Handy History of Secession and Self-Government (States' Rights)..

1929. Richmond, Va., 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside. Richmond, Va., 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside. A Curious Example of "Lost Cause" Propaganda [Broadside]. Boisseau, Sterling. Handy History of Secession and Self-Government (States' Rights) in the United States of America. Richmond, VA: Sterling Boisseau, 1929. 9" x 12" pictorial broadside on glossy paper, text on image of outstretched hand below headline, images of the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial in background. Light edgewear, three vertical fold lines with short tears at ends, a few other tiny tears to edges. $450. * A curious example of "Lost Cause" propaganda. Boisseau shows, through an example on each finger, that opposition to the Confederacy was hypocritical because Americans and the Federal government have supported it in all other cases, from "Secession and Self-government of the Colonies 1775-83" to the "Secession and Self-government of Poland and other countries after the World War 1914-1918." The caption to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial reads: "Two outstanding monuments.... One to Washington who stood for secession of the Colonies from Great Britain and Self-government. (...) The other to Lincoln who opposed the Secession of the Southern States and Self-government while endorsing the Secession of West Virginia from Virginia." OCLC locates 1 copy (The Library of Virginia).