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Title: Liberty--a power among the nations Barlow, in the eighth book of his Columbiad, gives a portrait of slavery which every freeman should study. ... New York, June 10, 1861 No. 4
Description: Printed in red and blue; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 21.8 x 13.0 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Liberty (2)5786.F.176a (McAllister)

Title: A proclamation by the President of the United States I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare ... Done in the city of Washington this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Uni Sta Pres 5792.F.30b (McAllister)

Title: Familiar songs latinized Published for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission
Description: Two sections side by side, each printed inside ornamental borders, each with a caption title; the English language version of each song appears next to its Latin or Greek translation., Latin translations are signed J.H.A., and Greek translations are signed C.B.S., The United States Sanitary Commission was organized in June 1861 and disbanded in May 1866., Contents of Familiar songs latinized: He giveth his beloved, sleep -- The three little kittens -- Jack and Jill., Contents of Familiar songs hellenized: Home -- Uncle Ned., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Familiar (1)5781.F.3a (McAllister)

Title: Freedmen's and Union Refugees' Department of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Circular Saint Louis, Mo., March 17th, 1864. The war for the Union has shaken the prison of slavery to its foundations, and is to demolish it utterly. Many millions of slaves are liberated. The nation has accepted the able-bodied men among them as soldiers, and they are surpassing all expectations by their good conduct. The families of these accepted defenders of the republic are homeless; are unused to the responsibilities of freedom; are destitute of all things. ... There are also thousands of homeless whites, made so by the rebellion. ... N.B. This is believed to be the only fair which has such a department
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (1864 : Saint Louis, Mo.). Freedmen and Union Refugees' Dept, Freedmen and Union Refugees' Dept
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Miss Valley (2)5781.F.143a (McAllister)

Title: Union ticket! Protection to American industry
Description: Printed in red, blue, and black., The illustration, signed Adrian-Probasco Phila., shows diverse Americans, including one African American, gathered around the U.S. flag, in front of the temple of liberty, with scenes of agriculture, commerce, and industry; surmounting all is the legend: Constitution and the law., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; possibly the top hald of a double-sheet poster?, Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Union (5)5777.F.28 (McAllister) 1 1

Title: New England fanaticism Who are the real disunionists? In a speech at Framingham, Massachusetts, July 4th, 1863, Wendell Phillips, now the great apostle of abolition, said, "The Union without liberty (to the negroes,) is tenfold to-day more accursed than it was any time the last quarter of a century. ... The Rev. Dr. Tyng, at a meeting of thre Freedmen's Relief Society, New York November 9th, 1863, said, "No gradual emanipcation now. No compensated emanicpation now Now put the axe to the root of the tree, and down with it--down with it." ... Horace Greely, before any state had attempted to go out of the Union, said, "If the cotton states, unitedly and earnestly, wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so. ... In "Helper's impending crisis," published in 1860, a book that was recommended by the present Secretary of State, will be found (pages 155-6,) these words: "No Union with slaveholders; ineligibility of slaveholders to office; no recognition of pro-slavery men, except as ruffians, outlaws, and criminals."
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. note: November 1864., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 New England (6)5777.F.51 (McAllister)

Title: At a meeting in the Representatives Hall of the capitol of Tennessee on the evening of September 12th, 1864, Col. R.D. Mussey, Judge J.M. Palmer, Dr. R.L. Stanford, and Captain J.F. Rusling were appointed to prepare an address expressive of the sentiments of the meeting. They submitted the following: To the loyal men and women of the loyal states---Greeting: We, officers and soldiers of the armies of the United States, stationed here, desire to join with you in devout ascriptions to the only giver of victory, ... Three years ago, when traitors attempted to destroy our nation, we all pledged ourselves to our country. ... We know that never before were the Rebels so nearly conquered. ... We have victory in our hands. If we fail to clutch it and retain it now, we are criminal, ... Believe not, brothers and sisters, we beseech you, those men, who preach a peace to be gained by our submission. ... Black men have in this war fought bravely for our flag, on the ocean and on the land. They have been true to our cause, and it would be monstrous injustice to allow them ever again to be held as chattels by the perjured traitors who once owned them. ... Brothers and sisters, we spurn the proffered "sympathy" of traitors who have never voted a man nor a dollar towards putting down this rebellion; and, not as partizans, nor politicians, but as patriots, we beg you, ... to elect Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Description: "This addressed was adopted, and the committee directed to circulate it for signatures. Copies may be obtained at Captain Rusling's office, on Cherry Street, or Colonel Mussey's officer, on Cedar Street." There are 58 names of signatories appended., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 At a meeting (6)5777.F.77 (McAllister)

