By Thomas Ewing Dabney. Reprinted from the Louisiana Historical Society, Vol. No 27, April 1944. In beige wraps, 42 pp., 10.5” x 7. Covers slightly faded at the margins. Else near fine.

This monograph proposes the thesis that Secessionist sentiment was not near as fervent Louisiana as in South Carolina, that there was in fact a state civil war of sorts pitting the New Orleans commercial class and the Cotton plantation class dependent on slavery. To the former class, the Butler regime, despite its corruption, was not nearly so onerous as it appeared to the latter.  That Jefferson Davis branded Benjamin Butler, at the time of his relief, “an outlaw and common enemy of humanity, to be hung as soon as caught,” was was by no means a sentiment shared by Louisianians at large. A very be plausible thesis.  [jp][ph:L]

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