Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865: Volume I: Freidel, Frank: Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Volume I

army into a bloody disaster at Fredericksburg in December, 1862. Twice that winter J. Ε. B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry rode around the Army of the Potomac. A committee of Republican Senators visited President Lincoln to try to force reorganization of the cabinet, and perhaps wrest policy-making from him. It required all Lincoln's political skill to parry them. The Republican gentlemen founding the first of the Union Leagues in Philadelphia were so cautious in that overwhelmingly Democratic city that their invitations to the meeting to establish the League declared merely that there would be an assemblage of loyal men for a patriotic purpose. What that purpose might be was left to conjecture, and there was no signature on the notes. 2 The Republican publication societies tried to bolster morale, or in the case of the Democratic one, to capitalize upon the depressed state of opinion, by utilizing techniques long since developed by political campaign organizations, anti-slavery societies, and religious groups. All of these had long engaged in organized production of pamphlets. The American Tract Society, a religious organization, provided the most clear-cut precedent. Established a generation earlier, it continued active during the Civil War, focussing its output upon the Union armies. These tracts, although aimed primarily at winning soldiers' souls, might well as a side-effect influence their votes. Abolitionists denounced as semi-treasonable the political content of an address, "Tracts for Soldiers," that a conservative Bostonian, a former Whig Speaker of the House of Representatives, Robert C. Winthrop delivered in May, 1862, before an anniversary meeting of the American Tract Society. Winthrop's remarks illustrate the intimate and almost inevitable intermingling of theology and ideology in wartime: If there be "a devil in secession," as a fearless Tennessee patriot has recently told us, we all know what is the only power which has ever succeeded in casting out devils. It was not the power of Beelzebub; nor was it the power of man. No military stratagems, no civil statesmanship, no policy of man's device, no wholesale confiscations or emancipations, can reach it. It came of old, and it must come again, from higher than human sources or influences. We must look, in God's good time, for a spirit of reconciliation, breathed forth from the very throne of the Most High, to turn back our hearts to each other ' CONTENTS CONSTITUTION INTRODUCTION A Note on the Texts UNION PAMPHLETS OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 Pamphlet 1. John Lothrop Motley, The Causes of the American Civil War New York, 1861 Pamphlet 2. Joel Parker, The Right of Secession Cambridge, 1861 Pamphlet 3. John Pendleton Kennedy, The Great Drama; An Appeal to Maryland. Baltimore, 1861 Pamphlet 4. Lewis Tappan, The War: Its Cause and Remedy; Immediate Emancipation: The Only Wise and Safe Mode. New York, 1861 Pamphlet 5. John Joseph Hughes, Letter of Archbishop Hughes to Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina Pamphlet 6. Orestes Augustus Brownson, Brownson on the Rebellion. St. Louis, 1861 Pamphlet 7. Matthew Fontaine Maury and John C. Breckinridge, Captain Maury's Letter on American Affairs. Also the Address of Hon. John C. Breckinridge to the People of Kentucky. Baltimore, 1861 Pamphlet 8. Horace Binney, The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution. Philadelphia, 1862 Pamphlet 9. Edward Ingersoll, Personal Liberty and Martial Law: A Review of Some Pamphlets of the Day. Philadelphia, 1862 Pamphlet 10. Wendell Phillips, The War for the Union; A Lecture. New York, 1862 Pamphlet 11. [Mary Abigail Dodge], Tracts for the Times. Courage! New York, 1862 Pamphlet 12. John Stuart Mill, The Contest in America. Boston, 1862 Pamphlet 13. Emma Willard, Via Media: A Peaceful and Permanent Settlement of the Slavery Question. Washington, 1862 Pamphlet 14. Anna Ella Carroll, The Relation of the National Government to Revolted Citizens Defined . . . Washington, 1862 Pamphlet 15. Charles Janeway Stillé, How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History. Philadelphia, 1862 Pamphlet 16. Facts for the People! . . . Indianapolis, 1862 Pamphlet 17. Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Executive Power. Cambridge, 1862 Pamphlet 18. Grosvenor P. Lowrey, The Commander-in-Chief; A Defence upon Legal Grounds of the Proclamation of Emancipation . . . New York, 1863 Pamphlet 19. Edward Everett Hale, The Desert and the Promised Land. A Sermon. Boston, 1863 Pamphlet 20. Henry Whitney Bellows, Unconditional Loyalty. New York, 1863 Pamphlet 21. Samuel Finley Breese Morse et al., The Constitution. Addresses of Prof. Morse, Mr. Geo. Ticknor Curtis, and Mr. S. }. Tilden, at the Organization. New York, 1863 Pamphlet 22. [Ezra Mundy Hunt], About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man. Philadelphia, 1863