[FEDERALISM] [SECESSION] Thoughts in a Series of Letters, in Answer to a Question Respecting the Division of the States

Published by [no publisher], [no place, likely Boston], 1813

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Octavo, 24pp. Removed, and wanting original wrappers. Original stitching gone, but still sound. Shallow burn marks to the top of the spine; faint staining; good only. A few possibly authorial ink corrections. Though published anonymously, Howes and Sabin attribute authorship to John Lowell, Jr. of Boston. A leading Federalist, he was concerned about the rapid grown of the US west of the Mississippi in the vast new Louisiana Territory. Concerned that the land and people would be too large and diverse to govern as a republic, he advocated that the Eastern states secede from the Union. Though this argument for secession was published a full half century before the Civil War and does not center the issue of slavery, it nevertheless evidences a very old strain of sectionalist thinking that no doubt influenced the tensions which led to the later conflict. Streeter 1594; Howes L534; Sabin 95669; American Imprints 29949.

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Title
[FEDERALISM] [SECESSION] Thoughts in a Series of Letters, in Answer to a Question Respecting the Division of the States
Author
A Massachusetts Farmer (John Lowell?)
Publisher
[no publisher], [no place, likely Boston]
Publication year
1813
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Good
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Softcover
Edition
First Edition.
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