(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) MUHLENBERG HENRY To a Reflecting Com

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) MUHLENBERG, HENRY. To a Reflecting Community. Small letterpress broadside, 6-7/8 x 5-1/4 inches; paper evenly toned. Pennsylvania, 1836

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"It frequently occurs that when men are candidates for office, their evil deeds are emblazoned forth to their detriment, and the good they have done is often buried in oblivion," the heading of this broadside and a neat paraphrasing of Brutus'speech on Caesar. This little broadside tells a story with an interesting moral. It concerns Pat, Henry A. Muhlenberg's Negro house servant, a runaway slave. Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg (1782- 1844) was an American political leader and diplomat. He was a member of the Muhlenberg Family political dynasty and Jacksonian Democrat. When the authorities first came to Mr. Muhlenberg's home and violently tried to "capture and pinion poor Pat," Muhlenberg intereceded. But when Pat's owner Thomas Hillary brought a $400 suit against him in Circuit Court, Muhlenberg gave Pat up. The real moral here is what won't politicians use against each other in campaign season.