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[CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA]. DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889). Inaugural Address of President Davis, Delivered at the Capitol, Monday, February 18, 1861, at 1 o’clock P.M. Montgomery, AL: Shorter & Reid, 1861. 8vo (197 x 133 mm), 8pp. (Offsetting to title, final leaf browned and with marred edges on recto including some paper and adhesive transferring, top edge trimmed close). RARE FIRST EDITION OF DAVIS’ INAUGURAL ADDRESS, printed in Montgomery before the Confederate capital was moved to Richmond. In his address, Davis officially announces the withdrawal of the seven slave states (soon to be 11 states which would form the Confederacy) from the Union and declares himself as a new head of state within America. Crandall 607; Parrish & Willingham 895; Sabin 15274.
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