THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1862  This anti-war newspaper insisted slavery should not be abolished, so consequently much content has an anti-North bias.
Certainly the most notable content is one of the more famous letters from Abraham Lincoln, being his reply to Horace Greeley's editorial of August 20, "A Prayer of Twenty Millions", which urged emancipation. Following Greeley's letter, Lincoln replies, which includes his famous quote: "...My paramount object...is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it...", signed in type: A. Lincoln.
This was a significant letter expressing Lincoln's views on slavery from the middle of the Civil War, and is doubly noteworthy to have this in an anti-war newspaper.
Other fine content within includes: "Letter from Jeff. Davis to Gen. Lee" signed in type: Jeff. Davis; "General Lane's Order on the Enlistment of Negroes" and so much more.
Eight pages, great condition.

Described as "The Hottest Rebel Sheet to be found in the North or the South", this newspaper opposed the war and attracted the hatred of the Republicans and the Lincoln administration. It insisted that slavery could not be prohibited by law. So obnoxious was this paper to Unionists that it was denied circulation in some cities. In 1863 the press was raided by a hateful mob.