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

## Indianapolis, 1863 [As a means of building lagging morale, Union supporters in cities throughout the North upon occasion held great mass meetings. These functioned as a wartime counterpart not only to the political rallies, but perhaps even the revivals, of peacetime. Many of the largest mass meetings were held in Eastern cities like New York, but they were effective also in the Middle West. In this era when the size of the audience was limited to the unamplified range of the human voice, no one speaker could make himself audible to the huge crowds. Consequently several orators at once would speak from different bunting-decked stands, or in various assembly halls. Patriotic poets would make their way from one stand to another, to fill interludes with their doggerel. The proceedings were solemnly recorded and often later appeared in pamphlet form. This pamphlet reporting the meeting at Indianapolis on February 26, 1863, is particularly interesting because Indiana was a state which had been carried by the Democrats in the previous election and anti-war sentiment was strong there. Also it is notable that the main speaker was Andrew Johnson, for the moment a hero to the Radical Republicans, who came to regard him so differently after he became President a little more than three years later. Johnson (1808-1875), a Democrat and the spokesman for small farmers of the South, had been governor of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857 when he entered the United States Senate. Among all the Southern senators, he alone remained in the Senate when his state seceded, and became active along with Radical Republicans on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Early in 1862, President Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee, the position he held when he participated in the Indianapolis mass meeting. General Samuel Fenton Carey , long a temperance lecturer, was a successful army recruiter during the Civil War. In 1868 he was the only Republican member of the House of Representatives to vote against President Johnson's impeachment. The poet at this rally, Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872), was ## UNION PAMPHLETS The throne of Grace was addressed by Bishop Ε. R. Ames, of the Μ. E. Church. On motion of Hon. H. C. Newcomb a committee of one from each Congressional District on resolutions was appointed as follows: COMMITTEES ON RESOLUTIONS. CONTENTS Pamphlet 23. The Great Union Meeting. Held at Indianapolis, February 26th, 1863. Speeches of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Gen. Samuel F. Carey, of Ohio, and Others Pamphlet 24. Copperheads Under the Heel of an Illinois Farmer Pamphlet 25. Robert Dale Owen, The Future of the North-West: In Connection with the Scheme of Reconstruction without New England . . . New York, 1863 Pamphlet 26. Edward N. Crosby and S. F. B. Morse, The Letter of a Republican . . . and Prof. Morse's Reply . . . New York, 1863 Pamphlet 27. [Henry Carey Baird], General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers. Philadelphia, 1863 Pamphlet 28. John H. Hopkins], Bible View of Slavery. New York, 1863 Pamphlet 29. To Churchmen. New York, 1863 Pamphlet 30. Clement Laird Vallandigham, The Great Civil War in America. New York, [1863] Pamphlet 31. Abraham Lincoln, The Truth from an Honest Man. Philadelphia, 1863 Pamphlet 32. John V. L. Pruyn, et al., Reply to President Lincoln's Letter . . . New York, 1863 Pamphlet 33. A Few Words in Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States by One of Themselves. (Loyal Publication Society No. 10) New York, 1863 Pamphlet 34. The Draft, or, Conscription Reviewed by the People. Providence, 1863 Pamphlet 35. Daniel O'Connell, Daniel O'Connell and the Committee of the Irish Repeal Association of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, 1863 Pamphlet 36. Rebel Conditions of Peace and the Mechanics of the South. New York, 1863 Pamphlet 37. Charles Sumner, Our Domestic Relations: or, How to Treat the Rebel States. Boston, 1863 Pamphlet 38. Charles Godfrey Leland and Henry P. Leland, Ye Book of Copperheads. Philadelphia, 1863 Pamphlet 39. George Franklin Comstock, “Let Us Reason Together.” New York, 1864 Pamphlet 40. Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia, 1864 Pamphlet 41. James Russell Lowell, The President's Policy. Philadelphia, 1864 Pamphlet 42. David Ames Wells, Our Burden and Our Strength, or, A Comprehensive and Popular Examination of the Debt and Resources of Our Country, Present and Prospective. (Loyal Publication Society No. 54) New York, 1864 Pamphlet 43. Timothy Shay Arthur, Growlers Income Tax. (Loyal Publication Society, No. 57) New York, 1864 Pamphlet 44. The Lincoln Catechism, Wherein the Eccentricities 6- Beauties of Despotism Are Fully Set Forth. A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864. New York, 1864 Pamphlet 45. The Great Surrender to the Rebels in Arms. The Armistice. Washington, 1864 Pamphlet 46. A Few Plain Words with the Rank and File of the Union Armies. Washington, 1864 Pamphlet 47. [U.S. Bureau of Military Justice], Report of the Judge Advocate General, on the “Order of American Knights,” or “Sons of Liberty.” A Western Conspiracy in Aid of the Southern Rebellion. Washington, 1864 Pamphlet 48. Robert Charles Winthrop, Great Speech of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, at New London, Conn., October 18. The Principles and Interests of the Republican Party Against the Union. The Election of McClellan the Only Hope for Union and Peace. (Campaign Document No. 23) New York, 1864 Pamphlet 49. George Hunt Pendleton, Hear Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton. New York?, 1864 Pamphlet 50. Francis Lieber, Lincoln or McClellan. Appeal to the Germans in America. New York, 1864 Pamphlet 51. Charles Astor Bristed, The Cowards' Convention. New York, 1864 Pamphlet 52. Joseph Parrish Thompson, Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons. New York, 1865 INDEX