Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) MORRIS, WALKER. An Address to the People of the United States, and particularly of the Slave States. 50 pages. Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers; light wear. Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1862

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first edition. An unusual pamphlet, in which the author argues against dissolving the Union. Morris, while defending states' rights, advocates the preservation of the Constitution and asks: "What benefit, advantage do you expect to derive from a dissolution of the Union?" While OCLC locates 13 copies of this pamphlet, this is the first copy we have seen for sale.