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Dramatically titled printed broadside, headed “Who is Responsible for the War? Who is Accountable for Its Horrors and Desolation?,” one page, 9.25 x 11.25, no date but issued during the summer of 1864 during President Lincoln’s reelection campaign. An excerpt from a speech made by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, delivered at the Secession Convention of Georgia on January 31, 1861, also providing a timeline of actions leading up to the Civil War that took place during President Buchanan’s administration before Lincoln took office. In very good condition, with tape-repaired separations to fragile intersecting folds, and scattered toning and soiling. This was distributed in mid-1864 to counter Copperhead and Democratic Peace Party assertions that it was Lincoln who instigated the war.
