Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PRESIDENTS--1832.) Jackson, Andrew. Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. Letterpress broadside, 23 3/4 x 20 inches, in six columns with decorative border; moderate foxing, wear along folds with slight loss and archival repairs; uncut. Np, 10 December 1832

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The full text of the important "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina," issued in response to that state's Ordinance of Nullification. Jackson offers a strong response to the dangerous precedent of a state operating in defiance of federal law. "The laws of the United States must be executed . . . disunion by armed force is treason." Sabin 35352.