Item #38271 ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TIPPECANOE CLUB, OF NEW YORK: BY WHEELOCK S. UPTON, ESQ., OF NEW ORLEANS. AUGUST, 1840. Wheelock S. Upton.
ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TIPPECANOE CLUB, OF NEW YORK: BY WHEELOCK S. UPTON, ESQ., OF NEW ORLEANS. AUGUST, 1840.

ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TIPPECANOE CLUB, OF NEW YORK: BY WHEELOCK S. UPTON, ESQ., OF NEW ORLEANS. AUGUST, 1840.

[np: New York? 1840]. 8pp. Folded leaves, untrimmed with some separations along spine. Lightly to moderately Foxed. Good+.

AAS calls Upton's Address "An anecdotal attack on Amos Kendall, Martin Van Buren, and Democratic policies in general." Upton was a Louisiana Whig and Harvard-educated lawyer who wrote the State's Civil Code. In a celebrated case Upton would successfully represent Sally Miller, whose owner claimed she was a part-black slave. Sally prevailed in her assertion that she was in fact free: a white, German immigrant who had been hired as an indentured servant for a term of years.
In this Address Upton turns his attention to the foibles of Van Buren and his Party. "When I think of Martin Van Buren, when I pass in review how little there is in his political or personal character to entitle him to the respect or love of his fellow citizens, I cannot help the conviction, that next year at Kinderhook the little magician himself will wonder not why he fell from his 'pride of place,' but how he ever attained such a height to fall from."
OCLC 504367006 [2- both at British Lib.], 83217334 [1- AAS] as of April 2022. AI 40-6679 [1- NN]. Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Item #38271

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