Item #27769 Review of the Speech of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of the City of Boston, Delivered at a Public Meeting of the Friends of the Protecting System, in that city, in the Support of the Nomination of a Friend of that System, for a Member of Congress. By a Citizen of Boston. Citizen of Boston, pseud.

Review of the Speech of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of the City of Boston, Delivered at a Public Meeting of the Friends of the Protecting System, in that city, in the Support of the Nomination of a Friend of that System, for a Member of Congress. By a Citizen of Boston.

Boston: Printed by Beals and Homer, 1831. 40 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A good copy, penned numerals on title, stain to bottom edge at inner margin, not affecting text, mail fold, small holes on last 2 leaves affecting a few letters. Sabin 70271. Shaw & Shoemaker 8969. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 27175.17. Item #27769

Perhaps written by David Henshaw (1791-1852), Collector of the Port of Boston and Massachusetts State Senator. Henshaw was a strong Free Trade Democrat who here attacks Otis' support of tariffs.

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