Upon Whom Rests the Guilt of the War? by Edouard Laboulaye - 1863
Laboulaye, M. Edouard. UPON WHOM RESTS THE GUILT OF THE WAR? SEPARATION: WAR WITHOUT END. Wm. C. Bryant and Co. New-York. 1863. 19 pgs. 1st. Laboulaye was a prominent French jurist, poet and author who as a staunch proponent of the American constitution and anti-slavery advocate in the latter days of Napoleon III's reign as emperor. He wrote this paper which argues that Southern victory would lead to re-establishment of English supremacy in Europe. After the fall of napoleon III in 1870 he was instrumental in establishing the Third Republic, and his ideals for this came from the American constitution which was re-established after the Civil War. At the war's conclusion, in 18656 he had the idea of presenting a statue representing liberty as a gift to the United States, a symbol for ideas suppressed by napoleon III. The sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartoldi, one of Laboulaye's friends, turned the idea into reality. Sabin #38445. Vg cond.