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Item #40996 SURVEY OF THE STATE OF EDUCATION, ARISTOCRATIC AND POPULAR, AND OF THE GENERAL...

SURVEY OF THE STATE OF EDUCATION, ARISTOCRATIC AND POPULAR, AND OF THE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF MORALITY AND RELIGION. INSCRIBED TO THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D., PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS.

Wheeling: E. W. & L. D. Newton, Printers, Main Street, 1833. 35, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, scattered foxing. Good+. The prefatory 'Address to the People of the United States,' written from Wheeling VA in November 1833, warns that the future of the Republic requires "the adoption of some plan, that..... More

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Item #40778 SECOND REPORT ON THE LOCATION OF THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO...

SECOND REPORT ON THE LOCATION OF THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL-ROAD, TO A COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF WHEELING.

Philadelphia: John C. Clark, Printer, 1850. 111, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Minor occasional foxing, Very Good. Ellet, a highly regarded civil engineer who had built "the first important suspension bridge in the United States" [DAB], renders a detailed examination of the subject, having revised his earlier..... More

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ORDINANCES OF THE TOWN OF MOUNDSVILLE, PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCES, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.

Moundsville, West Va: New State Gazette Print, 1880. [1-title], [3 blank], 29, [1 blank], 30-52, [1 blank] pp, followed by several blank leaves. Bound in quarter morocco with spine rubbed, and chipped. Very Good. Moundsville is in West Virginia's northern panhandle, along the Ohio River, in Marshall County. The County..... More

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Item #41091 REVIEW OF THE SLAVE QUESTION, EXTRACTED FROM THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, DEC....

REVIEW OF THE SLAVE QUESTION, EXTRACTED FROM THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, DEC. 1832; BASED ON THE SPEECH OF TH. MARSHALL, OF FAUQUIER: SHOWING THAT SLAVERY IS THE ESSENTIAL HINDRANCE TO THE PROSPERITY OF THE SLAVE-HOLDING STATES; WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO VIRGINIA. THOUGH APPLICABLE TO OTHER STATES WHERE SLAVERY EXISTS. BY A VIRGINIAN.

Richmond: Printed by T.W. White, 1833. 48pp. Disbound and foxed. Good. Nat Turner's slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, brought to reality the South's worst nightmare. The incident sparked the only concerted effort by a Slave State to abolish slavery within its borders. Western Virginia's Charles Faulkner and Thomas Jefferson's..... More

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Item #20800 CONSTITUTION OF WEST VIRGINIA. West Virginia

CONSTITUTION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

[Wheeling: 1862]. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, 32pp, Very Good. The Constitution barred the entry into the new State of slaves and "free persons of color." But it noted, in parentheses, the substitute provision that Congress proposed: the gradual end of slavery in the State, by emancipating the children of..... More

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