NEW YORK WORLD, Feb. 12, 1862  The front page has: "Important Resolutions Of Senator Sumner", which is followed by the full text of his historic series of resolutions outlining what quickly became known as his radical "State Suicide Theory." 

Alongside this landmark constitutional argument, the issue features ongoing reports and official dispatches from the front lines of the American Civil War which help to provide context. The front page column heads on the Civil War are: "The War In Kentucky" "Reported Evacuation of Bowling Green" "The Rebels Moving Toward Nashville" "The War in Tennessee" "Fort Donelson Surrounded" "A Battle Imminent" "Roanoke Island Taken" and more. 
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, Foxing and wear at the folds with a small hole at the front leaf fold juncture.

The significance of this issue centers on Charles Sumner’s influential and controversial blueprint for post-war Reconstruction. As a leading Radical Republican in the Senate, Sumner argued that by seceding from the Union, the Confederate states had effectively committed "state suicide"—thereby forfeiting all their constitutional rights, statehood, and sovereignty, and reducing their territory to unorganized federal soil under the direct jurisdiction of Congress. This radical legal doctrine laid the intellectual foundation for Congress to strip former Confederate states of their authority, enforce emancipation, and mandate civil rights protections as mandatory conditions for readmission to the Union. Published in the nation's capital just one day after Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, this issue captures the fierce legislative debates over the future of the American South at a decisive turning point in the war.

Complete in four pages, in very nice condition.