United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes

Running title: Society of Tammany celebration, 1873. Notes: Cover title."Liberty consists in the limitations of government."

Cover title: Memorial address of Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, on the life, character, and services, of William H. Seward. Notes: Publisher's advertisement, with "notices of the press," for Seward's Travels around the world: pages [2-4] of covers. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed blue wrappers, side stitched with cord.

Caption title. "From the Cin. gazette of Nov. 24th, 1865"--Page [1]. "At the state senatorial convention of the Union Party"--Page [1]. Text printed in two columns. FAU Libraries' copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages.

This is the story of the February 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed. Most of America's great statesmen came together at the historic Willard Hotel in a desperate attempt to stave off Civil War. Participants included Lincoln himself. Seven southern states had already seceded, and the conferees battled against time to craft a compromise to protect slavery and thus preserve the union and prevent war. Revelatory and definitive, The Peace That Almost Was, demonstrates that slavery was the main issue of the conference, and thus of the war itself, and that no matter the shared faith, family, and friendships of the participants, ultimately no compromise could be reached.
At head of title: Non-extension of slavery the policy of "the fathers of the Republic."--Slavery allowed, though disapproved, in the old states, but absolutely prohibited in the territories and new states. - Effect of this policy, and its bearing upon the modern doctrine of state rights and state equality, stated and considered.
"Appendix:" pages [29]-31.FAU Libraries' copy side stitched with cord.

Series: Loyal Publication Society (Series) ; no. 56. Alternate title: Also known as: Assertions of a secessionist (vice-president of so-called Confederate States). Cover title. Differs from another edition only in arrangement of type, page 8 beginning: demands; and in printer's name at foot of page 8: Francis & Loutrel...Stephens' 1860 speech previously published as Loyal Publication Society series no. 36. Includes text of the extract from Stephens' speech delivered at the convention of Georgia, January 1861: "This step (of secession) once taken, can never be recalled ...", pages 6-8. Stephens calls to consider the propriety of secession.

By John Elliott Cairnes, M.A., professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen's college, Galway; and the late Whately professor of political economy in the University of Dublin. Also published under title: The revolution in America. Publisher's advertisement final page. FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm. Has inscription: To the N. Jersey Hist. Soc., from S. Alofsen. Jersey City, May 16. 1863.

"Edward O. Jenkins, printer & stereotyper, no 20 North William St."--Title page verso. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed paper wrappers, side stitched with cord.

Emancipation resolutions. In opposition to the "emancipation resolutions." FAU copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages.

Cause and cure of secession. Notes: "Delivered at Pratt's Hall, Providence, R.I., on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 8, 1861, and repeated by universal request, at the same place, on Tuesday evening of the following week." "Pierce & Berry, printers... Providence, R.I."--Title page verso. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm. Has inscription: To the New Jersey Historical Society, from S. Alofsen. Jersey City, June 1st. 1863.

On verso of title page is a list of officers of the Young Men's Republican Union, etc. Another edition was published in 1861 without this list, but with a frontispiece (portrait). Text printed in two columns. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.