A Review of "A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster, Preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, October 31, 1852, by Theodore Parker, Minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston."
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1853. 89 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Wrappers chipped, edges darkened, tear to top corner of title page, offsetting on two pages, else leaves clean; overall a good+ or better copy. Sabin 36924. LCP Afro-Americana 9775. Item #27433
Presentation copy (only first name remains) signed "With the Respects of the Author." Theodore Parker was a New England Transcendentalist and anti-slavery activist. Stearns felt Parker's sermon pernicious: "By an unheard of ferocity of attack upon the dead man's fame in a funeral sermon this man has put himself beyond the pale of conventional protection. He has shown no mercy to the dead, we shall show none to him living."
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