Is Davis a Traitor; or, War Secession a Constitutional Right, Previous to The War of 1861? by Albert Taylor Bledsoe. 1st printing
Is Davis a Traitor; or, War Secession a Constitutional Right, Previous to The War of 1861? by Albert Taylor Bledsoe. Printed for the author by Innes & Company. 1866. Cloth covered hardcover with no dust jacket. Paper label toward the bottom of the spine. A 3/8" diameter section of the cloth missing below the label. 1" of heavy wear on the top of the back cover. A light white speckling (paint?) on the back cover. A light oval rubber stamp inside the front and back cover and on some of the interior pages of 'Southern Pacific Company General Hospital on Sep.6 1911'. Previous owner name and address written on the first blank page. Inside the back cover is an envelope from the S.P.Co. library containing library rules. Light staining on the edges of some of the pages. Small black spots occasionally on some of the pages. There is a roughnesson the edge of one of the pages I believe is the result of a slight miss-binding of that page. No previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. HA28a
"Albert Taylor Bledsoe (November 9, 1809 – December 8, 1877) was an American Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as a staunch defender of slavery and, after the South lost the American Civil War, an architect of the Lost Cause.[1][2] He was the author of Liberty and Slavery (1856), "the most extensive philosophical treatment of slavery ever produced by a Southern academic", which defended slavery laws as ensuring proper societal order."- Wikipedia
" Bledsoe's title is somewhat misleading, for this book has much more to do with the technical aspects of secession than the loyalty of Jefferson Davis. Those seeking insight into the life of Davis will be disappointed, but those seeking modern parallels will find a trove of reason and sound argument. Bledsoe blames the overwhelming power of the Northern media for propagating the notion that any son of the South who fought against the Union was a "traitor." - https://confederatereprint.com/review_is_davis_a_traitor.php
"Albert Taylor Bledsoe (November 9, 1809 – December 8, 1877) was an American Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as a staunch defender of slavery and, after the South lost the American Civil War, an architect of the Lost Cause.[1][2] He was the author of Liberty and Slavery (1856), "the most extensive philosophical treatment of slavery ever produced by a Southern academic", which defended slavery laws as ensuring proper societal order."- Wikipedia
" Bledsoe's title is somewhat misleading, for this book has much more to do with the technical aspects of secession than the loyalty of Jefferson Davis. Those seeking insight into the life of Davis will be disappointed, but those seeking modern parallels will find a trove of reason and sound argument. Bledsoe blames the overwhelming power of the Northern media for propagating the notion that any son of the South who fought against the Union was a "traitor." - https://confederatereprint.com/review_is_davis_a_traitor.php
