Address delivered before the citizens of Providence, in the Universalist Chapel, for the fifty-second anniversary of American independence

by David Pickering

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First edition

Providence: Literary Cadet Office - Smith & Parmenter, printers, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; stitched, as issued; mild dampstaining, else near fine. The appendix pp. 21-24 , contains extracts from Ezra Stiles Ely's The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers, and from publications of the American Sunday School Union concerning the relationship between church and state. Pickering attacks Ely's plan for organizing a Christian party in

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