NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Dec. 8, 1860  

* Pre Civil War Southern tensions building
* Last State of the Union Address before outbreak

Many interesting articles within, including: "The Basis of Slavery" "Secession, Past and Present" "The Secession Movement--Charleston Correspondence--Outrages Upon New Yorkers in Savannah--State of Feelings in Virginia--The Truth in South Carolina" "Secession In The Senate--Shall we Have Peace or War?--A Southern Confederacy Announced" "Emigration from the Slave to the Free States" "The Child In The Grave, by Hans Christian Andersen".
Also within is: "The President's Message" which is the annual state-of-the-union address to the nation, signed in type: James Buchanan.
Eight pages, good condition.

Background: The convergence of these specific reports within a single December 1860 issue captures the precise, volatile moment the United States fractured beyond repair. Coming exactly one month after Abraham Lincoln’s polarizing election, the newspaper documents the onset of the "Secession Winter," a chaotic interregnum where the Deep South rapidly mobilized for separation while the federal government paralyzed itself. President James Buchanan's message laid bare this executive impotence, famously declaring secession illegal but admitting he lacked the constitutional authority to stop it. By juxtaposing this legal vacuum with terrifying ground-level realities—clandestine agreements announcing a Southern Confederacy, geopolitical parsing of Virginia's loyalty, and rising violence against Northerners in Savannah—the issue serves as a real-time ledger of a collapsing republic. It catches a desperate nation suspended in the brief, terrifying window where peaceful reconciliation was exposed as a fantasy, making the transition from a political crisis into an inevitable, bloody civil war visible on a single piece of newsprint.