Describing a plot of the British to exert "a controlling foreign influence, whose insidious design is thus to cause a dissolution of the Union and consequent prostration of the power of these United States--and the slavery question is only used as the most available means of ultimately attaining that object."
Signed: Shade of Washington.
The American Antiquarian Society copy has ms. corrections and is annotated in a contemporary hand: No. 1 [and] Published 17 August 1850; & reprinted 6 Oct 1856.
"All patriotic men and presses in the United States are requested to circulate this. No. 2 will appear shortly." Cf. Shade of Washington. To the President and people of the United States ... No. 2. ... Augusta, Ga., January 1st, 1860.
Text in three columns; printed area measures 37.8 x 25.0 cm.
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