In the North, but pro-South... Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus...

Item # 707601

September 23, 1863

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1863 This anti-war newspaper insisted slavery should not be abolished, so consequently much content has an anti-North bias.
Among the articles is a front page account headed: "President's Proclamation - He Suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus Throughout the United States" which is signed in type: Abraham Lincoln. Habeas Corpus is a court order demanding that a public official (such as a warden) deliver an imprisoned individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention.

Other items include: "Negro Citizenship - Fathers, Save Us from Negro Equality" "President Lincoln to Mr. Wood signed in type: A. Lincoln, with Mr. Wood's response to Lincoln; "No Peace Until Slavery is Torn Out, Root and Branch" and much more.

Eight pages, nice 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.