Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Quadricentennial Edition of the Floridian Facsimile Reprint Series of the 1888 editions with prefatory material, introduction notes, and index added. New material copyright by the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions of Florida. Lithoprinted by Douglas Printing Company, Inc. Jacksonville, Florida

Series: Great thoughts of a wise statesman ; no. 14

At head of title: National Union Club documents. Speeches of Honorable Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Honorable Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Honorable O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the Club. Notes: Cover title. On verso of title page: National Union Executive Club, 490 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C. ... Platform of the National Union Club. On last page, publisher's advertisement for the daily and weekly National Republican, with address of the publisher, W.J. Murtagh & Co. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: pages trimmed rough and too closely along bottom edges with some loss of text. Edges trimmed to 21 cm. Contents: Speech of Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, May 11, 1866 -- Speech of Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, delivered at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May 19, 1866 -- Speech of Hon. Hugh M'Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury, on the night of the 23d of May, on the occasion of the serenade tendered by the National Union Club -- Letter from Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois -- Letter to Hon. Alex. W. Randall, President of the National Union Club -- The condition of the South : report of Special Commissioner Benjamin C. Truman.

At head of title: National Union Executive Committee. Speech of Honorable John Hogan, of Missouri. Notes: Caption title.

Text printed in two columns. FAU Libraries' copy has unopened pages.

Includes verse. Poems. Poetry. Cover title. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.

Cover title.Title within type-ornament border. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers, side stitched with cord.

Address of Honorable Charles D. Drake, to the Radical Union men of Missouri
Notes: Caption title. Printer’s name at foot page 4. "April 20, 1868"--Page 4.Two columns to the page.

National Union Republican party of the United States, assembled in National Convention. Republican national platform adopted at Chicago, May 21, 1868.Notes: Caption title. Signed (page 3): Harrison G. Otis [and 4 others] Colophon reads: Gibson Brothers, Printers, Washington, D.C. Address of the Printers' Grant and Colfax Club of the District of Columbia (First line: To our fellow-craftsmen throughout the Union) -- Republican national platform adopted at Chicago, May 21, 1868 (First line: The National Union Republican party of the United States, assembled in National Convention) -- Additional resolutions adopted.

Speech of Hon. O.P. Morton. Speech of Honorable O.P. Morton. Notes: Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy has unopened pages.