A very rare item; the entire year of True Democratic Banner, an influential weekly issued in Morristown, New Jersey. Measuring a full 18 x 24 inches, this entire year contains incredible content. Each issue has value, and thus, increasingly, complete years are very difficult to obtain, having long ago been parted for individual issues.
[Civil War, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln]. True Democratic Banner. Morristown, New Jersey. January to December, 1861 [51 Issues]. 1861. 204pp.
Contents include:
A Southerner Attempts to Elope with a Young Miss | Special Message from the President to South Carolina | A French View of Secession | Pensive Lengthy Article Contemplating whether Abraham Lincoln is Up to the Task [January, 1861] | Report from the South Carolina Convention | The Probable Strength of a Southern Navy | Fort Sumpter Besieged | Late Secession News – First Gun Fired | Sailing of Troops from New York } Union Rising in Texas | A Man of Nerve by Hawser Martingale | The Coming Free Republic of Cotton | An Arms Manufacturer Burnt | Romance of the Mexican War | The South and the Union | South Carolina’s Ultimatum | Proposed Division of the State of Texas The Confederate Crisis and its Cure | Facts and Rumors of the Southern Confederacy | The Union Party in Charleston | Movements of Mr. Lincoln | He is a Douglas Man | Kansas Relief | Hydrophobia | A Disunion Flag | The Union is on Fire | The Militia of the Morris Brigade | Indian Outrages in Texas | Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln [March 7, 2024] | The Power of Woman | The Soldier’s Story | A City Father Supplying Gunboats to the Traitors | Address of General Theo. Runyon – President of the New Jersey Military Association | The Suffering in Kansas | Schemes of the Rebels in Virginia | A Tale of the Revolution | An Old Sailor’s Apostrophe to the Flag of Our Union | We have Met the Enemy and Spanked them Severely | Lynching at the South | Glorious Defense of Fort Sumter – Every Man a Hero | Feeling in Missouri | Armory at Harper’s Ferry | Up with the Flag! | Mark the Traitors | Experience of a Secessionist | An Indignant Wife on Secession | Counsel to Volunteers | The Traitor’s Congress | What is Martial Law? | Jefferson Davis Confuted by Pinckney & Rutledge | Suggestions of an Old Soldier | The Gaeta of the South | The Secession Rascals | The Morris Brigade | The Men who Fell in Baltimore | A String of War Wit | New Testaments for the Troops | The Theory of Secession | What the Rebels have Taken | Edward Everetton on the War | Virginia Invaded – Colonel Ellsworth Shot – His Assassin Killed | Slaves Contraband of War | How to Get Fort Pickens | An Avowed Secessionist Shot | What to do with the Slaves | Secession Tactics | Disease vs. Bullets | Obituary of Stephen Arnold Douglas | Reports from Harper’s Ferry | Union Feeling in California | Second Attack on Aquia Creek | The Right of Self Defence | History of our Flag | Pay and Pensions of Our Volunteers | Slave Terrorism | The Hypocrisy of Treason | A Glimpse of Indian Warfare | Extraordinary Attempt at Murder in Westfield | A Military Pig | The Great Bethel Fight | Capture of a Slaver | The March of the Foot-Soldier – A Dissertation on Shoes | A Southern Reign of Terror | The Declaration of Independence | A Southern Authoress for the Union | Who are Secessionists | The President’s Message – Full, July 4, 1861 | A Letter from Peter Cartwright | The Story of a Mormon Woman – Effects of Polygamy | A Rebel Message | Tremendous Battle at Bull Run | The Dead on a Battle Field | A Soldiers’ Emotion in Battle | Treason among the Indians | Fighting on the Sabbath | The Re-Enlistment Bonus | War Horses | The Peace Movement | Conditions of the South | P. T. Barnum – His Whales and How he got Them | Panics on the Battle Field | Secret Societies | Andrew Jackson on Secession | Yellow Fever at Quarantine | The Mortality of the Coal Mines | Another Pirate Captured | Oration Delivered by Jacob Vanatta before the Society of the Son’s of Liberty | The Torries of 1776 and 1861 | An Execution in Illinois | Horrors of the Middle Passage | Confirmation of the Death of Jefferson Davis [false, of course] | How to Cure Cancer | The Secret Conspiracy | Union Men of the South | Commodore John Percival | True Prayers Never Lost by Theodore L. Cuyler | No White Feather | Kentucky to be Subjugated | The Judicial Murder | The Privateer Sumter at Trinidad | The Writ of Habeas Corpus | Session of the Cherokees | The First Rocket | 8000 Cherokees Faithful | Modern Duel and Duellists | Murder of a Missionary and His Wife by Savages at Erromanga | Camp Life – An Enemy within the Soldiers’ Tents [Rum] | Poisoning at a Camp Meeting | The Knights of the Golden Circle Surprised | Peter Cartwright and Abraham Lincoln | Women at an Auction Sale | War Wit | The Abolition Element | Causes of Thanksgiving – A Sermon by John Scarlett | A Stupid Traitor &c.
Generally sound, no binding, remains of binding to spine. Textually good with expected handling, occasional closed tears, and a few repairs etc,. paper remains in good order generally. Not originally bound with April 18.