(COBB, Howell, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, and John H, Lumpkin)

To Our Constituents [caption title]

(Washington, DC): Towers, Printer, 1849. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Answering Senator Calhoun’s recent charge that :foretold disaster from the continuance of the existing scheme of politics and called for unity in holding Southern rights paramount over party allegiance” (DAB), the four congressmen, two from Georgia (Cobb and Lumpkin) and two from Kentucky (Boyd and Clarke) here urge standing fast with the Democratic Party [viewed by Calhoun as controlled by Northern interests]. De Renne catalogue, Vol. II, p. 521. OCLC: “Reply to John C. Calhoun’s address of January 22, 1849 [“To the People of the South on the Exciting Question of Slavery”], favoring the maintenance of a nation-wide Democratic Party.” Original printed self-wrappers. A bit of foxing, but a very good, unopened and untrimmed copy. Item #65996

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