Item #58573 Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown, a Senator in Congress from the State of Mississippi.; Edited by M. W. Cluskey, Post-Master to the House of Representatives of the United States. Albert G. Brown.
Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown, a Senator in Congress from the State of Mississippi.; Edited by M. W. Cluskey, Post-Master to the House of Representatives of the United States.
Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown, a Senator in Congress from the State of Mississippi.; Edited by M. W. Cluskey, Post-Master to the House of Representatives of the United States.

Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown, a Senator in Congress from the State of Mississippi.; Edited by M. W. Cluskey, Post-Master to the House of Representatives of the United States.

Philadelphia, (PA): Jas. B. Smith & Co., 1859. First edition. 8vo. iv, [iii]-vi, [5]-614 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Brown; publisher's ads at the rear. Brown (1813-1880) served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1839-1841 and 1848-1853, as Governor of Mississippi, 1844-1848, and in the U.S. Senate, 1854-1861; during the Civil War, he served in the Confederate army and in the C.S. Senate. "[During his time in the Senate, Brown] was in the forefront of the more serious controversies. He opposed the Wilmot Proviso, the compromise measures of 1850, Know-Nothingism, and the Topeka constitution" (DAB). Sabin 8436. Contemporary sheep (rubbed), leather label and gilt rules on spine, marbled endpapers and edges. (#5812). Item #58573

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