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To the President and people of the U. States. I here present to you what I deem important political disclosures of a standing foreign policy, designed to prostrate the power of these United States
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To the President and people of the U. States. [electronic resource] : I here present to you what I deem important political disclosures of a standing foreign policy, designed to prostrate the power of these United States.
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[Augusta, Ga.? : s.n., 1856]
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1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 44 x 36 cm.
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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.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 9698).
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Shade of Washington, no. 1.
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English
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June 17, 2008
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