PRINTED LETTER FROM W. McLAIN, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, COLONIZATION ROOMS, WASHINGTON CITY, NOVEMBER 1, 1848, DISCLOSING "THE PECULIAR CONDITION IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES," AND MAKING "AN EARNEST APPEAL TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND A BENEVOLENT PUBLIC GENERALLY FOR ASSISTANCE."
Washington D.C. 1848. Printed broadside document, signed in type by McLain, "In behalf of the Society." A couple of short, blank edge chips. Clean horizontal closed tear expertly repaired without loss. Good+. The Society advocated colonization as the solution to the "problem" of Free Negroes in America. The Society attracted..... More