An eminent southern clergyman.

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Title: An eminent southern clergyman.
Collection Title: Patriotic envelope collection. Series I: Civil War envelopes, 1861-1865.
Publisher: New-York Historical Society
Description: Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. Clergyman at the pulpit with bible on it with the devil standing beside him. Each has one hand on the open bible. Beige envelope with black ink. Image on left. Printed below image: 'AN EMINENT SOUTHERN CLERGYMAN, / During an eloquent discourse, is wonderfully / assisted in finding scriptural authority for Se- / cession and Treason, and the divine ordination / of Slavery.' At top-left corner of envelope, printed '3.'
Institution: New-York Historical Society
Identifier: aj45013.jpg
1578
Subject: Devil
Clergy
Slavery--United States
Slavery and the church
Religion and politics
Material type or medium of original: Pictorial envelopes
Patriotic envelopes
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