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Disunion & the national crisis... Mormons on Lincoln's election...
Disunion & the national crisis... Mormons on Lincoln's election...
Item # 691532
December 11, 1860
NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 11, 1860
* Pre-Civil War Southern tensions - secession ?
* Mormons on Abraham Lincoln's election
A great issue from several months before the outbreak of the Civil War, with ominous first column heads including; "THE NATIONAL CRISIS" "The Secession Question Before Congress" "Latest Reports From the South" and more.
Also on the ftpg: "A Bold Protest Against Disunion--Letter from John Minor Bolts Protesting Against Secession" datelined from Richmond.
Page 2 has: "The Fugitive Slave Law & the Personal Liberty Laws" followed by: "Affairs In Utah--Reception of the News of Lincoln's Election--Assembling of the Legislature--The Governor's Message" which has interesting content concerning the Mormon reaction to Lincoln's election.
Page 4 has: "The Fear of Slave Insurrections" in South Carolina and refutations of it. Also: "The North & South--Their Commercial Relations".
Eight pages, some archival strengthening at the spine, some minor disbinding indentations at the spine, generally nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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