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Quarto, 4 pages, printed on pale gray paper stock, formerly folded, in very god, very clean condition.
1864 Future Philadelphia Mayor's rare imprint supporting Lincoln's Republican Party candidates in the coming election.
The questions to be decided at the approaching elections are of graver import than any which have ever heretofore been submitted to a popular decision. They involve not only the welfare, the prosperity and character of the people of the United States, but also, the personal interest of each individual citizen. If the nominee of the Chicago convention [Democrat George McClellan] should be successful, no sane man can doubt that along with the base surrender of our national integrity to the traitors now in arms against the Union, there would come public and private calamity in the worst forms in which they can be manifested. Our great industrial establishments would be closed for want of occupation; the produce of our farms would waste in our granaries for want of consumers; labor would… Read More

Manuscript. Good. 1 ALS, to James Redpath, Boston, 30th September, 1875, 4 pp., which discusses the lectures of Mr. Gamaliel Bradford's lectures on finance and banking, and recommends his lectures to Redpath; 1 ANS to Rev. T. L. Cuyler, July 1869, declining an invita tion to lecture on temperance; 1 ANS to H. P. Ross, no date, "acknowledging receipt of yours"; 1 signed quotation: " Peace, if Possible - Justice at any rate Wendell Phillips Oct. 69."; 1 signed card: "13 Dec. 73 Admit bearer and friends Wendell Phi llips" Dictionary of American Biography VII, pages 546-547

octavo, 30 pages, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, rebound in early 20th century plain cloth, red and black leather spine labels, shelf number on spine,else a good copy.

folio, 29 pages, text written in both ink and pencil, in two different, but legible hands, paper somewhat tanned, else very good. Docketed on fragment of blank, final page: "Copy of Testimony in case of Gray Taken by the Reporters E. C. Dibble & H. U. James Reporters to his Majesty Andrew the 1st"
This item is a copy of the testimony, taken by two court reporters, given in the trial of James Gray and his son Elijah, who were convicted of the murder of Samuel Davis at LeRoy, New York, January 2, 1830. They had been drinking, and Davis was stabbed when he tried to run them out of his barroom. The father's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
McDade, in his The Annals of Murder, 380, records a printed account of the trial, entitled: Trial, &c, The people vs. Elijah Gray, & James Gray. Indictment for murder. [N.p., n.d.], McDade lists a single location, (NHi).

octavo, 28, 2 pp, ads, pamphlet, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, ex-library, hand and blindstamps on titlepage, roughly removed, text clean, else good. One of the advertisements is for the Trial of Thomas Paine, for a libel in the second part of his Rights of Man.