LETTERS OF HON. JOHN FORSYTH, OF ALABAMA, LATE MINISTER TO MEXICO, TO WM. F. SAMFORD, ESQ., IN DEFENCE OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
[Washington: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859]. Caption title, as issued. 16pp, untrimmed, uncut, and entirely unsophisticated. Mild dusting, Near Fine.
Southerners split in the campaign for the 1860 Democratic Presidential nomination over whether to support Senator Douglas's candidacy. Men like Forsyth argued that Douglas's Popular Sovereignty doctrine simply recognized the obvious: "Slave property will never go to a territory where the people do not want it." Insistence that Congress pass legislation guaranteeing slave owners the right to bring their slaves into any territory of their choosing is foolish and unrealistic. Opponents of Douglas "are doing the greatest injustice and are guilty of the blackest ingratitude to the bravest, the truest, and the noblest friend that has ever championed the cause of the South and of her constitutional rights."
Forsyth expresses his views in two Letters, dated in September and October 1859, to Samford, a well-known Southern Rights editor and politician.
Not in Ellison, Sabin, Bartlett, LCP. OCLC locates 16 copies under several accession numbers. Item #32344
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