1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Slavery but solid and in a

but solid and in a nice Victorian binding

Revivals no Religion

The Patent-Medicine-Almanac Victim

and his first ever formally published illustrated poem [Image #2 in this listing]

He regularly returned to India to oversee the development of the mission

1863 J. C. STILES. National Rectitude: An Appeal to the Confederate States. Plea for Repentance. Slavery but solid and in aA very unusual sermon preached by a Confederate divine in the midst of the Civil War. In it, he argues that greed, filthy lucre, avarice, etc., will be the downfall of the South. One cannot help wonder whether this is all a euphemism for slavery, or whether he sees these as the core problems, and the plight of the slave as secondary, etc,. It is notable that he lays responsibility for the continuing war on the heads of the Southern plantation owners