A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the United States

by William Channing, llery

$125 · Offered by Back Creek Books

Glasgow: James Hedderwick & Son, 1837. From the Fourth Boston Edition. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Duodecimo. 52 pages. Channing was a prominent Unitarian clergyman and very much opposed to the annexation of Texas, which he believed would in essence amount to a deliberate spreading of slavery in the nation. Channing blamed slavery and speculation for what he saw as the unjust

• Binding: Leather

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