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Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law

Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law by E.C [?]

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Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law
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E.C [?]
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[Boston?: 1850 or 1851?]. Lithograph, 10” x 14.375” plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, light foxing to margins. A scarce and vivid lithograph illustrating the tensions surrounding the passage of the fugitive slave law. The Library of Congress provides an excellent description of this evocative print: “A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (left) holds a slave woman in one arm and points a pistol toward a burly slave catcher mounted on the back of Daniel Webster. The slave catcher, wielding a noose and manacles, is expensively dressed, and may represent the federal marshals or commissioners authorized by the act (and paid) to apprehend and return fugitive slaves to their owners. Behind Garrison a black man also aims a pistol toward the group on the right, while another seizes a cowering slaveholder by the hair and is about to whip him saying, ‘It’s my turn now Old Slave Driver.’ Garrison: ‘Don’t be alarmed Susanna, you’re safe enough.’ Slave catcher: ‘Don’t back out Webster, if you do we’re ruind.’ Webster, holding ‘Constitution’: ‘This, though Constitutional, is extremely disagreeable.’ Man holding volumes ‘Law & Gospel’: ‘We will give these fellows a touch of South Carolina.’ Man with quill and ledger: ‘I goes in for Law & Order.’ A fallen slaveholder: ‘This is all your fault Webster.’ In the background is a Temple of Liberty flying two flags, one reading ‘A day, an hour, of virtuous Liberty, is worth an age of Servitude’ and the other, ‘All men are born free & equal.’ The print may (as Weitenkampf suggests) be the work of New York artist Edward Williams Clay. The signature, the expressive animation of the figures, and especially the political viewpoint are, however, uncharacteristic of Clay. (Compare for instance that artist’s “What’s Sauce for the Goose,” no. 1851-5.) It is more likely that the print was produced in Boston, a center of bitter opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 and 1851.” REFERENCES: Weitenkampf, pp. 102–103; Reilly, B. American Political Prints, 1766–1876, pp. 344–45; “Practical illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law” at the Library of Congress online.
The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, Maid be King James the First, and His Successours Kinges of Scotland: Visied, collected and extracted furth of the Register. (5 works in 1 volume.)

The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, Maid be King James the First, and His Successours Kinges of Scotland: Visied, collected and extracted furth of the Register. (5 works in 1 volume.)

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The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, Maid be King James the First, and His Successours Kinges of Scotland: Visied, collected and extracted furth of the Register. (5 works in 1 volume.)
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Edinburgh: Imprented be Robert Walde-grave prenter to the Kinges Majestie, 15. Martii, Anno Dom. 1597, 1597 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. With a later owner's name in ink on blank verso of title, "Robert Dalryample, 1733." 5 works in 1 volume. Quarto. 10¼x7 inches. Folios [3], 1-162, 1-178, [20], [1], 40. [4] + 17 pages + leaves [24], [2], 34, folding genealogical table (some repair to verso), [78]. Numerous historiated initials as well as decorative chapter head and tail pieces. Coats of Arms to titles, a few neat contemporary ink annotations throughout. Repair to portion of fore-edge of D1 and D2. Two-inch circular repair to blank portion of primary title. A few pages misnumbered, but collated complete. Newer binding of half polished calf, brown cloth sides, crimson morocco spine label. A fine copy. The legislative record of the Scots parliament, included in which is the first Scots law dictionary ("De verborum significatione") of ancient Scottish legal terms, complied by Sir John Skene. This important work is bound with Laws and Acts of Parliament (Edinburgh, 1611); The XXI Parliament (1612); The XXII Parliament (1617); and The XXIII Parliament (1621). Includes early futile attempts at prohibiting golf and football. As the popularity of golf threatened to eclipse the more useful practice of archery, the parliament decreed that the "fute-bal and golfe be utterly cryed downe, and not to be used" (Section 65; folio 41, 1457 Parliament). Also, section 32 (folio 83, third Parliament of 1491) states, "Fute-ball and golfe forbidden" and goes on to state, "It is ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used fute-ball, golfe, or other sik unprofitable sportes, for the common gud of the Realme & defense thereof."..

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