3,000 militiamen to protect the citizens of Missouri, and \"the supremacy of the law will be maintained.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 13, 1838 [VI:4], p. 59: \"The Mormons.\" 3½ column inches defending the Mormons. This important article presents the Saints' position, and reprints an affidavit signed in type by Joseph Smith, Jr., and Sidney Rigdon, insisting that the Mormons have not collaborated with the Indians \"to commit depredations upon the people of this State,\" contrary to the claims of \"a Mr. Nathan Marsh.\" \"'We have never had any communication with the Indians on any subject;\" certify Smith and Rigdon, quoted here, and we, and all the Mormon Church, as we believe, entertain the same feelings and fears towards the Indians that are entertained by other citizens of this State. We are friendly to the Constitution and the laws of this State and of the United States, and wish to see them enforced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJOSEPH SMITH, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e SIDNEY RIGDON.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 27, 1838 [VI:6], p. 91: \"\u003cem\u003eMormon Difficulties\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2 column inches, taken from the St. Louis Republican. A gentleman has arrived in St. Louis \"in the steamboat Kansas, on Saturday,\" and describes seeing \"about two hundred of the Mormons armed and prepared for conflict.\" Some eighty wagons of new Mormons have just arrived at a village, and the anti-Mormons have ordered the Saints \"to leave the country, and that if they did not go by Saturday they would be driven off.\" Real news, as it happened!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 3, 1838 [VI:7], p. 107: \"\u003cem\u003eMormon Difficulties\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 3¼ column inches, reprinting a letter of October 12 sent to the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Republican\u003c\/em\u003e. The anonymous writer has \"witnessed the departure of every Mormon in Carroll county for 'Far West,' in Caldwell county.\" It appears that the difficulties are being resolved (writes the correspondent, prematurely!), and it is a good thing: \"Had the Mormons refused to sell on the day the last proposition was made to them, it would have been a serious matter to both parties, for there was but little difference in their forces, and the citizens had come to a determination to make, if possible, a successful attack on the day the compromise was effected.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 17, 1838 [VI:9], p. 143: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2½ column inches of dramatic news of depredations committed by the Mormons themselves. The reports are copied from the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Republican\u003c\/em\u003e of Monday, October 29, followed by an update from the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e of October 31. The Mormons have burned the Court House of Daviess County, as well as the clerk's office, the Post Office, and two stores. Partial confirmation comes by travelers arriving at St. Louis on the 31st . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"By the steamer Astoria, we have a confirmation of the report of the burning of Daviess Court House, Post Office, and a store, by the Mormons.—It is stated that the Governor has ordered out 4,000 militia; and we understand that volunteer companies are rapidly being organized to march to the scene of action. The Mormons are said to receive daily accessions to their numbers, by emigrants from Canada.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis article has light staining, but is important as an essentially accurate depiction of how the Missourians viewed the Mormons at this time. The store which they burned (owned by Jacob Stollings, in Gallatin) had ironically helped the Saints by extending them credit and allowing Mormon emigrants to obtain necessities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 24, 1838 [VI:10], p. 159: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormon War Ended\u003c\/em\u003e. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\"  5 column inches, presenting urgent and conflicting news from various Missouri papers, including the arrest of Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt and others; Governor Boggs' infamous Mormon extermination order; and the first intimation of the Haun's Mill Massacre. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#SmithArrest\"\u003eImportant; see below\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— December 1, 1838 [VI:11], p. 172: \"\u003cem\u003eFurther from the Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 4 column inches. This is the report of the Haun's Mill Massacre in some detail, with an indignant editorial sympathetic to the Mormons. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#HaunsMill\"\u003eVery important; see below\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— December 15, 1838 [VI:13], p. 203: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormon War\u003c\/em\u003e . . .\" 1¼ column inches, taken from the \u003cem\u003ePoughkeepsie Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e. The Mormon War appears to be over. \"Joe Smith and his followers have surrendered, and Joe is to be tried, but for what crime does not clearly appear.\" The Haun's Mill reports are confirmed to be true. \"It was a bloody outrage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— March 16, 1839 [VI:26], p. 415: \"The Mormons.\" 1½ column inches, taken from the \u003cem\u003eJefferson Enquirer\u003c\/em\u003e, quote \"an extract from a letter dated Liberty, Feb. 9, 1839:\" The report describes an apparent attempt to break Joseph Smith and his fellow prisoners out of the Liberty Jail . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"There has been much excitement here within a few days past. Several young men from Far West arrived here late one night and asked permission to see the prisoners, which was granted. They seized the jailor and endeavored to let the Mormon prisoners escape; but an alarm was given and they were all taken into custody, and are to be tried tomorrow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The young men alluded to in the preceding extract, we presume are Mormons, as the inhabitants in and about Far West are all of that denomination, with a very few exceptions. The letter is from a source that may be relied upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— August 17, 1839 [VII:22], p. 350 (of Vol. VII): \"\u003cem\u003eMormonism\u003c\/em\u003e.\"  ¾ column inch, learning from the \u003cem\u003eTrenton Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e that the Mormon delusion has new exhibited itself in New Jersey, \"in the neighborhood of New Egypt and other places in Monmouth co. A number of the disciples appeared there some six months ago, and have succeeded in making converts of several persons of some standing and influence; and, strange as the story seems, their numbers are increasing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA note on the price of this volume:  Over the past decade or two, I have obtained a few loose examples of the same issues which are described above, and have sold them to major LDS institutions and private collectors - some for as much as $175 for a single example. Any newspaper report from the 1830s is interesting and rare, and these are particularly instructive. The combined value of the eleven Mormon articles present here (based upon my years of experience selling thousands of early Mormon-related newspapers) is easily $1,200 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summary of articles, above, I directed your attention three times to \"below.