The Consolation of the Southern Patriot”  caption title to an essay pining for the good old days of the ante-bellum United States

by Lost Cause, Manuscript

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP: np, nd ca. 1875? . Purple ink on lined paper, the title in bold ink, likely in a slightly later different hand. Folio. 3, 1 pp., approximately 600 words, an anonymous manuscript essay extolling America's governance by the “Southern Statesmen” before it was taken by Northern fanatics and partizans,” in part: “ Seward boasted the day of triumph had come; that Southern rule was at an end and that the North had grasped the sovereignty of the nation

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