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TWO CIVIL WAR SATIRICAL COVERS

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TWO CIVIL WAR SATIRICAL COVERS
Pair of Civil War satirical Union covers depicting the South as the Devil leading the Southerners to secession, including 'Secession is nearly played out, so I will go back to my H...ole.' and 'Trees-on a hard road to travel.' WITH: Post-WWI broadside 'An Appeal to Americans! People of the United States, do speak a word of command!' originally from a German newspaper asking the American people for better treatment of Germany following the war, reprinted editorial from 'Bremer Nachrichten' on November 14, 1920, 20.5 x 7.25 inches. Mailing folds and heavy splits. Despite asking for help and leniency, the writer goes on to blame Americans for WWI saying, 'Without you joining our enemies we would have held our own in spite of our enemies superiority in numbers, and we would have obtained a peace, annihilating neither us nor any body else. It was only a pretence [sp] that you entered into this war on account of the attack of our submarines on vessels flying your flag...Today every German knows that Wilson, the representative of your country, has betrayed our people and our country...The hollow-eyed faces and the emaciated little arms of many thousands of starving, German children are directed toward you...Assist us in our awful distress and free us from the claws of greed and mad hatred of an enemy, long ago psychically defective!...People of the United States! Wake up from your lethargy and pay your debt to Germany!' Three pieces.