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Catalog Number |
II.6.077 |
Collection |
Publications Committee |
Object Name |
Pamphlet |
Title |
The Loyalty Demanded by the Present Crisis |
Author |
Cooper, Jacob |
Summary |
Representing himself as a firm Kentucky Union man, Cooper examined the ambivalence of loyal slave holding Kentuckians who believed in gradual emancipation and resented Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. He also projected a program for freedmen as necessary for the transformation of degraded blacks prior to the conclusion of the war. He chastised Southern ideologists (whom he accused of perverting Constitutional law by bending it to fit their secessionist views) and Northern "birds of ill omen" Copperheads and Peace Democrats who "true to their native instincts fly toward the South." First UL edition contained Lincoln's letter to Albert Gallatin Hodges of Frankford, KY, April 4, 1864, reprinted from the Frankfort "Commonwealth" of which Hodges was editor. See also II.6.079. |
Physical Description |
24 pp. |
Copy# |
1 |
Publisher |
Henry B. Ashmead |
Published Date |
May 1864 |
Condition Notes |
Back cover missing. |
Notes |
Minutebook, May 19, 1864. A digitized copy of this pamphlet is available through HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/). |