United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861

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.

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.

Caption title. Imprint from colophon, page 8."Washington, February, 1861."--Page 8.

Senate document (New York (State). Legislature. Senate) ; 1861, no. 20. Alternate title: At head of title: State of New York. No. 20. In Senate, February 1, 1861. Caption title. "E.D. Morgan"--Below caption title, page [1]. "Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States": pages 3-5."Joint resolutions relative to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union": pages 6-8. Summary: 1861 Tennessee resolution proposing pro-slavery amendments to the United States Constitution and the Pennsylvania resolutions against the recently passed Ordinance of Secession. Tennessee's resolution includes 9 propositions to be embraced as amendments to the U.S. Constitution, regarding recognition of slaves as property, defining slave holding territories, protecting property rights with respect to fugitive slaves, and permanently limiting the power of Congress to outlaw slavery; further resolving, if such a "plan of adjustment" not be acceded to, that the slave states, and any Northern states electing to do so in union with them, may adopt for themselves the Constitution of the United States, so amended, as their own, and sever connections with states "refusing such reasonable guarantees to our future safety."

Caption title: To the people of Maryland. Notes: "Baltimore, February 23, 1861"--Page 17. FAU copy has original blue printed wrappers.

By Hon. Robert M. Palmer, speaker of the Senate of Pennsylvania, at the reception of President Lincoln at Harrisburg, and the raising of the national flag on the dome of the Capitol, on the 22d day of February 1861. Includes verse. FAU copy has original printed decorated covers, side stitched with cord; edges trimmed to 22 cm

Published in the same year by Geo. C. Rand & Avery, under title: Oration delivered before the city authorities of Boston on the Fourth of July, 1860. Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy without the paper cover, trimmed to 19 cm.

In support of the Southern Democratic ticket of John C. Breckinridge and Daniel S. Dickinson. Signed at end: Isaac I. Stevens, Chairman. Text in two columns, publication data on t.p. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 24 cm.

Delivered at Buffalo and Washington : at meetings held to ratify the nomination of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, for President and Vice-President. Caption title. Text in two columns."Presidential campaign of 1860. Republican Executive Congressional Committee ..." campaign advertisement on page 8. Includes extract from a speech by Lincoln in 1858, and his letter to Canisius, May 17, 1859. Republican Platform adopted by the Chicago Convention, May 17, 1860 -- Remarks of Mr. Spaulding -- Extract from a speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln -- Letter from Mr. Lincoln. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.