\" We are now \u003cem\u003ebelow\u003c\/em\u003e, and here are illustrations of some of the best Mormon reports which the present \u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e dangles before the fortunate, future owner of this old volume of 1838-9! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE ADAM BLACK INCIDENT:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis simple report belies the importance of an event which would escalate into the driving of the Mormons from Missouri with their prophet left languishing in the Liberty Jail. Here is high drama, as significant as the exaggerated text may suggest. In early August, 1838, Mormons in Daviess County, Missouri, had been barred from voting by a drunken mob of thugs. No one was killed, but rumors magnified the tension of the situation, and the Mormons began to take matters into their own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn August 8, Joseph Smith sent several Danite leaders to visit Judge Adam Black, a reputed anti-Mormon who lived nearby. When Black refused to sign a statement that he had no connections with vigilantes, Smith showed up half an hour later with a hundred armed men. After much discussion, Black, apparently under duress, wrote out a brief certificate that he would not molest the Mormons so long as they would not molest him. Other leading non-Mormon citizens received similar treatment. It sounded even worse as reported in the \u003cem\u003eMissourian\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper of August 12, from which the present newspaper coverage is taken (\u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eissue for September 22, 1838)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARREST OF JOSEPH SMITH;  BOGGS' MORMON EXTERMINATION ORDER; FIRST INTIMATION OF THE HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree crucial events come together in this dramatic article! For background and details, see Steven C. LeSueur, \u003cem\u003eThe 1838 Mormon War in Missouri\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia, Missouri: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1987), Chapter 10, \"Surrender.\" \u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e issue for November 24, 1838, p. 159.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust as the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah is held up by critics as the nadir of Mormon historical behavior, so do Mormons point to the Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri as the most extreme offense which the Missouri Saints endured. The slaughter took place on October 30, but preliminary reports are now confirmed in the New=Yorker issue for December 1, 18383, p. 172. The editor can scarcely credit the full implications of this event. \"Two children were killed,\" he presumes, \". . . by accident.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe children were not killed by accident. Sardius Smith, age ten, was deliberately shot point blank - with the reflection, \"Nits will make lice . . .\" Old Thomas McBride was hacked to death with a scythe after being shot in the chest with his own gun. (Stephen C. LeSueur, \u003cem\u003eThe 1838 Mormon War in Missouri\u003c\/em\u003e [Columbia, Mo., 1987], pp. 166-7). As the nation eventually came to accept the full horror of what had occurred, public sentiment outside of Missouri shifted to favor the Mormons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41353439739940,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-06547_17038ec4-b678-4caa-9c86-38cbe4534c1a.jpg?v=1714350328"},{"product_id":"1905-virginia-slavery-academic-work-on-status-of-the-negro-population-in-colonial-virginia","title":"1905 VIRGINIA SLAVERY. 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A very fine work investigating primary resource documents, including Colonial Charters, Laws Relating to the Import of Negroes, Slavery Laws, Case Law Involving Fugitive Slaves, Insurrection, Trials of Negroes, Regulations of Emancipation, etc., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eWest, Gerald Montgomery. The Status of the Negro in Virginia During the Colonial Period. Submitted as One of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Political Science, Columbia College. William R. Jenkins. 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Memoirs of Father Ripa, During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of Peking in the Service of the Emperor of China; with an Account of the Foundation of the College for the Education of Young Chinese at Naples. London. John Murray. 1844. 160pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e[Bound with]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis, Matthew Gregory. Journal of a Residence Among the Negros in the West Indies. London. John Murray. 1845. 184pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good + copy, bound in half leather, rubbed, but generally solid. 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Our Nation's Hope in Our Present Crisis: The Substance of a Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered in the Presbyterian Church of Middle Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday Morning, November 20, 1856. Harrisburg: A. Boyd Hamilton. 1857. 13pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDe Witt, William R. A Discourse Preached before the Church and Congregation of Middle Spring, Cumberland County, PA., on the Death of the Rev. John Moody, D.D. Their Late Pastor. December 26, 1857. Harrisburg. A. Boyd Hamilton. 1858. 32pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrownson, James I. A Sermon on the Christian Sabbath. Its Divine Obligation and the Mode of its Observance, Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Washington, PEnn'a., on Sabbath, August 1, 1858. Examiner Print. 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Haven. 1854. 32pp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBaird, Samuel J. The Socinian Apostasy of the English Presbyterian Churches. A Discourse Delivered on Behalf of the Presbyterian Historical Society, before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the First Presbyterian Church, New York, May 16th, 1856. Philadelphia. Presbyterian Historical Society. 1857. 34pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavidson, Robert. Presbyterianism: Its True Place and Value in History. A Discourse Delivered before the Presbyterian Historical Society, at the Annual Meeting, May 19th, 1853. Philadelphia. Presbyterian Historical Society. 1854. 28pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacobus, Melancthon W. A Sermon Preached in the Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA. 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Through that slave port, 25% of Americans to this day can trace their arrival in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVolumes like this placated the Southern church's desire for evangelism, but at the same time often framed Christian submission to the will of God as submission inside the societal structure, i.e. \"be a good slave.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo other copies on the market and highly desirable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDickson, A. F. Plantation Sermons, or Plain and Familiar Discourses for the Instruction of the Unlearned. By the Rev. A. F. Dickson, of Charleston, South Carolina. Philadelphia. Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1856. 170pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages, a small stain on the last few leaves; and remains of a library label on the pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41862726025252,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/09-24-2024SpecsFineBooks-2.jpg?v=1727277203"},{"product_id":"1832-john-sergeant-select-speeches-of-john-sergeant","title":"1832 JOHN SERGEANT [1779-1852]. Speeches on Slavery, Missouri Compromise, \u0026 Trail of Tears.