THAYER, M. Russell.

Reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a Friend in a Slave State.

Item #79797

THAYER, M. Russell. A Reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's "Letter to a Friend in a Slave State." Phila.: John Campbell, 1862. 1st ed. 26pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers just starting, two spots of erasure at head of front wrapper, else very good. Charles Ingersoll, a former Pennsylvania Congressman, criticized the Union effort in his 1862 "Letter to a Friend in a Slave State," and called for compromise and reconciliation with the South. Thayer, a Philadelphia lawyer, argues against Ingersoll's call for compromise and insists that the country will only be reunified after the military defeat of the Confederacy.

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