Address of the Hon. Charles B. Penrose, Speaker of the Senate; and the Speeches of Messrs. Fraley (city), Williams, Pearson and Penrose, Delivered in the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the Subject of the Insurrection at Harrisburg at the Meeting of the Legislature in December, 1838
Harrisburg: Printed by E. Guyer, 1839.
Price: $350.00
Softcover. First edition. Stitched self-wrappers. 207pp. Untrimmed, unopened. Owner's name ("Hon. F. Jones, Cooper, Pa.") on first leaf, light age-toning and foxing, a nice, near fine copy. Report on the so-called "Buckshot War" when both the Whig and the Democratic parties claimed control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and a mob forced Penrose, Thaddeus Stevens, and Thomas H. Burrowes to escape from the Senate chamber through a window. The Pennsylvania Governor called out the militia, requisitioning buckshot and restoring order.
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