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA scarce volume of lengthy addresses on slavery, the Missouri Compromise, the Cherokee Indians and the Trail of Tears, etc, by abolitionist Representative from Pennsylvania, John Sergeant. He was also running mate of Henry Clay for the Presidency in 1832. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNo copies in the trade and scarce at auction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergeant, John. Select Speeches of John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. E. L. Carey \u0026amp; A. Hart. 1832. 367pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good - copy, bound in cloth spine and paper boards, generally solid, with moderate foxing, handled pages. A rather severe bump and tear to the head of the spine extend to the rear board. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41863189135396,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/09-24-2024SpecsFineBooks-8.jpg?v=1727284116"},{"product_id":"1822-various-authors-the-christian-spectator-volume-iv","title":"1822 THE CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR MAG. Colonization, Abolition, Revivals, John Newton, \u0026c.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRather desirable early American periodical published out of the New Haven movement of the Great Awakening, i.e. those roughly aligned with the more open and evangelical views of Nathaniel W. 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His genealogical record is here:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/merriamfamilytree.org\/getperson.php?personID=I5367\u0026amp;tree=MFT001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume loaded with local and historical material of interest:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople and places mentioned: Rev. Mr. Sanford of Boylston; Rev. Mr. Biscoe; Rev. Ethan Smith [noted as a man over 80 years old]; Rev. Mr. Bates of Northbridge; Rev. Mr. Cary of Webster; Rev. Mr. Holman of West Millbury; Rev. Mr. Houghton of Northborough; Rev. Mr. Demmon; Rev. Mr. Dennis; Rev. Mr. Tracy; Rev. Mr. Edwards; Rev. Mr. Buckingham; Dr. Wood of Upton; Rev. Mr. Clark of Whitingville; ; Rev. Mr. Averil of Shrewsbury; Mr. Smith of Worcester; Rev. Mr. Fifield; Rev. Mr Tailor; Rev. Mr. Olcut of Uxbridge; Rev. Mr. Richards; Rev. Mr. Rice of Douglas; Rev. Mr. Burdet; Rev. Mr. Beach; Rev. Mr. Jennings; Rev. Mr. Emerson; Rev. Mr. Aucutt; Mr. Bushnell Preached for Communion [new Christians added]; Rev. Mr. Wild; Rev. Mr. Kitridge; Rev. Mr. Searle; Mr. Stowell from Maine; Rev. Mr. Levett; Rev. Mr. Rawson of Southboro; Rev. Mr. Griggs of Millbury; Rev. Mr. Ritchards [at the Baptist preaching house]; Rev. Mr. Smith [at the Baptist preaching house]; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexts and subjects included: Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only; be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good; the earth shall be filled with the knowledge and the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the seas; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls?; O death where is thy sting?; sermon by Joseph Tracy on Ephesians 3.10; I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter; Where is the Promise of His Coming [interesting in light of the eschatological expectations which had just passed]; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical notes mentioned: Accounts of six being added to the church by profession and baptized; attended the funeral of our daughter in law at Leicester[Jane S. Merriam, Wife of D. E. Merriam, our youngest son] with address by Dr. Nelson; Four added to the church by profession; funeral sermon for Mrs. Eames; Communion Lord's Day; Public Fast Day; Traveling to Upton to hear Rev. Benjamin Wood deliver his half-century sermon [with brief account of the sermon]; Funeral of the Widow Aaron Kimball; Rev. Mr. Samuel Worcester - Agent for Foreign Missions Preaching; Rev. Mr. Grosvener Preaching as Agent of the ABCHM for the West; Visit ofMr. Pratt Addressing the Congregation on the Subject of Colonization [Slavery, Liberia];  Agent for the Seamen Society Preaching; Funeral of Mr. Dwight Mann; Visit of Rev. Mr. Butler - A Bible Agent; Installation Service of Rev. William Warren at Upton, Preached by Rev. Mr. John Wild; \"This day Mr. Lovel Lowe committed suicide by cutting his throat;\" etc. Funeral of Carolina Aldrich at the Unitarian Meetinghouse; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also a fascinating note about a \"Stranger, Rev. 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Probably identifiable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a 15 month break in the record where he notes, \"It will be seen here, that 15 months past off and no record made. The reason was on the 5th day of February, 1847, I was thrown from a wagon to the frozen ground and so badly hurt that I have been unable to do any business since, but now am able to commence my record again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorn with boards nearly detached. Textually complete. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41907409977380,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/10-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-17.jpg?v=1729796169"},{"product_id":"date-james-gillespie-birney-letters-of-james-gillespie-briney-1831-1857","title":"1938 PLANTATION OWNER TO ABOLITIONIST. 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Appleton-Century Company Incorporated. 1938. 1189pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41951111839780,"sku":"","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/11-19-2024SpecsFineBooks-7.jpg?v=1732058950"},{"product_id":"1874-d-g-crotty-four-years-campaigning-in-the-army-of-potomac","title":"1874 CIVIL WAR - MICHIGAN. Four Years Campaigning in the Army of Potomac.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA rather scarce book on the Michigan Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Excellent first-hand memoir. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrotty, D. G. Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac, by Color Sergeant, D. G. Crotty, Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Grand Rapids. 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Owned Presbyterian Civil War Union Spy \u0026 Saboteur","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOwn a piece of Presbyterian history deeply associated with the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe present missionary annual is excellent in its own right, and the provenance is a snapshot reminding us of the fascinating variety of roles played clergy during the War between the States. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBoldy signed on the ffep, Wm Blount Carter. That would be William Blount Carter [1820-1902]. He was an American Presbyterian minister who intentionally positioned himself in Tennessee to engage in spy-craft and, ultimately, sabotage against the Confederate and Pro-Slavery cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBorn in Elizabethton, Tennessee, his entire family were Southern Unionists, his brothers becoming officers in the Union Army during the War. He left Tennessee to study theology at Princeton. He pastored at Rogersville, TN until ill-health forced him to return to Elizabethton. An avid abolitionist, he voted for Fairmont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to preaching and offered himself as Chaplain to local churches filled with Confederate troops, all the while listening for information, and engaging in guerrilla warfare against the Southern cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHis most ambitious action was that of the Tennessee Bridge Burnings of 1861, thereby cutting off supplies and fresh troop movements to Tennessee. It is thought that he proposed the plan to the Federal Government and that it was approved and ordered by Abraham Lincoln himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy 1862, it was considered too dangerous for him, and he and and others, including Parson Brownlow, etc., were evacuated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eContents include: Address on the Day of Humiliation Appointed by the General Assembly; The Country and People of Afghanistan; The Mission at Allahabad [Lengthy Series]; On the Children of Missionaries; Mission to the Creek Indians; The Furrukhabad Mission; Mission to the Indians of Iowa; Qualifications of a Missionary Wife; Letters from R. W. 