Library Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
II.6.012 |
Collection |
Publications Committee |
Object Name |
Pamphlet |
Title |
Our National Constitution: Its Adaptation to a State of War or Insurrection. |
Author |
Agnew, Daniel |
Summary |
The Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation were forcefully upheld in Agnew's legal analysis, which also was concerned with the writ of habeas corpus. On the inside front and final wrapper was an extract from an address touching on Constitutional law by Edward Everett, delivered before the Boston Union Club, April 9, 1863. |
Physical Description |
39 pp. |
Copy# |
1 |
Publisher |
C. Sherman, Son & Co. |
Published Date |
April 1863 |
Edition |
Second |
Condition Notes |
Front cover with title page loose; front cover stained. |
Notes |
Minutebook 4/2/1863 publication in edition of 5000 copies. A second edition so indicated above the printed border before the title. Publications Distribution 36, 48, 89 for Agnew as agent for the committee in Beaver Co., PA. A digitized copy of this pamphlet is available through HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/). |