Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States
Item #82193
STEPHENS, Alexander H. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall. Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1868, 1870. 1st eds. 2 Vols. 654, [1]; 827, [1], [4] pp., frontises., portraits, facs. In later 3/4 morocco with marbled paper over boards; all plates present, but Howes calls for a map not present here. Binding is quite bright. Occasional pencil marginal bracketing. Paper in vol. 1 is heavily toned and discolored throughout else very good. Howes S-938, Howes calls this the "[m]ost elaborate-and best-argument for the constitutional validity of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of secession." Nevins echoes Howes, "An elaborate, legalistic argument to vindicate the South; considerably more pro-Confederate in tone than the author was as Vice-President during the war." - Nevins II, p. 91. In Tall Cotton, 173.
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