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

by Texas, William Ellery Channing

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition. 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound, stitchmarks. Some light spotting but a very good copy of this interesting pamphlet. Signed W.A. Whitehead. Sabin 11912. Item #19909 Channing believed that the annexation would be disastrous for the Union, from extending and perpetuating slavery, worrying that extending the borders might loosen the fabric of the nation, and would “exert a disastrous influence

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