1865 CHARLES SUMNER. Warns Republicans Slavery Continuing under Racist Policies & Non-Citizenship

A rather scarce and important publication, issued in at least three printings immediately after the speech was given. No order of priority is known.

The speech was given kess than six months after the Civil War had ended and Sumner was in earnest to ensure the Republican State Convention remained vigilant as “Neither the Rebellion nor Slavery is yet ended. The Rebellion has been disarmed; but that is all. Slavery has been abolished in name; but that is all.” He then adds: “Emancipation not complete, so long as the black’ code exists… Slavery begins by denying the right of a man to himself; and the Black Code fortifies this denial by its cruel exclusions. Every freedman must be secured in this right by admission to the full panoply of citizenship.”

Sumner, Charles. The National Security and the National Faith; Guarantees for the National Freedman and the National Creditor. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, at the Republican State Convention, in Worcester, September 14, 1865. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1865. 21pp.

A good + copy, in wraps, essentially disbound, with bright, clean pages.