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From the Confederate capital on the 13th Amendment: freedom for slaves...

Item # 694438
February 09, 1865
DAILY DISPATCH, Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 9, 1865  It is difficult to find Confederate newspapers from late in the war, such as this one.
The special content in this issue would be the two items concerning the recent passage of the historic Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution which prohibited slavery.
The front page has a report beginning: "In yesterday's Dispatch we published the large legislation of the Yankee Congress abolishing slavery...The proposition which that body has passed is for the incorporation into the Constitution of an amendment ordaining that 'neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States..." with so much more.
Additionally, page 2 has: "The Yankee Abolition of Slavery--Speech from Lincoln" which begins: "The 'constitutional amendment' for the abolition & prohibition of slavery 
throughout the country' has been received by the Yankee people with enthusiasm & is being acted upon by the Legislature of some of the states..." with more.
The are other war-related reports in this issue, but they pale in comparison to the above.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, a 3 1/2 by 4 inch piece was clipped from an upper corner of the back leaf affecting just ads on page 3 but some reports on page 4, otherwise in nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #366 - released for May, 2026