[drop-title] Grand Rally in Behalf of the Producing Interests! Call for a National Convention

[Sherwood, Lorenzo] National Cheap-Freight Railway League

Published by National Cheap-Freight Railway League, 1868

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Octavo. 16 pp. First edition. Unbound, folded sheet forming 8 leaves. Small NY State Library stamp on the margin of the first page with a small withdrawal stamp in the margin of the last. Some soiling to the outer leaves. Announces a convention to be held at Cincinnati on May 19, 1868 and promotes Lorenzo Sherwood's candidacy for President. The League was an attempt to combat the railroad monopoly and thereby to reduce fares for freight. Sherwood (1810-1869), a legislator, lawyer, abolitionist, and political nonconformist spent 10 years in Texas prior to the Civil War working as an attorney representing shipping and freight concerns. The outset of the war found him in New York on business where he stayed. An outspoken abolitionist and advocate of extreme versions of Reconstruction (including military occupation of the South), he was a notable figure of the time. Much of the text here consists of newspaper extracts, many from the Washington Great Republic, touting the organization activities and Sherwood's candidacy. Oxford American National Biography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [drop-title] Grand Rally in Behalf of the Producing Interests! Call for a National Convention
• Publisher: National Cheap-Freight Railway League
• Publication Date: 1868
• Binding: Unbound
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good+ binding
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Pamphlets