The Genius and Posture of America. An Oration Delivered before the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857, by William Rounseville Alger.
Boston: Office Boston Daily Bee, 1857. 60 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. About very good with wrappers torn several inches along spine, front wrapper with two small tears along bottom edge and a closed tear along fore edge, owner's name on top edge, text clean. Sabin 757. LCP. Afro-Americana 222 (2nd). Item #35532
William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) attended Harvard Divinity School from 1844-1847, was a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Mass., where he served until 1855, was a member of the Free Masons. and an active abolitionist and this speech created quite a stir: "The fierce clamor of the slaveholding interest for more room, fresh prey, new chains and whips, and a longer lease of power drowns the voices of the Revolutionary Fathers, vilified the Declaration of Independence, incenses the country, disgraces the age, and insults the world." Preface and appendix.
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