Speech of the Hon. Montgomery Blair postmaster general, on the revolutionary schemes of the ultra abolitionists, and in defence of the policy of the President : delivered at the unconditional Union meeting, held at Rockville, Montgomery Co., Maryland, on Saturday, October 3, 1863

Montgomery Blair

New York : D.W. Lee, printer, 1863

Original wrap. Minor soiling to rear wrap, ruffling to center of front wrap. Small tear to head of spine. Bookplate of Robert B. Davis. Crisp, and clean internally. Blair warns of "ultra-Abolitionists", who "seek to make a caste of another color by amalgamating the black element with the free white labor of our land, and so to expand far beyond the present confines of slavery the evil which makes it obnoxious to republican statesmen." Their policies would create "a hybrid race", an "unnatural combination" if ever there was one. Additionally he refuted the 'State Suicide' theory, which held that the rebel States were "annihilated by the rebellion" and thus subject to the "absolute authority" of Congress. LCP 1262. Monaghan 173.