SPEECH...AT CAPITOL SQUARE, COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 11, 1871.
[Columbus: 1871]. Caption title [as issued], stitched, 10pp, double columns. Light soil. Rubberstamp in upper right corner ['Gift Estate of Thomas Ewing III October 23, 1947 The Library of Congress']. Very Good. Though a Democrat, Ewing had been a strong anti-slavery man before the War, and commanded troops in Missouri and Kansas during it. "A conspicuous leader of the Greenback wing of the Democratic party" [DAB], he here promotes its idea to substitute greenbacks for national bank notes, and blasts Grant as an incompetent idiot. FIRST EDITION. Not in Thomson, Eberstadt, Decker. 164 NUC 0216504 [1]. Item #10037
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