STRANGE DISCLOSURES.
1873. [Washington. 1873]. 14, [2 blanks] pp. Caption title [as issued].
[bound with, evidently as issued] THE DOINGS OF TWO CABINET MINISTERS. 32pp. Caption title [as issued]. Uniform browning, one short closed margin tear [no loss]. Bound together in original printed wrappers [some edge chipping and sunning], with wrapper title, JNO. W. WRIGHT VS. COLUMBUS DELANO, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, AND GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Good+ or so. Signed in ink on the front wrapper, "Senator Ramsey."
Wright, a Washington DC judge, claims here that he has been persecuted by the highest federal officials, especially Delano and Williams, "malefactors of the most dangerous character," who are guilty "of a series of oppressions, carried on by means of their official authority and influence, without a parallel." They have charged him, as trustee for Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River, with embezzling funds due from the federal government to those tribes. He reviews the slim evidence against him, rebuts it, and chronicles the libelous and slanderous campaign that has been undertaken against him.
FIRST EDITION. OCLC 44579499 [6] [as of December 2015]. Item #20718
Price: $275.00