Remarks of the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq

by William E. Channing

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First edition

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 91, 1 ; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, foxed, else very good and sound. A point by point rebuttal of Henry Clay's speech that February, in which Clay attacked abolitionists and defended the right of the Southern states to decide the question of slavery for themselves, without any interference. Clay was making a bid for the 1840 presidency at the time, and was determined to maintain his

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