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Title: Who is responsible for the war? Who accountable for its horrors and desolations? Extracts from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (new vice-president of the Confederate States), delivered in the secession convention of Georgia, on the 31st day of January, 1861: ... Who commenced the war?
Description: Printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Stephens 5793.F.45a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia, April 15, 1861. To the president of the United States The unparalleled event of the past week has revealed to the citizens of the United States, beyond question or possibility of doubt, that a peaceful reconciliation under the form of our Constitution, is repelled and scorned, and that secession means, in the hearts of its supporters, both treason and war against our country and nation. We, therefore, the undersigned, loyal citizens of the United States and inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, responding to the proclamation of the president of the United States, hereby declare our unalterable determination to sustain the government in its efforts to maintain the honor, the integrity and the existence of our national union
Description: Signed: Hor. Binney [and 67 others]., 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 Phila 5793.F.48a (McAllister)

Title: Secession has produced a wonderful change in the price of goods Great slaughter anticipated! "Watchword, give nor ask any quarters" Spruance & Megear are in the field with a terrible array of dry goods foreign and domestic. Notions, fancy goods, staples, boots, shoes, hats and caps, groceries, queensware and cutlery of every style and quality, etc., etc., right from Philadelphia, with the following inscription on their banner--"Extermination against all high prices and undue profits." To the public generally who wish to buy goods, we make the following proclamation: Being armed and equipped with such a stock of goods as cannot fail to strike the beholder with amazement ... we are determined to repulse if not entirely vanquish the great system of montrous prices and murderous profits ... Our facilities for purchasing goods in the East, gives us the advantage of the second handling from the manufacturer, instead of the third and fourth, thereby protecting our customers against the necessity of paying an extra tariff ... All kinds of country produce taken in exchange for goods. Smyrna, Del., April, 1861
Description: Text printed in red, and illustrations and their captions printed in black., Two large illustrations: the first, signed Elton, shows crowds rushing into a store; the second shows a man on an airship pulling nine more people; sixteen other smaller illustrations, mostly cartoons, surround the text., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Spruance & Meager
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 Spruance (5)5777.F.50a (McAllister)

Title: Attention, Union men! Secession has produced a wonderful change in the price of goods Great slaughter anticipated! "Watchword, give nor ask any quarters" P. & C. Templeton are in the field with a terrible array of dry goods foreign and domestic. Notions, fancy goods, staples, clothing, boots, shoes, hats and caps, groceries, queensware and cutlery of every style and quality, etc., etc., right from Philadelphia, with the following inscription on their banner--"Extermination against all high prices and undue profits." To the public generally who wish to buy goods, we make the following proclamation: Being armed and equipped with such a stock of goods as cannot fail to strike the beholder with amazement ... we are determined to repulse if not entirely vanquish the great system of montrous prices and murderous profits ... Our facilities for purchasing goods in the East, gives us the advantage of the second handling from the manufacturer, instead of the third and fourth, thereby protecting our customers against the necessity of paying an extra tariff ... All kinds of country produce taken in exchange for goods. 20,000 lbs. of wool wanted, for which the highest cash price will be paid. Brady's Bend, Pa., May, 1861
Description: Text printed in red, and illustrations and their captions printed in black., Two large illustrations: the first, signed Elton, shows crowds rushing into a store; the second shows a man on an airship pulling nine more people; sixteen other smaller illustrations, mostly cartoons, surround the text., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: P. & C. Templeton
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 P & C Temp (5)5777.F.57 (McAllister)

Title: Attention Union men! Secession has produced a wonderful change in the price of goods Great slaughter anticipated! "Watchword, give nor ask any quarters" S.C. & L. Fox are in the field with a terrible array of dry goods foreign and domestic. Notions, fancy goods, staples, clothing, boots, shoes, hats and caps, groceries, queensware and cutlery of every style and quality, etc., etc., right from Philadelphia and Baltimore, with the following inscription on their banner--"Extermination against all high prices and undue profits." To the public generally who wish to buy goods, we make the following proclamation: Being armed and equipped with such a stock of goods as cannot fail to strike the beholder with amazement ... we are determined to repulse if not entirely vanquish the great system of montrous prices and murderous profits ... Our facilities for purchasing goods in the East, gives us the advantage of the second handling from the manufacturer, instead of the third and fourth, thereby protecting our customers against the necessity of paying an extra tariff ... All kinds of country produce taken in exchange for goods. Sandy Creek, May 1st, 1861
Description: Text printed in red, and illustrations and their captions printed in black., Two large illustrations: the first, signed Elton, shows crowds rushing into a store; the second shows a man on an airship pulling nine more people; sixteen other smaller illustrations, mostly cartoons, surround the text., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: S.C. & L. Fox
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 S C & L Fox (5)5777.F.55 (McAllister)

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