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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08057 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | Conditions of Peace Required of the So-called Seceded States |
| Date | 24 April 1861 |
| Author | Olmstead, Lemuel Gregory (1808-1880) |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Eight articles express severe pro-Union sentiments. First article calls for unconditional surrender. Second article calls for one hundred "arch traitors" to be delivered up and hung. Third article calls for record of names of traitors so they can be disfranchised forever. Fourth article calls for property of traitors to be confiscated. Fifth article calls for seceded states to pay the balance of all expenses. Sixth article calls for the payment of debts due to Northerners. Seventh article calls for "the immediate and unconditional abolition of Slavery." Eighth article says seceded states will be governed as territories until they comply with the above articles. Caption at bottom of broadside: "The above is the least that an indignant people will accept, outraged as they have been, by the foulest, most heinous, and gigantic instance of crime recorded in history." Stamp at bottom of recto, and another on verso, that says "Lemuel G. Olmstead New York." |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate States of America Secession Surrender Union Forces Suffrage Abolition African American History Slavery Treason Death Penalty |
| People | Olmstead, Lemuel Gregory (1808-1880) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Law; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |