ARGUMENT OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD, IN DEFENCE OF ABEL F. FITCH AND OTHERS, UNDER AN INDICTMENT FOR ARSON, DELIVERED AT DETROIT ON THE 11TH, 12TH AND 14TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1851. PHONOGRAPHICALLY REPORTED BY T.C. LELAND.
Detroit: F.B. Way & Company, 1851. 64pp, stitched. Foxed early leaves, else scattered light soil. Good+ or so. Seward was counsel to Fitch, allegedly the "chief conspirator" in a plot to sabotage the Michigan Central Railroad, whose newly built and unfenced line had killed cattle and other livestock grazing onto..... More