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. Removed rom a larger volume and lacking wrappers, else very good, text clean. Sabin 757. LCP. Afro-Americana 222 (2nd). Item #46436
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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