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Lot 406: 1860 Confederate Civil War Tract

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Lot  406: 1860 Confederate Civil War Tract
<b>CW¥C¥Documents</b><hr><b>'The Right To Secede'</b>

<b>1860 Confederate Tract, 'State Sovereignty and the Doctrine of Coercion' and 'The Right To Secede by ÔStates,Õ' Choice Very Fine or better.</b>
36 pages, stitched binding, no covers (made that way). Written by the Hon. William D. Porter, with a letter from the Hon. J.K. Spaulding, Former Secretary of the Navy. Strong arguments for the right of States to secede from the Union, made on the eve of the election of Abraham Lincoln: 'The election of Lincoln is now well nigh certain. Nothing short of a miracle can prevent it. Lincoln is the chief and exponent of a party that is purely sectional -- a party that has no foothold or resting place south of a geographical line, precisely separating the slaveholding from the non-slaveholding States...' A phenomenal tract, one weÕve never seen before, that helped push the Southern States into a state of rebellion that began the Civil War!