Item #36060 Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852. Stephen A. Douglas.

Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852.

n.p. n.p., 1852. 8 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy with browning to edges, faint foxing on a few leaves, mail fold. LCP. Afro-Americana 3212. Item #36060

Support for the Democratic candidate Pierce against the Whig Winfield Scott in the Presidential Campaign. Douglas argued that a professional Army officer, such as Scott, should not be president of a free Republic and noted the Whigs' nativist policies.

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