FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Boston: 1846. Original printed wraps, stitched, 32pp. Wraps with several chips. Rubberstamps and perforation stamp. Else a clean text. Good+. LCP 6524. More
Boston: 1846. Original printed wraps, stitched, 32pp. Wraps with several chips. Rubberstamps and perforation stamp. Else a clean text. Good+. LCP 6524. More
Boston: 1857. Original printed wraps [loose, lightly dusted], stitched. 27, [1]. 24 pp. Light wear, couple of rubberstamps. Good+. LCP 6534. More
Boston: 1851. Original printed wraps, stitched, 40pp. Light wear, couple of rubberstamps, else Very Good. Not in LCP. More
[Worcester? 1850?]. 7, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed, generously margined. Printed in double columns. Small burn mark on pages 5-7 costing several letters. Good+. The State Central Committee adopts Calhoun's Compact Theory of the Union, i.e., that each State constitutes a separate sovereignty bound to the others by a solemn..... More
Boston: 1862. 16pp, stitched, outer leaves lightly dustsoiled, front and rare leaves loose. Good+. A scarce 1862 campaign pamphlet. "These articles discuss the political situation in the United States in " NUC. Andrew, Bancroft, and Sumner are staunchly anti-slavery and for prosecution of the War until total victory is won..... More
[Boston? 1850]. 24pp, spine reinforced. Caption title [as issued]. Faded rubberstamp in a blank margin, Very Good. Massachusetts weighs in on slavery in the Territories, the Compromise of 1850, and other matters relating to "the unhappy fact of slavery." Condemning slavery, expressing distress that some Americans defend it as a...... More
[Boston? 1839]. 4pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Two holes in left blank margin from previous stitching. Light scattered foxing. Good+. The Resolves assert the duty of Massachusetts to protect its Negro citizens who are imprisoned as suspected slaves when traveling South. Such incidents were not unusual when ships docked..... More
[Boston: 1836]. 59, [1 blank] pp. Contemporary plain front wrapper, disbound. Very Good. The Committee Report rebukes abolitionists for challenging "the right of the master to the slave," which "is as undoubted as the right to any other property. It is recognized by the well understood admissions of the Constitution."..... More
[Boston: 1849]. 4pp. Caption title, as issued. Folded to 8vo. Signed at the end in type by five members of the District Committee. Light soil, else Very Good. The District Committee, headed by John Sargent, urges Whigs to stick together: many Northern Whigs were disappointed by Zachary Taylor's nomination and..... More