1860-1865 SLAVERY & CIVIL WAR. Rare Sammelband of 20+ Items on Slavery, Civil War, &c.

A truly exceptionally sammelband of over 20 individually published items here bound in a single sammelband. The volume contains multiple significant items which are unobtainable on the market.

The star of show for this particular volume is Cornelius Edgar's exceptionally rare Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted, on the use of the curse in its application to the negro race and to their enslavement, etc., Extensive treatment in 48 pages. Never offered at auction we trace and no copies in the trade. 

Also, Schaff on Slavery, Rice on Slavery, sermons before mustered soldiers ready to head to the front, a series of fascinating Presbyterian works protesting the church's willingness to serve "under" the United States Government, etc., A choice volume. 

Contents include:

Baird, Samuel J. Training of the Children. For the Princeton Review, January 1863. 28pp.

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Edward, Jonathan D.D., LL.D. The American College. An Address Delivered by Jonathan Edwards on Occasion of His Inauguration as President of Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1866. Washington, PA. Printed at the Reporter Steam Book and Job Office. 1866. 20pp.

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Phillips, William W. A Missionary Address. Delivered in Newburgh, Oct 16, 1860, before the Synod of New York. 27pp. [Extracted]

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Schaff, Philip. Slavery and the Bible. A Tract for the Times. Chambersburg, PA. M. Kieffer & Co's Caloric Printing Press. 1861. 32pp. [March, 1861]

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Marriage to a Deceased Wife's Sister Valid. Arguments of Rev. D. W. French, and Rev. J. P. Scott before the General Presbytery of the U.P. Church, held at Monmouth, ILL. May, 1869. Mercer, PA. Dispatch Office. 1869. 

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Our Country. Its Peril. It's Deliverance. March, 1861. 43pp. 

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McIlvaine, J. H. A Nation's Right to Worship God. An Address before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies of the College of New Jersey, June 28, 1859. Trenton, N.J. Murphy & Bechtel. 1859. 44pp. [two copies]

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Warner, J. R. [inscribed with compliments]. Our Times and Our Duty. An Oration Delivered by Request of the Gettysburg Zouaves before the Citizens Civil and Military of Gettysburg and Vicinity, in Spangler's Grove, July 4th, 1861. Gettysburg. H. C. Neinstedt. 1861. 16pp [Excellent sermon to mustered soldiers from Gettysburg, early in the Civil War]

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The Fathers of the Harrisburg Presbytery. Reprinted from the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, October, 1860. Philadelphia. William S. Young. 1860. 29pp.

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Higbee, E. E. The Christian Conception of History. An Address by E. E. Higbee at His Inauguration as Professor of Church History and Exegesis in the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, PA. Philadelphia. S. R. Fisher & Co. 1868. 68pp.

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Sunday Railroad Work. 16pp [No publication details]

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Jones, George E. The Fowler Prize Essay, 1869. An Essay on Lord Bacon's Life and Essays, by George E. Jones, of the Class of '69, Lafayette College. Easton, PA. Wood & Bunstein. 1869. 26pp.

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Harris, J. Morrison. The Egyptian Prince and Hebrew Lawgiver. Delivered before the Literary Societies of La Fayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Commencement of 1867. Baltimore. John Murphy & Co. 1868. 34pp.

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Stanton, R. L. A Vindication of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (O.S.), of 1866, from the Aspersions of the Rev. William Brown. [And] Synod of Kentucky on Slavery. 16pp. [No publication data; scarce leaflet]

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Skinner, Thomas H. Dr. Skinner's Answer to Dr. Morris. 9pp. [No publication data; scarce leaflet]

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Andover and Danville. 15pp. [No publication data; scarce leaflet]

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Declaration and Testimony against the Erroneous and Heretical Doctrines and Practices which have Obtained and Been Propagated in the Presbyterian Church, in the United States, During the Last Five Years. 1865. [Very scarce protest against the Presbyterian churches professed "allegiance" to the Union Government, i.e. the subversion of the reign of Christ underneath the reign of Lincoln, protesting the War, the church's engagement in the politics of abolition, etc.] 26pp. Adopted by the Presbytery of Louisville, KY.  [cropped close at foredge]

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Musser, Daniel. Non-Resistance Asserted: Or, the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom of this World Separated, and No Concord between Christ and Belial. In Two Parts. Lancaster, PA. Elias Barr & Co. 1864. 74pp.

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Hodge, A. A. Addresses at the Inauguration of Rev. Archibald A. Hodge as Professor of Didactic, Polemic, and Historical Theology in the Western Theological Seminary; Comprising the Charge to the Professor, by the Rev. James M. Platt. And the Inaugural Address by Archibald A. Hodge. Pittsburgh. James McMillin. 1864. 51pp.

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Rice, N. L. Lectures on Slavery; Delivered in the North Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Chicago. Church, Goodman, & Cushing. 1860. 96pp [missing perhaps a final sheet of the appendix]

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Robinson, T. H. Socrates and Arnold; or, The Ancient and Modern Teacher. 24pp

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Fraternal Appeal to the Friends of the Evangelical Alliance and of Christian Union Generally; with a Provisional Sketch of a Plan for General Protestant Union. 16pp.

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Crawford, J. A. Pastoral Letter Read to the Falling Spring Church of Chambersburg, PA. January 15, 1871. Chambersburg, PA. 1871. 16pp. 

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Skinner, Thomas H. Defense of Presbyterian Doctrine and Order Against the False Unionism and Liberalism of the Times. Cincinnati. Gazette Company Print. 1876. 35pp [Cropped close at foredge]

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Laws, S. S. For the Old School Presbyterian. A Letter by the Rev. S. S. Laws, LL.D. to the Synod of Missouri (O.S.). Which met at Columbia, Missouri, October 8, 1872. St. Louis. Southwestern Book & Publishing. 1872. 100pp. 

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Edgar, Cornelius H. The Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted, and Kindred Topics. Three Lectures, Delivered at the Reformed Dutch Church, Easton, PA. 1862. New York. Baker & Godwin. 1862. 48pp. [closely trimmed]

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The Sabbath and the Pulpic [Doc. No. XX., November, 1861]. 8pp. 

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Emerson, Edwin. On the Perception of Relief. From the American Journal of Science and Arts. November, 1862. 5pp.