Pamphlets issued by the Loyal Publication Society, Numbers 1-44, Unpaginated, The Loyal Publication Society, 1864. Bound half-leather, marble boards.
First edition of the pamphlets published by the Loyal Publication Society, whose purpose was to publish and distribute material "of unquestionable loyalty throughout the United States . . . in the army and navy, and in hospitals, thus to diffuse knowledge and stimulate a broad national patriotism, and to aid in the suppression of the Rebellion by the extinction of its causes, and in the preservation of the integrity of the Nation, by counteracting the efforts of the advocates of a disgraceful and disintegrating peace." In their first months, the group would read newspapers to identify particularly useful articles and editorials. It would then contact the editors—before the type had been broken up—and request that additional copies of that particular item be printed. These items would then be distributed to Union soldiers or to newspapers. As the war progressed, the society began to write and publish its own pamphlets, which included contributions from well-known persons such as Robert Dale Owen.
This first edition publication of the New York Loyal Publication Society includes bound copies of numbers 1-44 and include the following highlights:
no. 1. Future of the North West / by Robert Dale Owen
no. 2. Echo from the Army: extracts from letters of soldiers
no. 3. Union mass meeting, Cooper Institute, March 6, 1863: speeches of Brady, Van Buren
no. 4. Three voices: the soldier, farmer and poet
no. 5. Voices from the Army: letters and resolutions of soldiers
no. 6. Northern true men: addresses of Connecticut soldiers; extracts from Richmond journals
no. 7. Speech of Major-General Butler, Academy of Music, New York, April 2, 1863
no. 8. Separation: war without end / by M. Edouard Laboulaye
no. 9. The venom and the antidote
no. 10. A few words on behalf of the loyal women of the United States / by one of themselves
no. 11. No failure for the North / from the Atlantic monthly no. 12. An address to King Cotton
no. 13. How a free people conduct a long war / by Charles J. Still
no. 14. The preservation of the Union: a national economic necessity / from the German commercial gazette
no. 15 Elements of discord in Secessia; The vulgarity of treason; Dialogue between an old-fashioned Jackson Democrat and a Copperhead
no. 16. Address read at the inaugural meeting of the Loyal National League in Union Square, New York, on the 11th of April, 1863
no. 17. The cause of the war: who brought it on, and for what purpose? / Charles Anderson
no. 18. Opinions of the early presidents, and of the fathers of the Republic, upon slavery, and upon negroes as men and soldiers
no. 19. Einheit und Freiheit
no. 20. Military despotism: arbitrary arrest of a judge!
no. 21. Letter addressed to the Opera House meeting, Cincinnati / by Charles Anderson
no. 22. Emancipation is peace / by Robert Dale Owen no. 23. Letter of Peter Cooper on slave emancipation no. 24. Patriotism, a Christian virtue: a sermon preached by the Rev. Joseph Fransioli at St. Peter's (Catholic) Church, Brooklyn, July 26th, 1863
no. 25. The conditions of Reconstruction, in a letter from Robert Dale Owen to the Secretary of State; Letter from Hon. S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury to the Loyal National League
no. 26. Letter of Gen. A.J. Hamilton of Texas to the President of the United States
no. 27. Nullification and compromise: a retrospective view / by John Mason Williams
no. 28. The death of slavery: letter to Governor Seymour; A letter to His Excellency Abraham Lincoln / Peter Cooper
no. 29. Slavery, plantations, and the yeomanry
no. 30. Rebel conditions of peace; and the mechanics of the South
no. 31. Address of the Loyal Leagues of the State of New York to the people of the State of New York, October 20, 1863
no. 32. War power of the president; Summary imprisonment; Habeas corpus
no. 33. The two ways of treason or, the open traitor of the South face to face with his skulking abettor at the North
no. 34. The Monroe doctrine / Edward Everett
no. 35. The arguments of secessionists: a letter to the Union meeting, New York, September 30, 1863 / Francis Lieber
no. 36. Prophecy and fulfillment. In opposition to secession in 1860 / A.H. Stephens; In favor of reunion in 1863 / E.W. Gantt
no. 37. How the South rejected compromise in the peace conference of 1861 / speech of Mr. Chase, of Ohio
no. 38. Letters on our struggle / by Brig.-Gen. Thos. Francis Meagher
no. 39. A reply to the Bible view of slavery by J.H. Hopkins / by H. Drisler
no. 40. The conscription act / George B. Butler
no. 41. R?eponse de Mm. de Gasparin, Laboulaye, Martin et Cochin, a la Ligue loyale et nationale de New York
no. 42. Reply of Messrs. Agenor de Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin, to the Loyal National League of New York, together with The address of the League, April 11, 1863
no. 43. Antwort der Herren Agenor de Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin und anderer Freunde Amerikas in Frankreich
no. 44. Proceedings at the first anniversary meeting of the Loyal Publication Society, February 13, 1864.
Measures 8.75".

Condition - Bound half-leather, marble boards. Scuffed edges of boards. 1.5" tear at top of gilt leather backstrip. Foxing in front matter, end papers, edges and some text.
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