Month: December 2018

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Calvin Blanchard — Those Peculiar Advertisements (1859–1865)

December 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
THE NATION’S CRISIS!—When Grant took Richmond, recaptured the “State prison birds” that had flown, and wrote himself “Your obedient servant” to Lee, he was perfectly consistent with the masked devilishness that underlies all government. There new was and never can be punishment for being criminal, but only for not being criminal enough! CALVIN BLANCHARD, No. 30 Ann st., has written a Book, scientifically showing a new way. Price 50 cents; by mail 60 cents.

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“Last Words of Calvin Blanchard” (1868)

December 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] LAST WORDS OF CALVIN BLANCHARD. Mr. Calvin Blanchard, recently deceased, aged 60, was a remarkable man. Thirty-five years ago, when he and we were journeymen printers in this City, he was currently nicknamed “Anti-Christ” by his associates—his creed being what most of us deemed infidelity, though he gave it a different designation. He afterward became an author, bookseller and publisher, giving currency to many works which were condemned as immoral as well as irreligious, though no one who knew him could doubt that he thought them otherwise. Dying, he left the […]
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Calvin Blanchard, “Astonishing Disclosures! Hell on Earth!” (1860)

December 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURES!! Hell on Earth! Murder, Rape, Robbery, Swindling and Forgery Covertly Organized! Cannibalism Made Dainty! AN EXPOSITION OF THE INFERNAL MACHINATIONS AND HORRIBLE ATROCITIES OF WHITED SEPULCHERISM; TOGETHER WITH A SURE PLAN FOR ITS SPEEDY OVERTHROW. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE RELIGION OF SCIENCE,” “THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE,” AND “THE NEW CRISIS.” PUBLISHED BY CALVIN BLANCHARD, ___ 1860. ARGUMENT. I. Supernatural foolery, the foundation of legal and political humbug; whence result human degradation and misery. II. The cunning hypocrisy and treachery of theologians, and the covert scoundrelism of law-mongers and […]