PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE THIRTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
1861 · Nashvill
by [Tennessee Laws]
Nashvill: E.G. Eastman & Co., 1861. viii,127pp. plus large folding table. Contemporary half legal buckram and plain paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Binding worn, front board and front free endpaper detached. Light foxing, but internally rather clean. Good. A rare Tennessee Confederate imprint. In this special session, Tennessee agrees to send delegates to the Secession Convention in Montgomery. Includes a law for raising a provisional force, also an act to consider the Constitution of the Confederate States. Also prints Gov. Harris's message of Jan. 7, 1861, denouncing the North's "systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question," and its "actual and threatened aggressions." This Eastman imprint is considerably rarer than the Griffith publication of the same session. OCLC records just eleven copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4129. ALLEN 5345. OCLC 10721116 (Inventory #: WRCAM53652)