15pp, two-column text. Removed, spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.75" x 5.75" Hendricks, elected to the US Senate in 1863, was a leader among Democrat opposition to Lincoln's administration. "He opposed the draft, emancipation, the heavy tax bills, and the issue of greenbacks...claiming that the negro was inferior and no good would come from his freedom, that emancipation was a matter for the states and the Southern states were not in a condition to consider it...," &c., &c. [Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 8]

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