Title: Jeff. Davis The last ditch "Bless my stars if dere aint Massa Jeff Davis in de las' ditch at last
Description: Caricature of Jefferson Davis., Printed area, including border, measures 20.9 x 11.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Jeff 5795.F.13a (McAllister)

Title: The modern Democratic creed! Letter of John Brodhead, Democratic candidate for City Treasurer. Philadelphia, March 7th, 1860. Mr. Jefferson Davis. My dear sir:---Can you tell me if General Larman is likely to remain much longer in Nicaragua? I should like to go to that country and help open it to civilization and niggers. I could get strong recommendations from the president's present friends in Pennsylvania for the place, were the mission vacant, and I think I would prove a live minister. I am tired of being a white slave at the North, and long for a home in the sunny South. Please let me hear from you when you have leisure. Mrs. Brodhead joins me in sending kind remembrances to Mrs. Davis and yourself
Description: "The modern Democratic creed!" was a feature of the Republican campaign literature in the Philadelphia city election of 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brodhead, John
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Brodhead (6)5777.F.104 (McAllister)

Title: Railroad Guards, fall in! With officers that have seen service in the field To arms! To arms! $50 bounty $50 Recruits wanted to fill Co. "H," Railroad Guards 100 days service. Apply at head-quarters: Frankford Road, above Huntingdon Street. Pay and rations as soon as mustered and pay from time of enrollment
Description: Charles S. Brown, Captain of Co. H of the 91st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, resigned Feb. 22, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 222., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with a blank banner., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Railroad Guards, Company H.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Railroad (1)5777.F.55b (McAllister)

Title: The Olive branch. Peace and union. How shall we obtain them? 1st. Apply to the British minister to bring about foreign interference? ... 2d. Hold out the olive branch, confess our error in having resented the bombardment for Fort Sumter, propose peace and union, and with becoming dignity await the answer which the South cannot fail to give to its faithful ally, the Democratic Party? ... 3d. Let our "wayward sisters" go, and give up all hope of the Republic to secure intercourse on the basis of mutual good will and respect? ... 4th. Submit to the Rebels, let them close the Mississippi River, blockade the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay, divide the United States east and west by the Ohio River, pursue their run-away slaves through the remaining states with force and arms, and finally, let us beg them to permit us to remain in our homes as long as it seems good to them. ... Democrats, is this the kind of peace and union, or disunion, for which we beg the European interference in American affairs through the British ministers?
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Olive 5786.F.171a (McAllister)

Title: W.W. Owen, Democratic candidate for jailer "Equal rights to all--exclusive privileges to none." Fellow citizens: The Louisville Democrat of the 26th June contains an editorial so entirely consonant with my views that I cannot restrain my desire to lay portions of it before you in the form of a circular. ... Our opinion is, that there are no greater enemies to the restoration of the Union that the abolition partisans at Washington. ... It is convenient to charge those who denounce the schemes of this dominant party with sympathy with the rebellion. It is a cheap mode of defense. ... I wish votes, but only upon honorable terms, nor do I wish the vote of any abolitionist or any one sympathizing with that unpatriotic and detestable party
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Owen, W. W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Owen 5786.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: W.W. Owen, Democratic candidate for jailer "Equal rights to all--exclusive privileges to none." Fellow citizens: The Louisville Democrat of the 26th June contains an editorial so entirely consonant with my views that I cannot restrain my desire to lay portions of it before you in the form of a circular. ... Our opinion is, that there are no greater enemies to the restoration of the Union that the abolition partisans at Washington. ... It is convenient to charge those who denounce the schemes of this dominant party with sympathy with the rebellion. It is a cheap mode of defense. ... I wish votes, but only upon honorable terms, nor do I wish the vote of any abolitionist or any one sympathizing with that unpatriotic and detestable party
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Owen, W. W.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Owen 5786.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: Institute for Colored Youth. 716 Lombard Street, Philadelphia The managers of the Institute for Colored Youth desire to place before the view of the friends of the institute, and of others who take an interest in the intellectual advancement of the colored race, the following statement of facts connected with the financial condition of this school. ... Below will be found a subscriptions list, upon which the reader is requested to place his name, with the amount which he is willing to contribute annually for three years or a longer period
Description: "The greatly increased cost of living has rendered necessary an advance of the salaries of our teachers, ... An appeal was made to the friends of the institute for annual subscriptions for a short term of years, which met with a liberal response ..."--Institute for Colored Youth, Annual report, 1865, p. 17., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864 or 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Inst Col Log.(1)1322.F.115 (McAllister)

