Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WAR OF 1812.) Let Every Federalist Do His Duty, and Massachusetts Will Yet Be Saved!!! Letterpress broadside, 18 1/4 x 11 inches; minor foxing, folds; uncut. (MRS) Boston, April 1811

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A forceful argument against the looming war with Great Britain. "You now obey the commands of the enemy of the human race, Bonaparte; these commands are sent to you through the proud, tyrannical, slave holding planters of your southern states. . . . Will you listen? Will you think? Will you act?" Concludes with the full text of the inflammatory Boston Resolutions recently passed by a meeting of local Federalists, and signed in type by Peter O. Thacher. Shaw & Shoemaker 23210.