United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865

Caption title: Speech of George Ticknor Curtis. Notes: Cover title. "Read--discuss--diffuse." Pages also numbered 57-67 at foot, through-numbering for the Papers. Two columns to the page. FAU copy has "Geo. P. Hambrecht" stamp on cover.

Everett's speech reporting on the War and calling for support for the president and the Union. British edition title: Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before the Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863. Running title: Address before the Union club. Notes: "The disunion policy of the Cotton States, and the proceedings in the Senate of the United States on the Crittenden resolution."--Page [57]-61. "Riverside, Cambridge:... printed by H.O. Houghton"--Title page verso. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed, affecting inscription at top of title page. FAU Libraries' copy has inscription: To the New Jersey Historical Society, from S. Alofsen. Jersey City, Dec. 10. 1863.

Speech includes promotion of George Woodward for governor. Speech of Honorable Jeremiah S. Black

Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.

Tribune war tracts ; no. 2. Alternate title: Also known as: Character and results of the war : how to prosecute and how to end it. Speech of Major-General Butler
Notes: Caption title. Other editions have title: Character and results of the war : how to prosecute and how to end it. Speech preceded and followed only by a brief description of the occasion, and printed without subheadings. Includes at end the text of a "song in praise of Gen. Butler" sung by the Union Glee Club, "Come friends who love freedom, and join in our song", with chorus: "Marching along, we're marching along; For our flag and our country we're marching along; Let us cheer for our Butler and join in the song, For treason was blighted where he marched along." Advertisement for the New-York tribune, with address of the Tribune Association: page 8. Collation: [unsigned, 1⁴]; 4 leaves, pages [1] 2-8. Printed in 2 columns. "Character and results of the war ... N.Y. Tribune war tracts, no. 2." FAU copy edges have been trimmed to 22 cm.

Speech of Honorable Abram B. Weaver, of Oneida, on the governor's annual message, delivered in the House of assembly of the state of New York, March 10th, 1863. Cover title. Includes a poem by Sir William Jones, page 20.

The continent is trembling [poem, by E. Delafield Smith] -- Address at Union Square, at the war meeting ... in response to an appeal of the President ... for additional military forces -- Speech at Madison Square at the meeting held April 20, 1863 -- Resolutions presented ... at a union meeting held at Cooper Institute, New York, October 29, 1863.

Series: Papers from the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge ; no. 9. Notes: Caption title. Above title: "Columbus convention." "Read--discuss--diffuse." Pages also numbered 133-140 at foot, through-numbering for the Papers. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.

Opinion of Honorable John M. Read, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.Notes: "Delivered at Pittsburg, on Monday, November 9, 1863." "Three bills in equity were filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District by three individuals against the officers of the Enrolling Board of the Third Congressional District, praying for injunctions to restrain the defendants from further proceeding with or under such enrolment, requisition, and draft, under the Act of 3d March, 1863, and particularly from all proceedings against the said plaintiffs. The ground alleged for these applications was the unconstitutionality of this act of Congress."--Page [2]. Printed marginalia. A longer version (31 pages), with additional opinion, also issued in 1863: "Opinions of Hon. John M. Read." FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 21 cm.

"A surrender to the rebels advocated--a disgraceful and pusillanimous peace demanded--the federal government shamefully vilified, and not a word said against the crime of treason and rebellion. "FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages. Summary: Extracts from speeches at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 29-30, 1864, designed to put the speakers and the Copperhead theme of an "honorable peace" in a bad light. The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats "copperheads", likening them to the poisonous snake. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed the abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted President Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.