1866 Book "The Lost Cause" Owed by R.L.Brown VA General Assembly 1857-58 READ!

Description: Original by subscription only 1866 edition ( rebound I think) of the Lost Cause.A.P.(Pollard) noted the buyer and time was inscribed. Signed by: R.L. Brown the owner who was a Virginia General Assembly member who later moved to Galena IL. The University of Virginia purchased ( see photo of the letters content as they would not allow me photos of the real letters apparently after several requests) from a sale from Tim Bakken of IL. in 1991. I got the book. I will send the computer printout of the content of the letters with the book. Mr Brown wrote in one of the letters: Your last kind favor has just been received--by some strange [fortuity] the letter was sent to the dead letter office and I accidently saw it among the list of dead letters advertised! This accounts for my not having answered it sooner. Since I last saw you, the political revolution has advanced a pace. This poor city is now a fortified camp--United States Soldiers are arriving by every Northern train and the prospect now is that by the 4th of March we will be taken care of in a horn . 1 At every turn you are saluted by trains of flying artillery, and Genl Scott 2 has now no less that three heavy trains of that arm of the service, to say nothing of the Mounted Dragoons and Infantry--in all some 1000 regular troops. Six thousand of the Militia are being daily drilled by U. S. Officers and supplied with U. States Rifles 3 and other improved firearms. We are fast drifting to a military despotism, and this City--the neutral soil of the Republic, is to be the scene of the initiation of such a damnable dynasty. The Peace Congress meets here today--Their action will result in evil and that only, in inducing the border slave states to temporize and delay until Lincoln obtains the reins of government and binds them hand and foot so completely, as to shut out all hope of their extrication, except it be through oceans of blood. Rather than take such an alternative I believe Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Delaware will ignominiously succumb, and agree to sacrifice the institution of Slavery. The Cotton States with North Carolina and Tennessee will form a Southern Confederacy and maintain it at all hazards and to the last extremity, and I trust in God that success may crown their efforts. They are the last hope for a constitutional Republic on this Continent--the Northern States have no proper idea of such a government, and can only appreciate the government of brute numbers and force. Genl. Scott is now virtually President and Commander in Chief, and is carrying things with a high hand. It requires no Prophet to foresee the end. I despair of my Country." Brown, a pro-Southern advocate, predicts the creation of a Southern Confederacy but maintains that Virginia and four other border slave states will be held in the Union and forced to abolish slavery. He denounces General Scott as a dictator, says Washington is under martial rule, and anticipates the failure of the Washington Peace Conference (February 4-27, 1861). Brown also discusses his willingness to engage in any type of profitable business with the judge, mentions the pending graduation of his son from medical school and asks the judge's assistance in helping him to establish a practice" RARE piece of history in excellent shape owned by someone/signed who was involved in the setting for the war.

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