1800 COLONEL JOSEPH B. VARNUM. On Militias, Liberty, Educated Electorate, American Revolution, etc. Evangelist 96pp + catalogue

96pp + catalogue

in many ways

for whom he felt nothing but contempt

first Scottish edition

1800 COLONEL JOSEPH B. VARNUM. On Militias, Liberty, Educated Electorate, American Revolution, etc. Evangelist 96pp + catalogueAn important and rare discourse by the first successful abolitionist politician in Congress. He later crafted and pushed through the 1807 law abolishing the international slave trade in the United States. A fascinating and rousingly pro American discourse covering the "arbitrary and oppressive" nature of governments which divest a majority of the people of their sovereignty." "The system of government established in the United States, under which we