Conditions of Peace Required of the So-called Seceded States, 24th April 1861 (litho)

"Eight articles express severe pro-Union sentiments. First article calls for unconditional surrender. Second article calls for one hundred ""arch traitors"" to be delievered up and hung. Third article calls for record of names of traitors so they can be disfranchised forever. Fourth article calls for property of traitors to be confiscated. Fifth article calls for seceded states to pay the balance of all expenses. Sixth article calls for the payment of debts due to Northerners. Seventh article calls for ""the immediate and unconditional abolition of Slavery."" Eighth article says seceded states will be governed as territories until they comply with the above articles. Caption at bottom of broadside: ""The above is the least that an indignant people will accept, outraged as they have been, by the foulest, most heinous, and gigantic instance of crime recorded in history."" Stamp at bottom of recto, and another on verso, that says ""Lemuel G. Olmstead New York."" Olmstead, Lemuel Gregory (1808-1880)