Manuscript Application To Washington Camp No 1 Of The Patriotic Order Of Junior Sons Of America By A

by Patriotic Order Of Junior Sons Of America

$275 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Pottsville PA : 1854. Single sheet, 33 x 20 cm., docketed on verso. A few small holes from ink burn, else a good, legible copy. The application reads, in part: We the undersigned, free born 'Youths of America,' determined to advocate and maintain the principle, that politcal power and political offices, should be, of right, confined exclusively in the hands of Citizens by birth.... The petiton requests admission as a regular Camp of the Order, and is followed by a column of 20 signatures

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