AMERICAN FINANCES AND RESOURCES. LETTER NO. III. OF HON. ROBERT J. WALKER, M. A. COUNSELLOR AT LAW IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, LATE LAW REP. MI., SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, COMMISSIONER TO CHINA, GOVERNOR OF KANSAS, ETC., ETC.
London: William Ridgway, 1863. 26pp. Disbound, else Very Good.
Walker had been an expansionist Mississippi Senator and Polk's Treasury Secretary, enthusiastically supporting the Texas annexation and the Mexican War. But "Walker was at heart a Free-Soiler" and he remained an "eager Unionist" [DAB]. He spent much of the War in England selling federal bonds to support the war effort. In this Letter he demonstrates, with an array of data, the economic superiority of free labor over slavery.
The pamphlet was reprinted in 1864 as Letter No. V.
OCLC 26044400 [3- Lincoln Pres. Lib., U MN, U IL] as of June 2026. Item #42096
Price: $150.00