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Collection Reference Number GLC01265.38
From Archive Folder Civil war loyalty pamphlets 
Title The Amendment of the federal Constitution : an Address Before the Christian Association for National Reformation, of Southern Illinois by James Wallace, in Rev. S. Wylie's Church, Eden, November 8, 1864
Date 1865
Author Wallace, James (1810-1877)  
Document Type Pamphlet
Content Description Argues that the constitution needs to be amended "so as to become the fundamental law of a christian republican government." States that when the Southern states seceded from the Union, they were not only rejecting the authority of the Constitution, but were rejecting the authority of God.
Subjects US Constitution  Religion  Government and Civics  US Constitutional Amendment  Civil War  Secession  Government and Civics  Law  Confederate States of America  
People Wallace, James (1810-1877)  
Place written St. Louis, Missouri
Theme Religion; Government & Politics; Law
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945