# Proceedings at the Second Anniversary Meeting of the Loyal Publication Society, February 11, 1865/Report of the Publication Committee

REPORT OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
of the
LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY.
The Committee on Publications respectfully submit the following Report of their proceedings during the past year.
The Committee appointed at the last annual meeting of the Society to direct this branch of its operations, and under whose personal supervision its publications have been since issued, consists of—
James McKaye, Chairman.
| Grosvenor P. Lowrey, Dr. Frederick Schütz George P. Putnam, | John Austin Stevens, Jr., Charles Astor Bristed, Theodore G. Glaubensklee. |
The President of the Society and the Chairman of this Committee, during its first year, Dr. Francis Lieber, has also been a constant participant in the deliberations of the Committee, and to his wisdom, experience, and earnest devotion to the welfare of the Society, whatever of good it may have accomplished in the past season of political excitement, is largely due.
The Committee has held (30) thirty sessions. There have been presented for its consideration (63) sixty-three documents.
Under a rule adopted by the Committee at an early meeting, each one of the documents thus snbmitted was referred to a Special Committee, and their reports, in writing, may be found on the files of the Society.
Of the various articles of manuscripts and printed matter, (36) thirty-six have been reported upon favorably, and passed into ​the charge of the Executive Committee for publication under the rules. Of these there were:
1 Report of Proceedings of the Loyal Publication Society, First Year.
3 original articles prepared for the Committee.
8 compilations with introductions and commentaries, by members of the Committee.
4 German and Dutch translations, by the Committee
2 original articles first printed by the Society
8 reprints from stereotype plates, presented to the Society.
7 reprints of speeches and other documents.
1 a collection of patriotic songs designed for the use of soldiers and hospitals.
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Nine Broadsides were also issued, which may be found in the above named divisions, and which were intended for and received a large circulation during the political campaign.
The following table presents the numbers of the series and the titles under which the pamphlets have been issued:
List of Publications—Second Year.
Numbers. Titles. Number of pages.
​For List of Publications of First Year, see last page of this pamphlet.
The sizes of the several pamphlets have been as follows:
In the aggregate 697 pages of printed matter exclusive of covers.
The foregoing statement shows the nature and extent of the literary labor performed by the Committee, but it is due to them to record that their attention to the work with which they were charged, was by no means limited to the hours of their attendance at stated meetings or of their study at their homes. During the entire summer, and up to the very eve of the Presi- dential Election, therwas hardly a day when some of its members did not spend hours in superintending and aiding in the correction of proof, the distribution of documents, and in the general correspondence of the Society.
The Committee, while submitting to the approval of the Society, this record of their past action, cannot allow the opportunity to pass without expressing their hearty congratulation to their fellow laborers of the Executive Committee, and to the generous contributors to the funds of the Society ​on the achievement of the result for which it was organised, and for which all and in common have so earnestly labored and so devoutly prayed; the establishment of a sound healthy sentiment on public affairs; the welding together of discordant and disintegrating opinions; the development of a noble patriotism and national spirit; and finally the passage of the Amendment to the Constitution of our country forever abolishing the accursed demoralizing and aristocratic institution of slavery from our policy and our land.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES McKAYE
Chairman.
Geo. P. Lowrey,
New York, 1th February, 1865.
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