Item #58038 Fair and / Last Warning! / [followed by two paragraphs of text, including two lines in large type]. Signed in type at the end "L.J. McCormick, Exr., / Est. A.M. Lewis. / Sumter County, Ala., March 15th, 1868."

Fair and / Last Warning! / [followed by two paragraphs of text, including two lines in large type]. Signed in type at the end "L.J. McCormick, Exr., / Est. A.M. Lewis. / Sumter County, Ala., March 15th, 1868."

[Demopolis, AL?]: 1868. Printed broadside, 11 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches, employing larger type for the head. In full: "All persons are henceforth notified to desist from hunting, foraging their stock, stealing or otherwise trespassing on the lands belonging to the estate of A.M. Lewis, lying in the counties of Marengo, Sumter, and Choctaw, Ala. All those who disregard this emphatic warning are informed that they will be most promptly arraigned before the 'Civil, Military / and / Powder and Lead Courts;' to the last of which, by the force of circumstances, the laziness of the negro, the great scarcity of meat, and the workings of felonious Radicalism, I am more religiously inclined. For the greater safety here and better government hereafter, the thief must go back to God, from whom he will receive more justice and less mercy than is agreeble [sic] to robbers." Eberstadt 168: 5 (this copy; accompanied by an Eberstadt identification slip). Not in Hummel or Ellison. Not recorded on OCLC. Folded, completely separated along one horizontal fold (though not affecting text), traces of old repairs on verso, a little soiled; still a very good example of an unrecorded Reconstruction-era broadside in need of some conservation. (#4988). Item #58038

Price: $1,500.00

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