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Rogers of Hawaii with a First Hand Account of the Revival on the Sandwich Islands; A Season of Special Revival at the Mission Room Meetings in Philadelphia; Revival in Carroll Co., Tennessee; etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA significant amount of content on slavery, including first-hand accounts of its effects in Africa by missionaries; Slavery and Afghanistan; Christians of Madagascar Sold as Slaves; etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnonymous. The Missionary Chronicle: Containing the Proceedings of the Board of Foreign Missions and the Board of Missions for the Presbyterian Church: and a General View of the Benevolent Operations. Vol. X...1842. New-York: Missions House. 1842. 384pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e[Bound With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnonymous. The Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. 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Gregory's Accounts of Native Americans; Missions in Java; London Jews' Society; Moravians Missions in Greenland and Labrador; Missions at Mauritius and Madagascar; The Murder of Missionaries; Triumphs of the Gospel in the Navigator Islands; Description of Various Locations in Palestine; Translation of Tracts into Panjabi; Multiple Articles on Missions in the Sandwich Islands [ Hawaii ]; The Murder of John Williams [important early account]; Influence of the Gospel in Tahiti, etc. etc. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial accounts of revivals on the mission field, including an account of a spiritual awakening at Krisnaghur; another at Albany, South Africa; account of a \"gracious revival\" in the Georgian Islands; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA significant amount of content on slavery, including accounts of African tribes engaged in the slave trade, Sierra Leone; two dollar slaves to be had in Zanzibar; the slave trade depopulating portions of Africa; the West Owes Africa Material and Moral Reparations for the Slave Trade; etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEngravings include of The Temple of Siva at Nassuck; Pagoda and Temple at Gya; Avatars of Vishnu; The Hindu Triad; etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnonymous. The Missionary Chronicle: Containing a Particular Account of the Proceedings of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church; and a General View of the Transactions of Other Similar institutions. Volume VIII. Published Monthly Under the Direction of the Executive Committee. New York. Published by Robert Carter. 1840. 328pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e[Bound With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnonymous. The Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. New-York. 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Owned Presbyterian Civil War Union Spy \u0026 Saboteur.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOwn a piece of Presbyterian history deeply associated with the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe present missionary annual is excellent in its own right, and the provenance is a snapshot reminding us of the fascinating variety of roles played clergy during the War between the States. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBoldy signed on the ffep, Wm Blount Carter. That would be William Blount Carter [1820-1902]. He was an American Presbyterian minister who intentionally positioned himself in Tennessee to engage in spy-craft and, ultimately, sabotage against the Confederate and Pro-Slavery cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBorn in Elizabethton, Tennessee, his entire family were Southern Unionists, his brothers becoming officers in the Union Army during the War. He left Tennessee to study theology at Princeton. He pastored at Rogersville, TN until ill-health forced him to return to Elizabethton. An avid abolitionist, he voted for Fairmont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to preaching and offered himself as Chaplain to local churches filled with Confederate troops, all the while listening for information, and engaging in guerrilla warfare against the Southern cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHis most ambitious action was that of the Tennessee Bridge Burnings of 1861, thereby cutting off supplies and fresh troop movements to Tennessee. It is thought that he proposed the plan to the Federal Government and that it was approved and ordered by Abraham Lincoln himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy 1862, it was considered too dangerous for him, and he and and others, including Parson Brownlow, etc., were evacuated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eContents include: Accounts of Missionary Work in South Africa; at Allahabad; The Sailing of J. P. Alward for Africa and His Subsequent Death; Missions at Assam; Presbyterian Mission at Bangkok Thailand; Biography of the Rev. Dr. Robert Morrison of China; Mission Stations in Burmah; Missionaries Wanted at Calcutta; Mission among the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians; Missionary to the Creek Indians; Beginning of the Presbytery of Florida; Dr. Grant's Visit to the Nestorians; Mission Stations in Greenland [Moravian - United Brethren]; J. C. Hepburn Sails for Singapore; Reports of the Scottish Deputation to the Jews [Robert Murray M'Cheyne, etc.]; Journal of the Rev. E. Kincaid among the Karens; Mission Stations at Labrador; Missions in Mexico and Texas; Letters from Rev. R. W. Orr of China; Account of Missions in Polynesia; Missions in Siam and Siberia; Sermon of Rev. Dr. Sprague on Missions; Native Mission among the Tambookies; Revival of Religion in Cape Town, A Revival among the Karens resulting in some 2,000 converts, etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA significant amount of content on slavery, including Slave Factories at Sierra Leone; Fatal blow to Slavery in Monrovia [Liberia]; On the Release of Slaves Captured from Slave Traders in Sierra Leone; Slave Factories in Gallinos; Revival of the Slave Trade in 1809; Animosity between Slave Traders and Missionaries; Slavery Makes Missionary Work Nearly Impossible; Attack on Liberia Prompted by Slave Traders; etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEngravings of a Native Wig-Wam; Hindu School Girl; The Great Pagoda at Rangoon; etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnonymous. The Missionary Chronicle: Containing the Proceedings of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church; and a General View of the Transactions of Other Similar Institutions. Vol. IX. Published Monthly, Under the Direction of the Executive Committee. New-York: Published at the Mission Rooms. 1841. 384pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e[Bound With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnonymous. The Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. May, 1842. New-York. Published for the Board. 