Pound Jesse (2 results)

Wrappers. First Edition. Illustrations in colour and black-and-white Fine copy An exhibition based largely on the personal collection of Robert A. Wilson, the noted bookseller, bibliographer and sometime proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20, [4] Stanford and Sword ads; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. From the Universalist Union, volume 10, p. 480: "An account is extensively published in the papers, to the effect, that a Mr. Danforth of Newburyport, Mass., accused Mr. Gough, the distinguished temperance lecturer, of drinking beer. This accusation was promptly ferreted out by Mr. Gough, and Mr. D., is it it said, publicly retracted and paid costs of proceedings, etc. "Now there is another matter in which we have been surprised that Mr. Goff has not been equally prompt. We have seen a pamphlet of 20 octavo pages entitled The Echo of Truth to the Voice of Slander: or, John B. Gough's Early History. This pamphlet has the name of the Reverend Jesse Pound, minister of St. Matthews Church in New York attached to it as author or compiler; is sent forth by the very respectable and responsible house of Stanford and Swords of this city, and certainly in our estimation, contains representations against Mr. G's moral character darker than that of drinking beer. This pamphlet has now been before the public some two or three months, and so far as we have noticed, no attention has been paid to it by Mr. G. Why is this? Can it be possible that Mr. G has never seen it? Should not some of his more immediate friends have furnished him a copy ere this, and insisted upon an inquiry into the facts of the case? If the allegations are false Truth - the cause of temperance - every principle of right - demands that they should be reported as promptly as the accusation against him of drinking beer; and the propagators of such outrageously libelous matter be made a public example of." American Imprints 5331; Sabin 64728.