THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787
- New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 162 Nassau St., 1865
New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 162 Nassau St., 1865. Vol. III, No. 4. Complete in original printed wrappers. Pages [145]-192, as issued. Light scattered foxing, stitched and untrimmed, one closed tear without loss. Very Good.
[with] DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. Broadside, 6" x 7-5/8," tipped in, irrelevant printed verbiage on verso, asserting that Lincoln's assassination "cannot fail to fill every heart with horror and alarm. An assassin is justly held to be the foe of mankind, and every man is interested in his detection and punishment. . . But - "Booth, if he were the assassin, cannot be accused of devotion to 'the slave power', which abolition regards as its mortal enemy. He probably never owned a negro, never wished to, and may be regarded as far more of a northern than a southern man." Two columns separated by mourning rule. Very Good.
"A sibilatious Copperhead sheet unceasingly sheathing secession and shearing Lincoln. Hiss! Hiss!!" [Eberstadt]. Articles oppose the War and consider Slavery the inevitable and natural condition of Negroes. Its purported mourning of President Lincoln was doubtless hypocrisy, and his effort to attach Booth to the North absurd.
"A very violent Copperhead magazine" [Anderson Galleries, 1916]. "The Old Guard defended slavery and the right of secession, attacked President Lincoln violently in every number, and urged the cessation of the war. It was, it claimed, 'the only magazine published in the United States which is devoted to the fearless and uncompromising exposure of the monstrous crimes and frauds of the party in power'." [Mott].
Van Evrie, Horton & Company, the New York publisher, was notorious for its printing of anti-Lincoln, pro-Slavery material during the War, bitterly opposing the Emancipation Proclamation, hostile to rights for Negroes, and active antagonists of Republican Reconstruction.
'The Old Guard' was a sharp thorn in Lincoln's side during much of the War. It published erratically in 1862, the victim of the Government's crackdown on the press. But it re-emerged in 1863.
163 Eberstadt 153. Mott 545-546. Sabin 57133. Not in Lomazow, LCP, Bartlett.
[with] DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. Broadside, 6" x 7-5/8," tipped in, irrelevant printed verbiage on verso, asserting that Lincoln's assassination "cannot fail to fill every heart with horror and alarm. An assassin is justly held to be the foe of mankind, and every man is interested in his detection and punishment. . . But - "Booth, if he were the assassin, cannot be accused of devotion to 'the slave power', which abolition regards as its mortal enemy. He probably never owned a negro, never wished to, and may be regarded as far more of a northern than a southern man." Two columns separated by mourning rule. Very Good.
"A sibilatious Copperhead sheet unceasingly sheathing secession and shearing Lincoln. Hiss! Hiss!!" [Eberstadt]. Articles oppose the War and consider Slavery the inevitable and natural condition of Negroes. Its purported mourning of President Lincoln was doubtless hypocrisy, and his effort to attach Booth to the North absurd.
"A very violent Copperhead magazine" [Anderson Galleries, 1916]. "The Old Guard defended slavery and the right of secession, attacked President Lincoln violently in every number, and urged the cessation of the war. It was, it claimed, 'the only magazine published in the United States which is devoted to the fearless and uncompromising exposure of the monstrous crimes and frauds of the party in power'." [Mott].
Van Evrie, Horton & Company, the New York publisher, was notorious for its printing of anti-Lincoln, pro-Slavery material during the War, bitterly opposing the Emancipation Proclamation, hostile to rights for Negroes, and active antagonists of Republican Reconstruction.
'The Old Guard' was a sharp thorn in Lincoln's side during much of the War. It published erratically in 1862, the victim of the Government's crackdown on the press. But it re-emerged in 1863.
163 Eberstadt 153. Mott 545-546. Sabin 57133. Not in Lomazow, LCP, Bartlett.
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Title
THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787
Author
Burr, C. Chauncy [editor]
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 162 Nassau St.: New York
Date
1865