1841. 32pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good - copy, bound in half leather; leather on spine is dry and heat damaged. Text inexplicably bound upside down. Generally solid, with moderate foxing and occasional stains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41970582814756,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/12-03-2024SpecsFineBooks-10.jpg?v=1733272760"},{"product_id":"1839-the-foreign-missionary-chronicle-volume-7-the-second-annual-report-of-the-board-of-foreign-missions","title":"1839 FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. Owned Presbyterian Civil War Union Spy \u0026 Saboteur","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOwn a piece of Presbyterian history deeply associated with the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe present missionary annual is excellent in its own right, and the provenance is a snapshot reminding us of the fascinating variety of roles played clergy during the War between the States. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBoldy signed on the ffep, Wm Blount Carter. That would be William Blount Carter [1820-1902]. He was an American Presbyterian minister who intentionally positioned himself in Tennessee to engage in spy-craft and, ultimately, sabotage against the Confederate and Pro-Slavery cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBorn in Elizabethton, Tennessee, his entire family were Southern Unionists, his brothers becoming officers in the Union Army during the War. He left Tennessee to study theology at Princeton. He pastored at Rogersville, TN until ill-health forced him to return to Elizabethton. An avid abolitionist, he voted for Fairmont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to preaching and offered himself as Chaplain to local churches filled with Confederate troops, all the while listening for information, and engaging in guerrilla warfare against the Southern cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHis most ambitious action was that of the Tennessee Bridge Burnings of 1861, thereby cutting off supplies and fresh troop movements to Tennessee. It is thought that he proposed the plan to the Federal Government and that it was approved and ordered by Abraham Lincoln himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy 1862, it was considered too dangerous for him, and he and and others, including Parson Brownlow, etc., were evacuated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eContents include: Accounts of Missionary Work in Sierra Leone; Missionary Work in Liberia; Extensive Accounts from the Moravian \/ United Brethren Missionaries in Greenland; Extensive Memoir of Jan Kapitein - Coranna Chief at Umbukani South Africa; Journal of the Rev. John Wilson at Subathu India; Fine Engraving of a Hindu Temple at Goruckhnath; Discourse - Missions the Chief End of the Church; Extensive Memoir of Early Puritan Missionary to the Native Americans, John Eliot; Missionary Work of the Jews Society, at Siberia; Letter from J. A. Mitchell of the China Mission; On the Naming and Educating of Heathen Children; Krishna and His Attendants [with a fine engraving]; Missions at Ceylon, Polynesia, and the South American Islands; On the Death of J. A. Mitchell of China; Visit of a Missionary to the Indians of Canada [Fine Engraving with Dog Sled, etc.]; Memoir of Abdool Messeeh; History of the New Zealand Mission; Letters from P. Dougherty of the Ottawa and Chippewa Missions; The Piety of Karen Christians; The Effects of Missionaries on the Aboriginees; Continued Persecution in Madagascar; Persecution of Karen Christians; The New Zealand War Expedition [with Fine New Zealand Warrior Boat Engraving]; The Hindu Goddess Kalee [Kali]; Iowa and Michigan Indian Missions; Extensive Series of the Journal of R. W. Orr of China; Memoir of Mowhee - Convert of New Zealand; The Devil of the Bulloms of West Africa [Illustrated]; Reproductions of Various Metal Chinese Types by Missionaries]; Dr. Alexander Duff's Missionary Sermon; Journal of Samuel Farman of the London Jews' Society; Missions among the Sioux Indians; Letter from Bishop Polk of Texas; etc. etc. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial accounts of revivals on the mission field, including among the Wyandot Indians, among the Seneca Tribe, Extensive Series on the Revival in Hawaii [more than 5,000 added to the Church; \"The revival is without precedent,\" \"We wonder whether anything like this has ever been\"], etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA significant amount of content on slavery, including: The Role of the Western Slave Trade in Increasing Tribalism in Africa; Memoir of Hadara - An Abyssinian Youth Sold Into Slavery [slave-ships, etc.]; The Abolition of the Slave Trade at Madagascar; The Bulloms near Sierra Leone sold to Slave-Traders [with a full page associated engraving]; etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVarious. The Foreign Missionary Chronicle: Containing a Particular Account of the Proceedings of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and a General View of the Transactions of Other Similar Institutions. Volume VII. Published Monthly Under the Direction of the Executive Committee. New-York: Robert Carter. 1839. 384pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e[Bound With]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVarious. Second Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. May, 1842. New-York. Published for the Board. 1839. 44pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with moderate foxing and occasional stains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41970591760420,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/12-03-2024SpecsFineBooks-11.jpg?v=1733273210"},{"product_id":"1856-mass-sabbath-school-society-infant-series-part-xii","title":"1856 MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY. The African Printer - A Warrior Chief Converted, \u0026c.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very scarce and well-preserved series of near-miniature tracts for the young, with an emphasis on themes related to Africa, India, Missions, the Nobility of the African Race, etc. Superbly illustrated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Naimbanna; or, Evil Passions Subdued. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Coranna Chief; or, Peace in Death. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. Bickersteth Bajan; or, Joy in Death. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Eagle's Nest; or,  A Mother's Love.Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The African Printer; or, Hope in Death. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Staircase Window. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. Kindness. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Warrior Chief; or, Meekness and Humility. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Beautiful Garment. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Last Day. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAnonymous. The Native Catechist; or, Christian Consistency. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Boston. Mass. Sabbath School Society. 1846. 8pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very good copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42020680138788,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/01-07-2025SpecsFineBooks.jpg?v=1736293983"},{"product_id":"1823-anonymous-the-quarterly-review-volume-29","title":"1823 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Formation London Anti-Slavery Society - Tour through Arkansas, etc.