Pamphlet Collection

This is a collection of paper-covered print publications in Special Collections at the Cedarville University Centennial Library. The collection encompasses a variety of materials, including booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, tracts, government documents, speeches, sermons, etc.

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Rebel Conditions of Peace and The Mechanics of the South

Rebel Conditions of Peace is reprinted from The Richmond Enquirer of October 16, 1863.

The Loyal Publication Society was founded in 1863, during a time when the Union Army had suffered many reverses in the Civil War. The purpose of the society was to bolster public support for the Union effort, by disseminating pro-Union news articles and editorials to newspapers around the country.

1863
Separation: War Without End

Edouard Laboulaye

Full title: Separation: war without end : Upon whom rests the guilt of the war?

This pamphlet begins with a letter by James McKaye titled "National Unity: It Must Not Be Surrendered", reprinted from the New York Evening Post.

1863
The Arguments of Secessionists

Francis Lieber

Full title: The arguments of secessionists : a letter to the Union Meeting, held in New York, September 30, 1863

Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800-1872) was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He was the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War, also known as Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863), considered to be the first document to comprehensively outline rules regulating the conduct of war, which laid the foundation for the Geneva Conventions.

1863
The First Duty of the Citizen; The Grandeur of the Struggle and Its Responsibilities; Southern Principles

Unknown authors

This is a compilation of several different documents. In addition to the three in the title, the compilation includes Emancipation a Finality, Mottoes for Loyal Men, and a rebuttal to Southern Principles, which was originally printed in the Richmond Examiner of May 28, 1863.

1863
The Mistakes of the Rebellion

Alexander H. Vinton

Full title: The mistakes of the rebellion : a sermon preached on the National Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1863, by Alexander H. Vinton

1863
The Preservation of the Union: A National Economic Necessity

Unknown author

The Loyal Publication Society was founded in 1863, during a time when the Union Army had suffered many reverses in the Civil War. The purpose of the society was to bolster public support for the Union effort, by disseminating pro-Union news articles and editorials to newspapers around the country.

October 1863
War Power of the President

J. Heermans

The Loyal Publication Society was founded in 1863, during a time when the Union Army had suffered many reverses in the Civil War. The purpose of the society was to bolster public support for the Union effort, by disseminating pro-Union news articles and editorials to newspapers around the country.

1863
A Brief History of the Cruelties and Atrocities of the Rebellion

Thomas L. Wilson

Full title: A brief history of the cruelties and atrocities of the rebellion. compiled from the most authentic sources, by Thos. L. Wilson

1864
A Discourse in Commemoration of Colonel Frank Henry Peck

Elisha Lord Cleaveland

Full title: A discourse in commemoration of Colonel Frank Henry Peck: delivered at his funeral in the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, October 7, 1864

1864
Can the Country Pay the Expenses of the War?

Henry G. Stebbins

Full title: Can the country pay the expenses of the war? speech of Henry G. Stebbins, of New York. delivered in the House of Representatives, March 4, 1864

1864
God's View of Rebellion

Howard Crosby

Full title: God's view of rebellion : a sermon preached in the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church on the occasion of the National Thanksgiving, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1864, by Howard Crosby

1864
Official Army Register for 1864

Published by order of the Secretary of War, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 13, 1815, and resolutions of the House of Representatives dated February 1, 1830, and August 30, 1842.

1864
Oration Delivered Before the City Authorities of Boston

Thomas Russell

Full title: Oration delivered before the city authorities of Boston on the Fourth of July, 1864, by Thomas Russell

1864
Our Country and Its Cause

Samuel T. Spear

Full title: Our country and its cause. A discourse preached October 2d, 1864 in the South Presbyterian church, of Brooklyn

1864
Resources of the United States

Samuel B. Ruggles

Full title: Resources of the United States. Report to the International statistical congress at Berlin, by Samuel B. Ruggles

1864
The Assertions of a Secessionist

Alexander H. Stephens

Full title: The assertions of a secessionist. From the speech of A.H. Stephens, of Georgia, November 14th, 1860.

1864
The Military and Naval Situation

William Swinton

Full title: The military and naval situation : and the glorious achievements of our soldiers and sailors

1864
The Sacrifice of Continual Praise

Cornelius L. Wells

Full title: The sacrifice of continual praise : a sermon preached in the Reformed Dutch Church, Flatbush, L.I., on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 24, 1864. By Cornelius L. Wells

1864
Women's Patriotic Association for Diminishing the Use of Imported Luxuries

The Women's Patriotic Association for Diminishing the Use of Imported Luxuries was organized on May 16, 1864.

1864
Reconstruction: A Letter to President Johnson

Count de Gasparin

Full title: Reconstruction : A letter to President Johnson. by Count A. de Gasparin. Translated by Mary L. Booth

1865
Sermon on the Seven Pillars of the Baptists

Frederic Denison

Full title: Sermon on the seven pillars of the Baptists : preached to the Baptist Church, Westerly, R.I., June 23, 1867

1867
To the Republican Voters of the Nineteenth District

James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was a member of the House of Representatives from 1863-1880. A lawyer and Civil War general, he served nine terms in the House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president.

1873
Report of the Committee on Outrages in Mississippi

This is a report of the Senate committee which investigated the Mississippi race riots of November 1875.

1876?
Gospel Temperance

John Martin Van Buren

Publishing agent's statement: "This Work is intended to supply the felt necessity for an authoritative law on the subject of Temperance."

The full statement may be read by opening the Additional File.

1877
Facts and Songs for the People

Full title: Facts and songs for the people : prepared specially for use in the Blaine and Logan campaign

1884