THE REPUBLIC OR THE OLIGARCHY? WHICH? AN APPEAL AGAINST THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE FROM THE PEOPLE TO THE STATE. BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
New York: American News Company, 1866. 36pp, disbound, held with two metal clasps in left margin [two earlier stab holes run through text - no loss]. Institutional blindstamp at title page, minor dusting of outer . Good+.
Cheever attacks the Republican Congress for failing, in the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, to guarantee to freedmen the right to vote. "The right to vote belongs to the people, and can neither be withheld nor bestowed by the government; otherwise the people are slaves. The essence of an oligarchy is the exclusion of particular classes from the vote." Congress's refusal is a lingering badge of slavery.
Sabin 70009. Not in Work, Blockson, Bartlett. Item #22638
Price: $75.00