OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CONCERNING RECRUITMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Washington: Nicholson, 1856. 30pp, stitched [but loosened] in original printed wrappers [a bit of edge chipping to the wraps]. Text clean and Very Good.

President Pierce's Attorney General pronounces illegal England's efforts to recruit American citizens to serve in the British army in its war against Russia. Protecting American neutrality, vindicating its sovereignty, Cushing "directed the prosecution of Crampton, the British minister in Washington, on the charge of recruiting soldiers within our borders for the British army during the Crimean War." DAB.
FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat. 610 NUC 0064345 [4]. Item #15031

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