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Mann was elected to Payer.” American Imprints 6119; Sabin 6785. Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a 2. [Abolition.] Freeman, Frederick. Yaradee; a mark, advocating Congress’s right and duty to exclude slavery plea for Africa, in familiar conversations on the subject from the territories, and in a letter in December of that year he of slavery and colonization. Philadelphia: J. Whetham, said: “I think the country is to experience serious times. Interfer- 1836. $125 ence with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But First edition, 12mo, pp. 360; original floral-patterned green cloth; it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union good, with moderate wear to the extremities (especially to the is a rope of sand or a band of steel.” front joint), and moderate foxing throughout. Freeman was a Christian abolitionist who wrote several novels in which he 6. [Abolition.] Martineau, Harriet. The martyr demonstrated theological evidence that American slavery was an age of the United States of America, with an appeal evil practice that went against the lessons of antiquity and the on behalf of the Oberlin Institute in aid of the abolition Bible. of slavery. “Re-published from the London and West- minster Review by the Newcastle upon Tyne Emanci- 3. [Abolition.] Garrison, William Lloyd. Letter pation and Aborigines Protection Society.” Newcastle to Louis Kossuth, concerning freedom and slavery in upon Tyne: Finlay and Charlton; London: Hamilton, the United States. In behalf of the American Anti-Slav- Adams and Co.; Dublin: Currie and Co. [et al.], ery Society. Boston: published by R. F. Wallcut, for 1840. $150 the American A.S. Society, 1852. $100 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 44; modern card wrappers, paper label on upper First edition, 8vo, pp. 112; removed from binding, wrappers cover; title page with a small area of water damage, else very wanting; very good. An appendix (pp. 81-112) contains letters, good. Includes a prefatory letter by Thomas Clarkson. Afro-Amer- newspaper articles, addresses, verse, &c. relating to Kossuth’s icana 6391; Sabin 44939. visit to the United States. Includes two original poems by W. E. Channing (BAL 3064) and a long address by John S. C. Abbot with a reply by Kossuth. Abolitionists had hoped to sway Kossuth 7. [Abolition.] Ten abolitionist pamphlets, the to their cause, but, fearing that he might alienate wealthy South- property of the radical abolitionist William Ingersoll erners, he kept his distance. At the same time his image as a Bowditch. V.p., v.d.: 1845-1850. $1,600 freedom fighter did not appeal to the conservative South. Caught • Anti-slavery Examiner, no. XI. The Constitution a pro-Slavery up in the great divide of American politics, his mission to secure Compact: or Selections from the Madison Papers, &c. Second funds in the New World for his homeland ended in failure. Not edition, enlarged. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, in Afro-Americana. Sabin 38270. 1845. pp. 131, [1]; signed “William I. Bowditch”; • The Anti-Slavery Examiner, no. 13. Can Abolitionists Vote or 4. [Abolition.] Mann, Horace. The Fugitive Slave Take Office under the United Law. Speech of Horace Mann, of Mass., delivered in States Constitution? New the House of Representatives, in Committee of the York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845. pp. 39, [1]; whole on the state of the Union, Friday, February 28, • Spooner, Lysander. The 1851, on the Fugitive Slave Law. [Washington, D.C.]: Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Congressional Globe Office, 1851. $50 Boston: Bela Marsh, 1845. pp. 8vo, pp. 24; text in double column; self-wrappers; previous folds; 156; very good. With a clipped signature of “A. Mann MC / rec. March • Spooner, Lysander. The 17, 1851” at the top of the first leaf. In 1850 Mann was engaged Unconstitutionality of Slavery, in a controversy with Daniel Webster in regard to the extension Part Second. Boston: Belar of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, calling Webster’s support Marsh, 1847. pp. [133]-281, for the Compromise of 1850 a “vile catastrophe,” and comparing [1]; him to “Lucifer descending from Heaven.” Mann was defeated • Phillips, Wendell. Review of by a single vote at the ensuing nominating convention by Webster’s Lysander Spooner’s Essay on supporters; but, on appealing to the people as an independent the Unconstitutionality, anti-slavery candidate, he was re-elected, serving from April 1848 reprinted from the “Anti- until March 1853. Slavery Standard,” with Item 7 Catalogue 164 3 additions. Boston: Andrews & Prentiss, 1847. pp. 95, [1]; 10. Adler, C. A. The man in the moon and moon- • The Constitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the shine in general. Lecture delivered for the benefit of Massachusetts Quarterly Review. Boston: Coolidge & Wiley, the Charitable Fuel Society, Providence, Nov. 20, 1851 1848. pp. 48; • Substance of the Speech made by Gerrit Smith, in the Capitol ... Price 12 1-2 cents. Sold for the benefit of the Char- of the State of New York, March 11th and 12th, 1859. Albany: itable Fuel Society. Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Jacob T. Hazen, 1850. pp. 30, [2]; Co., 1851. $75 • Bowditch, William I. Slavery and the Constitution. Boston: First edition, 8vo, pp. 25; original tan printed wrappers; old library Robert F. Wallcut, 1849. pp. 156; sticker at the top of the front wrapper; very good. A humorous • Stuart, M. Conscience and the Constitution with Remarks on lecture on the myths and popular misconceptions of the moon. the Recent Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of Slavery. Boston: Crocker 11. [Aeronautics.] Masson, G., editor. Revue de & Brewster, 1850. pp. 119, [1]; l’Aeronautique. Paris: Revue de l’Aeronautique, • Report of Remarks by Rev. G. W. Perkins, on Mr. Stuart’s Book “Conscience and the Constitution,” at a meeting in Guilford, 1893. $65 August 1, 1859. Commemorative of Emancipation in the West 6e année, 1re et 2e livraisons; 4to, pp. 36; 6 plates; text in French, Indies [drop title], n.p., n.d. pp. 28. original printed paper wrappers; light toning to covers, near fine. Together, 10 titles in 1 volume, wrappers wanting; contemporary Revue de l’Aeronautique was an early aeronautical serial that ran quarter morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt “Anti-Slavery from 1888 to 1901. Pamphlets / 3” on spine, with an old accession label at the base of the spine and an old library bookplate 12. [Aesthetics.] Santayana, showing this was a gift of William Ingersoll George. The sense of beauty being Bowditch. Typed index tipped in at the front. the outlines of aesthetic theory. London: Adam and Charles Black, 8. [Abolition.] Thompson, 1896. $75 George. Letters and addresses ... First English edition, 8vo, pp.