TO OUR CONSTITUENTS
by Cobb, Howell et al
Price: $45.00
- Bookseller: McGowan Book Co., Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: STOCK010467I
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Towers, printer,
- Place: [Washington, D.C.:
- Date published: 1849].
Book Description
[Washington, D.C.:: Towers, printer,. 1849].. 8 pp. . Dated: Washington City, February 26, 1849. First edition. Original sef- wraps. A near fine, uncut copy. Signed in type: Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, John H. Lumpkin. These Congressmen state in the opening lines of text: "We address you this circular from a sense of duty to ourselves. A portion of the Southern representatives in Congress, have recently issued an address to the people of the South on the exciting question of slavery. We were unable to unite with them in the movement, and the absence of our names from the paper which they have published, has given rise to strictures upon our course which we now propose to notice..." DeRENNE p.521: "Address by Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke and John H. Lumpkin, in reply to Calhoun's Address of January 22, 1849, favoring the maintenance of a nation-wide Democratic party" .
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