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAn excellent year of \u003cem\u003eThe Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, with extensive content relevant to the formation of the London Anti-Slavery Society that year. Additional excellent content on various first-hand accounts of Native Americans, life in Arkansas, etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Quarterly Review \u003c\/em\u003eis a periodical of special merit historically in the sense that the items reviewed are often reviewed extensively, interacted with, criticized, etc., for 20-30 pages, providing some of the most substantive responses available to early abolitionist tracts and works, and other publications of the time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnonymous. The Quarterly Review. Vol. XXIX. April \u0026amp; July, 1823. London. John Murray. 1823. 598pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very good copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021939150884,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/01-07-2025SpecsFineBooks-7.jpg?v=1736371248"},{"product_id":"1849-michigan-house-of-representatives-31st-congress-1st-session-resolutions-relative-to-ordinance-of-1787","title":"1849 MICHIGAN - SLAVERY. Michigan Formally Joins Calls Against Westward Expansion of Slavery.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA scarce single sheet issue of the proclamation of the Legislature of Michigan charging all elected officials to use all legal means to prevent the expansion of slavery, utilizing the principles of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMichigan House of Representatives. 31st Congress, 1st Session. Miscellaneous, No. 10. Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, Relative to the Application of the Principles of the Ordinance of 1787 to All the Territories of the United States. December 31, 1849. Laid Upon the Table, and Ordered to Be Printed. 1849. 1pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very good copy. Scarce. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42022012387364,"sku":"","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/01-07-2025SpecsFineBooks-11.jpg?v=1736375611"},{"product_id":"1860-john-brown-confederate-secretary-of-state-argues-john-brown-an-invasion-pro-slavery","title":"1860 JOHN BROWN. Confederate Secretary of State Argues John Brown an Invasion. Pro-Slavery.","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare drop title imprint by later Secretary of the Confederate States under Jefferson Davis, Robert Hunter of Virginia; his scathing response against Republicans and Abolitionists in the aftermath of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most sophisticated defenses of Southern slaveholding we have ever read. He intends to convince the Senate that Southern slavery is not only critical to the South, but that it is a conservative and stabilizing institution for the entire United States economy, social order, and constitution. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMr. President, is it surprising that these bitter seeds of sectional hate and alienation, which have been sown so industriously, should have borne their blood fruit in the raid of John Brown? Is it surprising that men who were taught to look on us [slaveholders] as accursed of man and God, and as sustaining institutions which are incapable of paliation or defence, feel that they are justified in attacking us by all the means in their power, no matter what the consequence? . . . it is to be remembered that the Republican party at this session chose for its candidate as Speaker of the other House a man who had indorsed a book which preached precisely what John Brown practiced; which recommended that they should get up servile war and dissension between the different classes of whites . . . [* i.e. \u003c\/em\u003eHinton R. Helper, \u003cem\u003eThe Impending Crisis of the South. How to Meet It\u003c\/em\u003e, 1857-1860 eds.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI say, therefore, that it is a moderate estimate to suppose that there are from three to four million human beings in the northeastern States who owe their livelihood and subsistence to the commerce of the South, who but for this commerce would either be forced to emigrate or to starve . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHas not [slavery] been eminently conservative [of the present national stability and Constitution]? Must it not be from the nature of things? The slaveholder, owning both capital and labor, represents both, and is interested in doing justice to both; and, therefore, he comes in as an impartial arbiter, so far as he has influence, to settle those disputes between capital and labor which occur in every civilized Government. Being, as the South is, a minority power in this Confederacy; having a great interest which is constantly assailed, and which it can only protect within the Union under the Constitution, its interests, as well as its principles, have made it the watch-dog of the Constitution, and the defender and the guardian of all the limitations and restrictions on the absolute will of the majority. Contributing as it does, more to the public fisc than it receives in return in the shape of appropriation, its interest leads it to economy of expenditures in the General Government. And are not these functions, which are undoubtedly performed by the South, eminently conservative? Are they not of great value and use to every section and every interest in this Confederacy [i.e. the entire Union]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy, sir, its [the abolitionists] series of propositions looked directly to a moral war, to be waged through the Government, and on the floors of the common Congress of the Confederacy, against this institution of the States, against their peace and safety. In defiance of the Constitution, the proposed to abolish slavery in the arsenals, in the dock-yards, in the District of Columbia, and, worse than all, they proposed to abolish the slave-trade between the States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut, sir, as the [abolitionist - Republican] party increased, it proceeded to take still more dangerous grounds; we heard it boldly announced that the guarantees given to the slaveholding interest in regard to fugitive slaves . . . were annulled by the obligations of a higher law. How they practiced upon this precept, we have seen in the list of shameful evasions of this constitutional obligation which was given us the other day by my friend from Georgia, Mr. Toombs, in the course of his masterly speech, when he referred to personal liberty laws of so many of the non-slaveholding States of this Confederacy [i.e. the United States]. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI ask, then, again, why this agitation, and why this war upon us? I am told that it is because slavery is a sinful institution - yes, sir, that the institution is a sin, and abhorrent to man and to God. Has now experience shown that when the black and the white race are thrown together, if you establish the relation of master and slave between them, that such a society is capable of a great development, morally, socially, and politically; that such an organization is best for the happiness of both races; and has it not been proved, by actual experiment, that if you destroy that relation, both races decline, and industry decays? Can that state of things be wrong which leads to the happiness of both races?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow, sir, if the negro race can be equal to the white race, as the Abolitionists maintain, it will vindicate its equality by its improvement . . . but if, on the contrary, he be an inferior, as I maintain and believe he is, then experience has shown that the happiest relation which you can establish between that race and the white is the relation of master and slave. