Item #66594 REPLY TO A PAMPHLET ENTITLED "A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF MATTERS RELATING TO THE BANK OF MARYLAND," WITH AN EXAMINATION INTO SOME OF THE CAUSES OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF THAT INSTITUTION. Reverdy JOHNSON, John Glenn.

REPLY TO A PAMPHLET ENTITLED "A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF MATTERS RELATING TO THE BANK OF MARYLAND," WITH AN EXAMINATION INTO SOME OF THE CAUSES OF THE BANKRUPTCY OF THAT INSTITUTION.

Baltimore, [MD]: Printed by Jas. Lucas & E.K. Deaver, No. 19, S. Calvert Street, 1834. First edition. 24 cm. 54,(2), 51 pp. Sewn, untrimmed, with some fraying to edges. Some browning to text block, and faint old tidelines at margins. A reply to Evan Poultney's charges that his partners in Poultney, Ellicott & Co. were to blame for the failure of the Bank of Maryland in 1833. The famous trial followed. Reverdy Johnson later served as defense attorney in the Dred Scott Case. Kress C.3755. Item #66594

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