A very rare item; the entire year of The Jerseyman, an influential weekly issued in Morristown, New Jersey. Measuring a full 18 x 24 inches, this entire year contains incredible content. Each issue has value, and thus, increasingly, complete years are very difficult to obtain, having long ago been parted for individual issues.

[Civil War, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln]. The Jerseyman. The Union and the Constitution. Morristown, New Jersey. January to December, 1861 [52 Issues]. 1861. 208pp. 

Contents include:

Wives Wanted In Oregon | Two Men Bet Bags of Flour and Negro on Election of Abraham Lincoln | Northerners Living in South Carolina Return Home with War Impending | Secessionist Treason | Affairs in South Carolina | Fort Sumter Besieged | Orphan White Girls being Painted as Mulattos and Sold as Slaves | Conditions in Charleston | Dissolve the Union [Poem] | Consoling Red Haired People | Women Duellists | Oregon Determined to Rebel | The Progress of Treason [Pickens, etc.] | The Crime of Treason | J. S. Petegru of Charleston a True Patriot | The Trial of the Chinaman Jackalow for Piracy | Published Denial by President Elect Abraham Lincoln of any Will to Compromise with the Secessionists | Account of the Evacuation of Women and Children from Fort Sumter to New York | Virginia against Secession | A Word for the Hour by John Greenleaf Whittier [on the Outbreak of the Civil War] | Child Convicted of Murder in New Brunswick | Mr. Lincoln, President Elect on His Way to Washington | A Traitor’s Youthful Portrait | Lithography and the Art of Printing from Stone | Early Accounts of Lincoln’s Speeches en Route to Washington | Secession of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Louisiana | Anderson – A Fugitive Slave in Canada Extradited on Charges of Murder | Appoint of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy | The Female Chewer of Tobacco | The Anderson Fugitive Slave Case [Extensive] | Attempted Assassination in Washington | Rev. J. H. Thornwell of Charleston on Slavery [pro-slavery] |The President Elect a Tetotaller [sic.] | A Peep into Cut Throat Alley in New York by Theodore L. Cuyler | The Bible on Secession | Full Text of the Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln [with additional commentary – March 9] | The Great Massacre in Dahomey, Africa | A Woman’s Rights Country Parson Brownlow Against South Carolina Returning to the Union | Facts and Rumors from the South | Proposed Secession of a Country | Remarkable Career of an Imposter [Con Man] | A Supernatural Phenomeon – Story of a Railroad Engineer | Warlike Movements | New Theory of the Shape of the Earth [not flat, not an oblate sphere, but actually flat or depressed at both spheres] | Fort Sumter Evacuated by Major Anderson | A Patriotic Clergyman | Southern Parts to be Blockaded Morristown Aroused | The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake [Poet] | Southern Ferocity | An Impression of Jefferson Davis | War Facts and Rumors | Henry Clay on Secession | Sermon “The Old Flag” by Henry Ward Beecher to the Brooklyn Volunteers | Special Session of the Senate of New Jersey | Army Hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes | Secessionists in Morris County | Death of Colonel Ellsworth | Capturing the Capital | Jeff Davis Boasts of Taking Over the White House | New Jersey Troops in Virginia | Artemus Ward in the Southern Confederacy | Death of Stephen A. Douglas | A Psalm for Liberty [Poem] | The Hero of Sumter as a Christian | Jefferson Davis as a Prophet | Indian Degradations in New Mexico | Harpers Ferry Deserted by the Rebels | Our National Calamity – A Sermon Preached by I. Thompson | A Wag in the Camp | The “Wild Cat” Regiment | The President’s Fourth of July Message [in full] | What is there to Compromise? By Horace Greeley | The Birth of King Cotton | Mr. Russell Sees a Slave Auction [first-hand account, Montgomery Alabama] | The Liberty of Speech and the Press – An Essay by David Naar Read to the New Jersey Editorial Association | How the Working White Live in Virginia | Inefficiency of the Blockade | Sketch of the American Flag by Alfred B. Street | Ten Ways to Commit Suicide | Niggerless Individuals | Five Additional Regiments from New Jersey Called For | Not Yet by William Cullen Bryant | One of the Horrors of War | A Southern Refugee Visits the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting [fascinating] | The Negative Influences of Slaves on Whites in South Carolina [published here from a South Carolina source as shocking, not advocating] | What the Rebels are Fighting For | Inducements to Enlist for the War | A Proclamation by the President of the United States [Abraham Lincoln – in Full] | How the South is Raising Funds | Mr. Russell on the South | A Frenchman in Utah [ Brigham Young – Salt Lake City – Mormons etc.] | The Enfield and Minie Rifles | A Southern Jerseyinian | A Sermon by Jacob Green at the Day of Fasting, 1773 | The Red White and Blue by Kate M. T. | Martial Law in Missouri – Important Proclamation of Maj. Gen. Fremont | Confiscation of Rebel Property | Border Patriotism | A Fiendish Atrocity | Slave Life in Virginia | Jefferson on Coercion | Freedom of the Press | The Orphan Girl’s Prayer | Interesting from the South | Pensions for Our Soldiers | The Defense of Fort Stephenson | How Bomb Shells are Made | Parson Barlow of Tennessee | Secession Horrors in Tennessee Described by Andrew Johnson | A Flank Attack from California | To the New Vernon Volunteers | Patriotic Women | The Resignation of General Winfield Scott | Aquatic Soldiers | To the Daughter of America | Servile Insurrections in South Carolina | Horrible Punishments of the Slaves | A Southern Martyr | Magnitude of the War and much, much more. 

Plus, a near daily diary entitled “Progress of the War” chronicling the ongoing military action, losses, victories, etc.,

Generally sound, no binding, remains of binding to spine. Textually good + with expected handling, occasional closed tears, etc,. paper remains in good order.