Title: An abolition traitor There are traitors in the North as well as in the South, and there are abolitionists in the South as well as in the North. Some of the southern abolitionists have strange views in regard to slavery and its abolition. Among the rest, the distinguished son of Georgia, Hon. Robert Toombs, holds a prominent place. ... In speaking of the Negro, he said
Description: One of nine broadsides attributed to Sinclair Tousey and W.O. Bourne in NUC pre-1956, and assigned the collective title "Draft riots of 1863 of New York City; 9 handbills such as were handed about the city to allay the excitement." Two of them have the imprint "Sold by Sinclair Tousey, 121 Nassau St. ...", Signed: A Democratic workingman. New York, Aug. 29, 1863., Printed area measures: 43.7 x 25.3 cm., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 49-50.
Creator: Democratic workingman
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare # Am 1863 Demo 11419.F

Title: Old Abe Lincoln and his abolition war!
Description: Verse in two cantos; first line: Who sowed the seeds of discontent, hatred, strife., Caption title., Includes four letters, each signed "Julien": first, to James Gordon Bennett, dated Louisville, Sept. 8, 1861; second, to the president, dated Chicago, Aug. 10 1861; and third and fourth, both address "Dear Brother," and dated New York, Nov. 28 and New York, Dec. 22, 1861., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 56.5 x 41.2 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Julien
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Julien 5792.F.90 (McAllister)

Title: A stated meeting of the Society of the Home Friends of the Volunteers and Enlisted Men of Bethlehem and Vicinity will be held at the Sun Hotel on Saturday evening, May 2, at 8 o'clock
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Society of the Home Friends of Volunteers and Enlisted Men (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Soc Home (2)5786.F.86c (McAllister)

Title: "Bray-more," or the Welles-iad An epic in two bottles. A long way after Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma."
Description: Verse in fifteen stanzas; first line: If the torpedoer's torpedes., Caption title., This poem appeared in Charles G. Halpine's The life and adventures, songs, services, and speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly (New York : Carleton, 1864), in a letter dated "In camp, Folly Island, S.C., April 25, 1863", under the title "An idyl of the iron-clads.", The First Battle of Charleston Harbor took place on April 7, 1863, and involved a fleet of ironclad ships for a naval assault on Charleston, S.C. Mentioned in the poem are Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commander of the naval forces, and Alban C. Stimers, designer of ironclad vessels., Printed on p. [1]-[2] only., Library Company copy has a MS. stanza inserted following the second stanza on p. [1], and MS. correction in the text on p. [2]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Halpine, Charles G. (Charles Graham), 1829-1868
Date: [not before 1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Halpine 5782.F.16d

Title: Important announcement! Lossing's pictorial history of the great Rebellion. ... Persons possessing pamphlets, or other materials relating to the Rebellion, will confer a favor by sending them to the author, Benson J. Lossing, Esq., Poughkeepsie, N.Y
Description: Includes letters of recommendation dated March 1862. The pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America was published in parts by G.W. Childs between 1866 and 1868., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; ink stamp: From John Penington & Son. Philada., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Childs, George William, 1829-1894
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Childs (2)5786.F.45b (McAllister)

