LETTERS OF HON. JOHN FORSYTH, OF ALABAMA, LATE MINISTER TO MEXICO, TO WM. F. SAMFORD, ESQ., IN DEFENCE OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
[Washington: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859]. Caption title, as issued. 16pp, untrimmed, uncut, and entirely unsophisticated. Mild dusting, Near Fine. Southerners split in the campaign for the 1860 Democratic Presidential nomination over whether to support Senator Douglas's candidacy. Men like Forsyth argued that Douglas's Popular Sovereignty doctrine simply recognized the..... More