Extravagant and wasteful expenditure of the people's money. Fellow citizens -- it is well known to you all, that our state has received a part of our proportion of the surplus funds of the Union, created by the sales of the public lands..

[Newport: publisher not identified, 1837. Folio broadside (approx. 13¾" x 12"), text in triple column under the running head, signed at the end of the third column "Brenton" and dated August 21, 1837; a touch of creasing in the margins; near fine. Protests the use of funds generated by sales of public land to raise the salaries of state judges and assemblymen, and to pay state bank commissioner Samuel Young Atwell, Jonah Titus, and Elisha R. Potter. NY Historical only in OCLC. Not found in American Imprints, Bartlett, Hammett, or Sabin. (Inventory #: 55330)