Title: New Ethiopian Serenaders now performing at Washington The Black Republican Opera Troop, now occupying the White House, respectfully inform the public that they have, at great expense to the nation, engaged the celebrated clown and acrobat, Abe Linkum, This artiste, so famous for his fete (a joke) between Harrisburg and Washington in March, is the source of much interest, though not a man of much principle. (another joke.) By permission of Gen. Beauregard he will in a few days conclude his entertainment with a flying leap from the dome of the Capitol to the Illinois State House. W.H. Seward, manager
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 New Eth 5793.F.22c (McAllister)

Title: History of the war for the Union: civil, military and naval. By Evert A. Duyckinck illustrated with highly-finished steel engravings of battle scenes by sea and land, and full-length portraits of naval and military heroes, from original paintings by Alonzo Chappel. ... Conditions of publication. The work will be issued in semi-monthly parts, printed on superfine paper, each part containing one elegant engraving on steel, price 25 cts. each. No subscriber's name will taken for less than the entire work. The parts a payable on delivery, the carrier not being permitted to give credit or receive money in advance. The plates will be printed on India tinted paper prepared expressly for this work. Subscribers removing, or not being regularly supplied, will please address the publishers by mail, or otherwise
Description: Duyckinck's National history of the war for the Union was published in 78 parts from 1861 to 1866., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images fo the American Civil War.
Creator: Johnson, Fry & Co.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Johnson (2)5786.F.108d (McAllister)

Title: History of the war for the Union: civil, military and naval. By Evert A. Duyckinck illustrated with highly-finished steel engravings of battle scenes by sea and land, and full-length portraits of naval and military heroes, from original paintings by Alonzo Chappel. ... Conditions of publication. The work will be issued in semi-monthly parts, printed on superfine paper, each part containing one elegant engraving on steel, price 25 cts. each. No subscriber's name will taken for less than the entire work. The parts a payable on delivery, the carrier not being permitted to give credit or receive money in advance. The plates will be printed on India tinted paper prepared expressly for this work. Subscribers removing, or not being regularly supplied, will please address the publishers by mail, or otherwise
Description: Duyckinck's National history of the war for the Union was published in 78 parts from 1861 to 1866., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images fo the American Civil War.
Creator: Johnson, Fry & Co.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Johnson (2)5786.F.108d (McAllister)

Title: The New-York weekly Caucasian. The white man's paper The proprietors of The Caucasian are happy to announce that, "the press being once more free," they can now send their paper by the mail. The Caucasian is issued by the publishers of The day-book, the place of which it will take for the present
Description: The New-York weekly Caucasian was published from Oct. 1861 to Sept. 1863; The New-York Weekly day-book Caucasian was published from Oct. 1863 to May 1868., Printed area measures 19.6 x 11.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Van Evrie, Horton & Co.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Van Evrie 75106.O

Title: Geschichte des Krieges für die Union. Von Evert A. Duychinck Deutsch bearbeitet von Freidrich Kapp. Mit vortrefflichen Stahlstichen, Originalbildern von Schlachten und Seegefechten und libensgetreuen Porträts ausgezeichneter Generäle und Seehelden, nach Originalgemälden von Alonzo Chappel. ... Subscriptions-Bedingungen
Description: Duyckinck's National history of the war for the Union was published in 78 parts from 1861 to 1866, and in German beginning in 1863., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Johnson, Fry & Co.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Johnson (2)5786.F.110d (McAllister)

Title: Geschichte des Krieges für die Union. Von Evert A. Duychinck Deutsch bearbeitet von Freidrich Kapp. Mit vortrefflichen Stahlstichen, Originalbildern von Schlachten und Seegefechten und libensgetreuen Porträts ausgezeichneter Generäle und Seehelden, nach Originalgemälden von Alonzo Chappel. ... Subscriptions-Bedingungen
Description: Duyckinck's National history of the war for the Union was published in 78 parts from 1861 to 1866, and in German beginning in 1863., Printed on yellow paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Johnson, Fry & Co.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Johnson (2)5786.F.110d (McAllister)

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