[RECONSTRUCTION]. A group of 27 pamphlets related to politics, finance, and policy in the post-war South, especially Louisiana, comprising:

Reconstruction. A letter from Geo. M. Weston. Bangor, ME: 25 June 1866. RARE: No known copies. -- Speeches of Hon. Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin; Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury; Letter of Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois; and An Address by a Member of the Club; Also The Condition of the South; A Report of Special Commissioner B.F. Truman. Washington, DC: Daily National Republican Print, 1866. RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy. -- Inaugural Address and Message No. 1 of Robert K. Scott, Governor of South Carolina, to the General Assembly, First Session, Held at the City of Columbia, July 9, 1868. Columbia, SC: Denny & Perry, 1868 (creasing, some small holes to cover, spotting throughout, edge and corner loss). RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy.

[With:] FERGUSON, J.B., Tennessee. Nationality and Sectionalism. An Estimate of the Political Crisis, The Policy of the President, and the Anamalous Legislation of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, With an Appeal to the People on the Duties and Dangers of the Hour. Washington: McGill & Witherow, 1866. Sabin 24095. -- Speech of Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan, on the Joint Resolution For the Recognition and Readmission to the Union of Louisiana. Washington: Towers Print, 1865. RARE: OCLC locates only 4 copies. -- Letter of H.C. Warmouth, Claimant of a Seat in the House of Representatives, as Delegate from the Territory of Louisiana, Addressed to Senator Williams, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Reconstruction for Louisiana. Washington: McGille & Witherow, 1866 (loss top top right edge and corner of cover). -- FESSENDEN, William. Final Report of the Congressional Committee upon the Question of Reconstruction. December 1865. -- Speech of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, on the Questions Connected with the Condition of the Country, Delivered at Towsontown, Baltimore County, Md., On Saturday, November 3d, 1866. Baltimore: Printing Office, Sun Iron Building, 1866. -- The Dangers and Duties of the Hour; An Address Delivered at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, March 15, 1866, by Hon. Wm. D. Kelley. Washington: Chronicle Book and Job Print, 1866. -- Congress and the President. The Political Problem of 1866. Speech of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, Delivered at Mechanics' Hall, Utica, September 13, 1866. Utica, NY: Roberts, 1866. -- WRIGHT, John S., Illinois. Reply to Hon. Charles G. Loring, Upon "Reconstruction." Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1867. Sabin 105613. -- Argument of Hon. Lyman Trumbull in the Supreme Court of the United States, March 4, 1868, in the Matter of Ex Parle William H. McCardle, Appellant. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. --

[With:] The Status of the Rebel States. The Powers and Duty of Congress. Speech of Hon. Aaron F. Stevens, of New Hampshire. Washington: Chronicle Print, 1868. -- Reconstruction. Speeches of Hon. G.W. Scofield, of Penn., and Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio. Washington: Office of the Great Republic, 1868. -- Plain Language of Independent Republican Senators. Thieving and Profligacy Exposed! Speeches of Senators Schurz, Tipton, Logan, Sumner and Trumbull. 1871. RARE: OCLC locates only 6 copies. -- The Nation and Louisiana. Speech of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, in the Senate of the United States, January 28 and 29, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. -- Self-Government in Louisiana. Speech of Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, January 13 and 14, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. -- Bayonet-Government in Louisiana. Speech of Hon. A.G. Thurman, of Ohio, in the United States Senate, January 27, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. -- Dispersion of the Louisiana Legislature and the General Condition of the Southern States. Speech of Hon. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, in the United States Senate, January 29, 1875. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. RARE: OCLC locates only 3 copies. -- Memorial of the Conservative Members of the Legislature of Louisiana, giving a statement of the revolutionary proceedings in the hall of the house of representatives, of New Orleans, January 4, 1875. RARE: OCLC locates only 3 copies.

[With:] Letters of Mr. William E. Chandler Relative to the So-Called Southern Policy of President Hayes, with an Appendix Reviewing the Admissions of the Louisiana Bargainers, Together with a letter to Mr. Chandler of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison. Washington: Gibson Brothers, 1878. -- Address Delivered before the South Carolina Historical Society on their Twenty-Second Anniversary, May 25, 1877, by J.J. Pringle Smith Esq., a Member. Charleston, SC: Lucas & Richardson, 1879. -- The Overshadowing Issue! The True "Inwardness" of the "Solid South!" An Open Letter from Hon. Jay A. Hubbell, Chairman Republican Congressional Committee, to the Electors of the Ninth Congressional District of Michigan. Washington: 1880. RARE: OCLC locates only 7 copies. -- LILLEY, Robert D. Centennial Organization for the Better Endowment of Washington & Lee University. New York: Eve's Post Job Printing, 1882. RARE: OCLC locates only 7 copies. -- The Life and Services of Ex-Governor Charles Jones Jenkins. A Memorial Address by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. LLD. Atlanta, GA: Jas. P. Harrison & Co., 1884. -- ECKENRODE, Hamilton James. The Political History of Virginia During the Reconstruction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1904. -- In Memoriam Sempiternam. Richmond, VA: Confederate Museum, 1896. -- Together, 27 items, in generally good condition, with expected wear.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston