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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Military and Naval Situation
William Swinton
Full title: The military and naval situation : and the glorious achievements of our soldiers and sailors
1864
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
