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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1121. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, December 14, 1861. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

(London: George C. Leighton, 1861)

400 x 280 mm; magazine, disbound from volume XXXIX, without wraps (as issued), and contained within a film fronted bag; pp. [591-614]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching; one short tear, repaired with archival tape. News in this issue includes the continuing American Civil War with particular focus on the boarding of the British vessel Trent and capture of Confederate commissioners by crew of the Union vessel San Jacinto. Information on the War is brought up to the 30th of November, as reported in New York. The front page shows portraits of the two "Confederate commissioners to England and France seized on board The Trent" and their captor "Captain Wilkes, of the San Jacinto." Further American Civil War illustrations: "Captain Moir, of the Trent" (p. 594), "General M'Clellan, Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Forces" (p. 599, full-page), "The Confederate army - Mississippians passing in review before General Beauregard and staff" (p. 610, full-page), "Torchlight procession of General Blenker's Brigade at Washington in honour of General M'Clellan taking command of the Federal Army" (p. 611, full-page). Excerpts: 'The journals of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, as a general rule, speak much more hesitatingly of the legality of Captain Wilks's act than they did a week previously. … THE POLICY OF EMANCIPATION. On this question Secretary Smith, a member of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, has expressed himself to the effect that the views of Mr. Cameron were not those of the Administration. … PRESIDENT DAVIS'S MESSAGE. President Davis congratulates Congress on the progress of domestic manufactures among them. He speaks moderately of the great deeds of the Confederate army and of the high spirit of patriotism with which they are animated. He says:- A succession of glorious victories at Bethel, Bull Run, Manassas, Springfield, Lexington, Leesburg, and Belmont, has checked the wicked invasion which greed of gain and the unhallowed lust of power brought upon our soil, and has proved that numbers cease to avail when directed against a people fighting for the sacred right of self-government and the privileges of freemen. After seven months of war the enemy have not only failed to extend their occupancy of our soil, but new States and territories have been added to our confederacy; while, instead of their threatened march of unchecked conquest, they have been driven at more than one point to assume the defensive, and, upon a fair comparison between the two belligerents as to men, military means, and financial condition the Confederate States are relatively much stronger now than when the struggle commenced.'

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