Item #88407 Of the Birth and Death of Nations. A Thought for the Crisis. James McKaye.

Of the Birth and Death of Nations. A Thought for the Crisis.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1862. Paperback. 33p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume) No separate wrapper present. 19 cm. Horizontal crease. McKaye, an immensely successful Northern lawyer and businessman and later a member of the Lincoln Administration's American Freedman's Inquiry Commission in 1864, argued: (1) that war was a great evil which could be justified only the basis that the war would destroy a still greater evil; and (2) that slavery, the cause of the Civil War, was indeed a greater evil which needed to be destroyed. Good. Item #88407

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