THE WAYNE SENTINEL---- EXTRA. PALMYRA, NEW YORK. THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRESENT TARIFF, IN A SERIES OF TWELVE ESSAYS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE WASHINGTON UNION OVER THE SIGNATURE OF 'BUNDELCUND.' WRITTEN BY THE HON. EDMUND BURKE.
Palmyra, N.Y. Sentinel Office, 1846. 40pp, disbound and moderately foxed. Good+.
This is a rare printing of Burke's essays. OCLC, the only consulted source recording it, locates a single copy. The Washington imprint is far more common.
Burke was a New Hampshire Democratic lawyer who served as President Polk's Commissioner of Patents. In these essays he defends Polk's 1846 'Tariff of Abominations,' called thus by its detractors, and the integrity of the Democratic Party.
OCLC 40970541 [1- U. Chicago]. Not in American Imprints, Eberstadt, Decker. AAS, American Imprints, the Huntington, and the New York Public Library record only the DC printing. Item #26869
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