The Speculative Temple. An Address: before the Grand Lodge of the State of Alabama, in the Masonic Hall. In the City of Montgomery, on Tuesday Evening, Dec. 3, 1861.

John A. Lodor. The Speculative Temple. An Address . . . before the Grand Lodge of the State of Alabama, in the Masonic Hall. In the City of Montgomery, on Tuesday Evening, Dec. 3, 1861. . . 8vo.Original printed wrappers. Montgomery: Advertiser Book and Job Office, 1862. First Edition.

"An impassioned speech by Brother Lodor of Cahaba:

Another year has fled. Another wave is spent upon the shore of time. Another link is added to the long chain of years that reach beyond the flood. A year teeming with mighty events, and destined to shape the future of unborn millions, for weal or for woe. A year, whose history when written, will chronicle the convulsion and dismemberment of a great nation – the destruction of one of the fairest temples ever erected to Liberty and dedicated to Freedom – the erection of another, which Phoenix-like, sprung from a portion of its ruins, more just in its proportions, more severe in its beauty, and better adapted to secure the priceless liberties of those it has designed to shelter and protect."

Some very slight soiling, o/w Fine.