MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AT ITS DECEMBER SESSION, 1857.
Frankfort, Kentucky: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1857. Original printed blue paper wrappers ["Gov. Morehead's Message. 1857"], stitched. 31, [1 blank] pp. Lightly foxed, Very Good.
Governor Morehead had been a Whig, serving in Congress during the Mexican War. During the collapse of the Whig Party in the 1850's, he switched to the American [Know-Nothing] Party and was elected Kentucky's Governor in 1855 on that ticket.
His Administration was forced to focus on the Panic of 1857, considered the first worldwide financial panic. "After a long period of almost unexampled prosperity, we have recently witnessed a wide-spread commercial revulsion, with such a derangement of the exchanges and monetary concerns of the whole nation, as seriously to affect the operations of trade, and to a great extent to paralyze the arms of industry."
He reviews the condition of Kentucky's banks, railroads, and other enterprises; deplores violence; discusses and rejects severely limiting paper money; and insists that Kentucky's finances are in good order.
OCLC 44596479 [3- two in KY, one at U Tx] as of October 2024. Item #40480
Price: $275.00