A fascinating sermon by Samuel Thayer Spear, preached just 9 days after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, in which Spear argues that, while the Church is a Gospel community, the Government is a justice community, divinely ordered by God to punish wrongdoers. He urges in no uncertain terms that a Government of Christians would demand capital punishment be imposed no just on Lee and Davis, but on a whole host of leaders and perpetrators in the Confederate cause. 

Spear, Samuel T. The Punishment for Treason. A Discourse Preached April 23d, 1865, in the South Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, by Samuel T. Spear, D. D., Pastor. Published by Request. Brooklyn. "The Union" Steam Presses. 1865. 38pp.

A rather very good copy, bound in wraps, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.