NATIONAL BEREAVEMENTS. A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED IN THE NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, OF CHICAGO, ON THANKSGIVING DAY, NOV. 25, 1852. BY THE REV. R.H. RICHARDSON, PASTOR.

Chicago: Published by S.C. Griggs & Co.. "Democratic Press" Print, Clark Street, 1852. Disbound and light scattered foxing. 19, [1 blank] pp. Good+ or so.

"The sermon is a lamentation on the deaths of Webster and Clay." Byrd. Richardson eulogizes them as men who stood against "fanaticism" in order to "preserve intact the laws and constitution of the country" during the Nullification Crisis of 1832 and the 1848-1850 struggle over the slave status of the Mexican Cession.
FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 44 [3]. Byrd 1884 [3]. OCLC 15993151 [6]. Item #22854

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