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * * * *. * * \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMr. President, when I think of what it is that may be destroyed by this narrow spirit of sectional hate and bigotry, I turn away from the contemplation with a feeling of an almost indignant despair; but I will not, as yet, despair of my country. I will yet hope that the great army of northern Democrats and conservatives will arise in the might of a noble cause, and expel the intruders from the seats of power. I will trust in the influence of truth, whose empire is felt in every human heart when once it has touched it. I will put my faith higher yet - in Providence, for it cannot be that God will permit such a scheme of Government as this, freighted, as it might have been, with the highest hopes of humanity, to be wrecked in the wild orgies of madmen and fanatics. But, sir, if I should fail in these hopes, I may, then, indeed despair of the Union; but I will not despair of the ability of my constituents and of my fellow-citizens of the slaveholding States to throw off a yoke which will be doubly accursed and galling for having been laid by hands that ought to have been friendly; nor would I doubt their ability to establish for themselves a confederacy which may become and remain great, glorious, and free; and it will be to that Government that I shall then look for the protecting shadow under which I may repose in peace and safety for the remainder of the days that are allotted to me upon earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe goes on the argue that the master - slave relationship is more humane than the capital labor relationship in that the master has a vested interest in the health of the slave that ensures shelter, food, and care are received. 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Report on the Subject of Slavery, Presented to the Synod of South Carolina, at Their Sessions in Winnsborough, November 6, 1851, Adopted by Them, and Published by Their Order. Columbia, S. C. Steam Powered Press of A. S. Johnston. 1852. 16pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good copy, bound in wraps, shaken with the last leaf detached, with light to moderate foxing, and a few tears. From a larger sammelband with associated flotsam to spine. Complete as issued. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157541261348,"sku":"","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-11-2025SpecsFineBooks-29.jpg?v=1741898774"},{"product_id":"1850-robert-breckinridge-a-system-of-prospective-emancipation","title":"1850 ROBERT BRECKINRIDGE. A System of Prospective Emancipation. 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Examined by A Presbyterian in the Far South. Charleston, S. C. Steam-Powered Press of Walker \u0026amp; James. 1850. 23pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGood - condition in wraps, essentially disbound with moderate foxing as shown. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157557612580,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-11-2025SpecsFineBooks-32.jpg?v=1741899906"},{"product_id":"1854-j-h-thornwell-judgements-a-call-to-repentance","title":"1854 J. H. THORNWELL. Judgements, A Call to Repentance. Yellow Fever Outbreak in Charlestown.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFrom the vantage of the 21st century, this seems an odd one indeed. Following a severe outbreak of Yellow Fever arriving and spreading from the port of Charlestown, local pro-slavery Presbyterian divine, James Henley Thornwell, preached a sermon urging self-reflection, repentance, and fresh commitment to God, who had surely sent the plague as a corrective judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt seems strange that Thornwell would not once mention slavery, even slave in its worst forms, as a potential cause. He had condemned cruelty to slaves at other times, but for some reason, it isn't on the radar of this sermon. Perhaps tying slavery go God's judgment he felt made too much hay for the abolitionists to work with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRare. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThornwell, J. H. Judgments, A Call to Repentance. A Sermon Preached by Appointment of the Legislature in the Hall of House of Representatives. By J. H. Thornwell, D. D. President of South Carolina College. Saturday, Dec. 9, 1854. Columbia, S. C. R. W. Gibbes \u0026amp; Co., State Printers. 1854. 24pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very good copy, bound in wraps, generally solid, with generally bright pages, light foxing, and lightly handled pages as shown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157561348132,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-11-2025SpecsFineBooks-33.jpg?v=1741901129"},{"product_id":"1861-william-pennington-southern-rights-and-northern-duties","title":"1861 SAMUEL J. BAIRD. Southern Rights and Northern Duties. Abolitionists South-Haters!","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRather rare work on the impending crisis of the Civil War, in which Presbyterian, Samuel J. Baird, accuses norther abolitionists of being haters of the South, fanatics, and themselves bigots against anyone south of Richmond, etc. Appears to have been Baird's own copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBaird, Samuel J. Southern Rights and Northern Duties in the Present Crisis. A Letter to Hon. William Pennington. By Rev. Samuel J. Baird, D. D. Philadelphia. For Sale by Lindsay \u0026amp; Blakiston. 1861. 32pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good copy, bound in wraps, disbound, with generally bright pages, light foxing and a few small tears.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157596672036,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-11-2025SpecsFineBooks-37.jpg?v=1741903415"},{"product_id":"1861-j-h-thornwell-the-state-of-the-country","title":"1861 J. H. THORNWELL. On the Moral Dignity of Southern Slavery \u0026 Northern Hypocrisy.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA very important early articulation of the Southern \"dignified slavery\" position by prominent Presbyterian and pro-slavery, Confederate apologist, James Henley Thornwell. In it, he argues that Southern slavery is a dignified thing, that all true Southerners are opposed to the kinds of wild stories abolitionists tell, and that slaves will be better off under the Confederacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThornwell, J. H. The State of the Country: An Article Republished from the Southern Presbyterian Review. Columbia, S. C. Southern Guardian Steam-Power Press. 1861. 32pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good copy in wraps, essentially disbound, with light to moderate foxing. Flotsom on spine from previous sammelband. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157610270756,"sku":"","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-11-2025SpecsFineBooks-40.jpg?v=1741904955"},{"product_id":"1860-dentistry-in-wild-west-dentures-swallowed-oral-surgery-on-negroes-chloroform-deaths","title":"1860 DENTISTRY IN WILD WEST. Dentures Swallowed, Oral Surgery on \"Negroes,\" Chloroform Deaths.","description":"\u003cp\u003eInexplicably scarce, the present work was produced to train dentists who were sent en masse to populate the new towns of the Westward Expansion. Dentists were so core a feature of the new towns necessaries, that they appear in \"Westerns\" from the very beginning, alongside other stock characters, i.e. sheriffs, brothel owners, preachers, traveling salesmen, and bartenders. