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C.S.A. PRIVATEER TRIED FOR "PIRACY"
C.S.A. PRIVATEER TRIED FOR "PIRACY"
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C.S.A. PRIVATEER TRIED FOR "PIRACY"
Printed speech: "United States vs. William Smith. Piracy. Speech of Hon. William D. Kelley.", 14pp. 8vo., printed by King & Baird, Phila., in yellow wrappers. This 1861 trial, held in Philadelphia, found crewman William Smith of the Confederate privateer JEFF. DAVIS guilty of piracy in an attack on the schooner ENCHANTRESS. Smith planned to sell captured crewmember Jacob Garrick, a free black, into slavery in Charleston. CSA President Jefferson Davis retaliated in a letter to Abraham Lincoln warning that any death penalty meted out would be met with equally harsh treatment given to Union sailors. This pamphlet prints Kelley's comments, a judge in the trial and Pennsylvania representative. Rear cover bears a large chip.
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