Speech of Benjamin Wood, of New York, on the State of the Union, in the House of Representatives, May 16th, 1862
Washington, D.C. McGill, Witherow & Co., 1862. First Edition. Octavo, 14 pages, publisher's original printed wraps. Speech of Benjamin Wood, of New York, on the State of the Union, in the House of Representatives, May 16th, 1862 is an important Civil War-era political pamphlet by New York congressman Benjamin Wood, a prominent Peace Democrat and critic of the Lincoln administration’s prosecution of the war. Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives during a critical period of the American Civil War, the speech addresses the preservation of the Union, federal power, wartime policy, sectional conflict, and the prospects for reconciliation between North and South. Wood’s remarks offer a revealing contemporary perspective on Northern Democratic opposition to the war and the political divisions surrounding secession, emancipation, civil liberties, and executive authority. Published in Washington, D.C., by McGill, Witherow & Co. in 1862, this scarce original pamphlet is of particular interest to collectors of Civil War history, Abraham Lincoln-era politics, Peace Democrats, Copperheads, congressional speeches, American political history, slavery and emancipation, and nineteenth-century Americana. Formerly an institutional copy, with ink stamps, a vertical crease, and a few small tears and chips, slight foxing, else in very good condition. Item #580
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