ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, RESIDING WITHIN THE FIRST FIVE WARDS OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. ALSO, A REPLY TO THE HON. ISAAC MCKIM, REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CONGRESS OF THE U.S. FROM THAT DISTRICT. BY THE LATE DELEGATION DEPUTED TO PRESENT TO HIM INSTRUCTIONS FROM A MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS OF THAT PORTION OF HIS DISTRICT.
Baltimore: Sands & Neilson, 1834. 30, [1], [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed, and partly uncut. Last two leaves foxed. Else Very Good, with the ink ownership signature of 'Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee,' a Massachusetts Whig who, when this pamphlet was printed, was a United States Senator.
A rare pamphlet criticizing McKim, a Baltimore Jacksonian Congressman, for rejecting his constituents' instructions that he oppose Jackson's removal of the federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. McKim refused on the ground that about half the names of the alleged constituents did not appear on the rolls of qualified voters.
R.D. Milholland, Matthew Kelly, George Thomae, Aaron Clapp, and Alexan. Kirkland, representatives of each of the five wards in McKim's district, angrily rebut McKim's assertion. They present a 20-page "List of Signers to the instructions to the Hon. Isaac McKim, whose names are found on the poll-books of the first five wards of the city of Baltimore"; a List of Signers to the Instructions whose names were rejected by McKim, although they were in fact legal and qualified voters; and another list of 205 names, voters who would have signed the instructions but had been unable to do so in timely fashion.
OCLC records copies of this pamphlet only at the Boston Athenaeum and Temple University. American Imprints adds the Boston Public Library and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
AI 22849 [2]. OCLC 66290907 [2] as of April 2020. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker. Item #25246
Price: $275.00