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo examples in the auction record and only a couple single issues in the trade, priced according to the scarcity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: New Fusible Allows by B. Wood; Dental Surgery by P. G. C. Hunt; Gutta Percha for Separating and Regulating Teeth by B. Wood; A New Method of Using Vulcanite by P. G. C. Hunt; Vulcanite Ideas; Discussions of the Kentucky State Dental Association; Buccal Inflammations - Diseases of Crystal and Glass Cutters; Dental Fistulas; Artificial Dentures by Dr. John Allen; Case of Abscess of Parotid Gland; Use of Chloroform and Aconite in Neuralgia; A Fatality from Chloroform; Adventure with the File by George S. Fouke; Appointment of Delegates to the Mississippi Dental Association; Selection and Arrangement of Teeth in Constructing Dental Substitutes by W. Calvert; Fang Filling - Read at a Meeting of the Mad River Valley Society by A. A. Blount; Fang-Filling and Treatment of the Alveolar Abscess by B. A. Rose; Account of the Mad River Valley Dental Society; Reforms in Medical Education; Treatment of Neuralgia by Subcutaneous Injection by A. Ruppaner; Swallowing Several Teeth Attached to a Plate with Safe Passage through the Bowels; The Buccal Secretions; Sensitive Dentine bty George F. Foote; The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Remedial Treatment of the Fifth Pair of Nerves by J. H. M'Quillen; The Oneness of Dentistry; A Critic Criticized; Development of the Teeth of Cattle and the Mode of Ascertaining their Age by the Same; Province of the Dentist by J. Taft; Purple of Cassius by William Calvert; Hypertrophy; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Alvin Blakesley of Utica [with frontis portrait]; A Rare Form of Fracture of the Lower Jaw Treated by a Novel Method by E. J. Fountain; Ether and Chloroform; Defective Assimilation in Infants - Its Prevention and Treatment by Dr. Routh; Sulphuric Ether as a Substitute for Chloroform; More Deaths from Chloroform; Treating and Capping Exposed Nerves; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf special note, two fine engraved full size illustrations of \"Blackman's Case of Osteo Sarcoma of Lower Jaw,\" pre and post operation. A rare early account of surgery on a person of color in the United States, performed, ironically, by George C. Blackman on Lemuel Hinedon at St. John's Hospital in Cincinnati. It is unclear whether it was an act of compassion or \"research.\" Regardless, the editors seem pleased with the results, and seem to show the surgery as a piece of social uplift by the construction of the pre-surgery engravings in traditional southern slave's best garb and the after engraving in full New England suit. Interestingly, the author references other \"negro\" surgery literature, as though perhaps expecting surgery to function differently, etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaft, J. and George Watt [eds.]. The Dental Register of the West. Cincinnati. J. T. Toland, Publsiher, 38 West Street. 1860. 367pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good - example. Textually quite good, clean and sound. Binding has taken the worst of it with part of spine lacking as shown, both boards detached. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42164691566628,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-18-2025SpecsFineBooks-8.jpg?v=1742336151"},{"product_id":"1850-lieut-wise-los-gringos","title":"1850 HENRY A. WISE. Los Gringos. Explorations in Mexico, California. Donner Party Interest.","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA superb early \"outsider\" travelogue composed by Lieutenant Henry Augustus Wise of the United States Navy. He also wrote under the moniker, Harry Gringo, and is a particularly lively, original [by that I mean, he exaggerates a good bit] author, discussing in detail his travels and the people of South and Central America, Mexico, California, even a sting on Hawaii. He participated in the Donner Party situation and seems to be source \"A\" for some of the most lurid details, many of which are now considered apocryphal. See \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/187\/oa_monograph\/chapter\/202086\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSignificant content from the Mexican War, including accounts of the battles of San Pascual, San Gabriel and La Mesa, Fremont, Monterey, the town of Yerba Buena, the blockade of Mazatlan, etc. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWise, Lieut. Los Gringos: Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia. New York. Baker and Scribner. 1850. 453pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA good to good - copy, bound in cloth, lightly shaken, with a few signatures forward in the binding, and light to moderate foxing as shown. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42169175932964,"sku":"","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-18-2025SpecsFineBooks-6.jpg?v=1742343307"},{"product_id":"1832-virginia-pro-slavery-legislator-whose-son-fires-first-virginia-shot-for-confederacy","title":"1832 VIRGINIA PRO-SLAVERY. Legislator Whose Son Fires First Virginia Shot for Confederacy.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVery scarce early pro-slavery speech by Virginia Legislator, John Thompson Brown. Abolitionist sentiments had been dispersed in Virginia throughout the late 1820's and early 1830's. Brown brought it to the floor under the idea that it must be discussed sooner or later. Thus, it should be discussed by choice, and the matter put to bed, as it were. Yes, he is that dismissive of the idea of abolition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHis arguments are fairly straightforward. It's practically impossible and would destroy the Virginia economy. Nothing can be \"moral\" that destroys the lives of Virginia's [white] citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHis son, also John Thompson Brown [1835-1864], a Colonel in the Confederate Army. He was active on May 7, 1861, at the Battle of Gloucester Point, VA, and is credited by many historians as having fired the first Confederate shot in Virginia. He was killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of the Wilderness in May of 1864. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrown, John Thompson [Sen.] The Speech of John Thompson Brown, in the House of Delegates of Virginia on the Abolition of Slavery. Delivered Wednesday, January 18, 1832. Richmond. Thomas W. White. 1832. 32pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGood copy, textually complete and removed from a larger sammelband at some point. Some generally minor ex library marks. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42187327733796,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/03-25-2025SpecsFineBooks-19.jpg?v=1743192550"},{"product_id":"1888-confederate-chaplain-radical-chaplain-accused-of-spying-and-kidnapping-runaway-slaves","title":"1888 CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN. Radical Chaplain Accused of Spying and Kidnapping Runaway Slaves.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA very smartly preserved biography of Methodist [South] radical minister and pro-Confederate, pro-Slavery agitator, Rev. John B. McFerrin [1808-1877].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAt the onset of Civil War, McFerrin applied to serve as Chaplain immediately. He was given sensitive positions at border cities like Nashville and used his clerical cover to act as a spy, offer information to recapture slaves fleeing to the north, and to radicalize and convert Union sympathizers. He himself owned a significant estate and number of slaves, all of which were forfeit at the failure of the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e[Rev. John B. McFerrin]. Fitzgeral, O. P. John B. McFerrin. A Biography. Nashville, TN. Publishing House of the M.E. 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