Postal cover advocating the unification of seceded states in the Confederate States of America, 1861. G.W. Falen, Printer, Charleston, South Carolina, C.S.A. Illustrated with a segmented serpent beneath a Confederate flag flying from a Palmetto tree, and the legend, UNITE OR DIE. "The device of our Fathers in their first struggle for liberty,--1776." Below, a quotation of Jefferson Davis, "SLAVE STATES...the only way of preserving our slave property, or what we prize more than life, our LIBERTY, is by a UNION WITH EACH OTHER."
This rare cover conveys the central paradox of the Southern rebellion: that it was against centralized control, but it required centralization to defend itself.
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