B. O'Brien's Oration. / Delivered at the City Court / House, on / Civic Affairs. / followed

by two columns of dense text

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St. John, New Brunswick : nd 1834 . Printed broadside, 15 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches, the title printed in two sizes of bold type. A diatribe against corruption in St. John's local government, O'Brien scores the Negro Court that siphons money away from needed uses to enrich the pols and urges his fellow citizens to replace them with men that will pledge themselves to make retrenchment and lower the taxes. Apparently not in the NUC or on OCLC. Folded; heavily foxed, several pin holes in text, but a

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