Lasset das Volk die Wahreheit Hören!
Pennsburg, Montgomery Co., Pa: 1863. Item #543
8vo. 190 x 125 mm., [7 ½ x 5 inches]. 14 [2] pp. blanks. Stitched as issued. Title enclosed in decorative typographical border; paper a bit discolored by age, final leaf show some wear from folds.
Anti-war political pamphlet arguing against the Civil War on constitutional grounds. He blames the leader of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln for the conflict between he North and the South. “The agreement of the states was that each state should regulate its own internal affairs, and that every citizen of every state had the same right to go to the communal territories with its own property.” Property in this context meant ownership of slaves. The pamphlet was published the around the time of the Battle of Gettysburg and anti-draft riots in New York which stoked Democratic Party resistance to the war.
It was written by Albrecht Kneule, German immigrant, printer, and newspaper publisher who was a strong advocate of the Democratic Party and publisher of the Bauren Freund, a newspaper in Montgomery County, Pa.. He held public office in Montgomery County during the Cleveland administration and continued to publish his newspaper and advocate for positions supported by the Democrats well after the war. In 1907 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a printer and newspaper man.
Not listed in OCLC. Samuel T. Wiley, ed., Entry for “Albrecht Kneule” Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, 1895), Pages 199-200. Who’s Who in Pennsylvania, New York, 1908, p. 414.
Price: $350.00