VOL. VII/NO. 323. 16pp. [145-160] This issue appeared during the opening phase of Joe Hooker’s tenure as Army of the Potomac cover. The cover lithograph illustrates an accompanying profile of "The Late Nicholas Longworth", the eminent, nationally prominent Cincinnati millionaire. [ One of Longworth’s daughters married Larz Anderson, the brother of Major Anderson of Ft. Sumter fame. His namesake congressman grandson would marry Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice in 1906 and later become Speaker of the House of Representatives. Indeed, the Longworth congressional office building is named for the later Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.] Other magazine illustrations highlight early operations against Vicksburg—[i.e. the U.S. gunboat "Indianola" running the batteries before Vicksburg, and a two page spread of the "Scene in one of the [earlier] Battles Before Vicksburg."]

Editorially, the magazine asks rhetorically "Who Are Our Enemies in England?", and follows with a tart indictment of Lord Hartingdon, son of the Duke of Devonshire, who appeared at a recent New York dinner party with a miniature secession flag, worn, as an order of nobility pinned to his coat. "He was civilly requested to remove it," the editors report, "but declined to do anything so reasonable. Thereupon an officer in the United States Infantry, a son of our townsman, gave him the choice of removing it, or having it removed for him."

The editors proceed from there to an indictment linking the British aristocracy with the southern slaveholding aristocracy, a linkage that seemed fairly obvious to many northerners. "But the [English] aristocracy—the men who live by other men’s labor, like the southern planters—this class is our deadly enemy…….The contest we are waging is not fought in our interest alone. We are fighting the battle of democracy throughout the world."

Though slightly yellowed, this issue is completely intact and in near-pristine condition.  [ld] [ph:L]

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