drop-title Improvement in the Navy. Speech of Hon. S. A. sic Mallory, of Florida, in the Senate of the United States, June 20, 1854

by Stephen R. Mallory

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Washington : Congressional Globe Office, 1854. Disbound. Good binding. Item #8938 Octavo. 7, 1 pp. Removed from volume. Light age-toning; pencil notations on the title page, including a correction to the spelling of the authors name. Mallory, who later went on to become the secretary of the navy for the Confederacy, here argues for better pay, a more reasonable system of promotion, and other improvement to increase the

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