Speech Delivered By Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, Before The Whig State Convention, Assembled at the Music Hall, Boston. Aug. 16, 1854 de Quincy, Hon. Josiah Sr - 1854

Boston: Printed by John Wilson and son, 1854. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Stitched wraps. 9" x 6". 8 pages. Original tan paper outer wraps with printed title on the front cover present. Ex-library copy with "Department of Economics Brown University, Providence, R. I." stamped in blue ink top of the front wrap. Institutional numbers in pencil and an inscription regarding the fugitive Slave Act on the front cover. Inscribed by the author on the page 1 - "Miss Eliza Guild from her friend Josiah Quincy." Contents are about the Fugitive Slave Act. Quincy, not invited, breaks with the Whig Party at its convention. He condemns the removal of fugitive Slave Anthony Burns from Boston and the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a "Fraud." Quincy charged the Whigs with complicity. Quincy was an educator, legislator and President of Harvard University. Sabin 67242.