George H. Pendleton speech title page   Save
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Description: This title page is the first of eight pages of an 1863 speech by George H. Pendleton. This title page states "Speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, on the Enlistment of Negro Soldiers; Delivered During the Debate in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1863." "WASHINGTON: 1862" is printed at the bottom of the page. Pendleton was an Ohio politician from Cincinnati who was a committed member of the Democratic Party and strongly opposed the Union war effort during the American Civil War. He was a close associate of Clement Vallandigham, Ohio's leading Peace Democrat. The Democratic Party selected Pendleton to run as George McClellan's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1864. Due to Northern battlefield victories and the Democratic Party's opposition to the war effort, the McClellan-Pendleton ticket lost the election. Two acts passed by Congress in July of 1862 permitted African Americans to enlist in the army, but it wasn't until the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in January the following year that they were officially allowed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04275
Subjects: African American soldiers; African Americans--History; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Washington (D.C.)