Lot 421
[General Beauregard's Secession Document], Declarations of the Immediate Cause which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession, Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860, Charleston, first issue, with misprinted 'Cause' for 'Causes', 13 pgs, together with The Louisiana State Lottery, A Card from the Generals Beauregard & Early to the Public, published by L.Graham, New Orleans, 1879, 6 pages. Note: The Secession Ordinance voted on by the South Carolina delegation was one of the first official statements of Civil War in America, thus this pamphlet one of the first printed documents of the rebellion. General P.G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893, New Orleans) was one of the most successful Confederate generals. After the war he was President of the New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi Railway and Supervisor, with General Jubal Early, of the Louisiana Lottery. The pamphlet noted here was their rebuttal to the widespread allegations of the lottery's corruption. Provenance: Acquired in the 19th c. from Beauregard's estate by a New Orleans antiquarian. Descended in the family to the present owner.
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