AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, AT LEXINGTON, ON THE 4TH OF JULY, 1854. BY...OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1854 · Richmond
by Barbour, B.J.
Richmond, 1854. 32pp, stitched in original printed wrappers, blank lower corner of front wrap clipped, else Very Good.
On this national holiday the author lauds "that perpetual watchword of our hearts-- Virginia!" He denounces the "tendency to centralization" and "that morbid philanthropy and calculating humanity, which takes a fugitive slave for its hero, appeals to a higher law for revenge."
FIRST EDITION. Haynes 1040. Swem 275. (Inventory #: 22385)
On this national holiday the author lauds "that perpetual watchword of our hearts-- Virginia!" He denounces the "tendency to centralization" and "that morbid philanthropy and calculating humanity, which takes a fugitive slave for its hero, appeals to a higher law for revenge."
FIRST EDITION. Haynes 1040. Swem 275. (Inventory #: 22385)