An exceptionally rare volume issued in New York at the onset of the Civil War, containing fast day sermons from the Civil War, but each preached by pro-Slavery Presbyterians and associated. It's a who's who of Confederate preachers of the era, including R. L. Dabney, J. H. Thornwell, B. M. Palmer, Robert J. Breckinridge, Henry J. Van Dyke [the notorious anti-abolitionist], and then . . . quite naughtily, a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher entitled "Peace be Still," preached just two weeks after South Carolina's Articles of Secession in which he urged calm and peace . . . it seems impossible that Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother, consented to have his sermon used as a lever to forestall action against slavery or to be seen in the company of anti-abolitionists.
No copies in the trade. Not at auction since 1913.
Various Authors. Fast Day Sermons: Or The Pulpit on the State of the Country. New York. Rudd & Carleton. 1861. 336pp.
A good - copy, bound in cloth that is heavily chipped on the spine, but generally solid, with light foxing.
