Trying to hold on to the platform of the Southern Confederacy...
Item # 702059
December 19, 1880
THE SOLID SOUTH, Memphis, Tennessee, Dec. 19, 1880 This is the volume 1, number 3 issue of a newspaper about which we can find nothing. This is the first of this title we have seen in our 50+ years.
Page 3 has a full column detailing: "Our Platform" which includes among its precepts: "Stand by the right of Secession, at whatever risk...Nullify the War legislation of Yankeedom...Make treason odious by making the memory of Lincolns, Stantons, and John Browns forever infamous...Unfurl the State flag high over the paltry Stars and Stripes..." and much more.
This was obviously a newspaper focused on what was the lost cause of the Southern Confederacy.
Four pages, folio size, various tears at the margins with some margin loss, but no loss of text.
Page 3 has a full column detailing: "Our Platform" which includes among its precepts: "Stand by the right of Secession, at whatever risk...Nullify the War legislation of Yankeedom...Make treason odious by making the memory of Lincolns, Stantons, and John Browns forever infamous...Unfurl the State flag high over the paltry Stars and Stripes..." and much more.
This was obviously a newspaper focused on what was the lost cause of the Southern Confederacy.
Four pages, folio size, various tears at the margins with some margin loss, but no loss of text.
Category: Post-Civil War












