The Past, The Present, and the Future

Washington DC: National Intelligencer, 1851. Reprint. Wraps. Fair. Stiched printed wraps. 40 pages. Printed in double columns. Outer front wrap is loose (but attached) and edge torn. Old blue institutional stamp on the front cover (New Bedford City Library). Occasional light brown spots to the text. Pages 11 and 12 have a closed tear. From the introduction: "A Resident in the South, and deeply concerned besides in all that relates to the interest, peculiar and general, of that region of country, having lately read, as they successively appeared in the National Intelligencer, a series of articles upon the Past, the Present, and the Future, and being deeply impressed with the facts which they embody, and with the historical sketches which connect them, has undertaken to collect and publish, at his own expense, a considerable number of copies of them in the shape in whuch they appear in this Pamphlet. His only object in doing this is to advance the cause of Truth, by diffusing among others the same information and instruction which he has himself derived from their perusal. Feb. 25, 1851."Contents of the letters are political and center over South Carolina. Topics cover Calhoun, Salvery, discintent with the Federal Government and more.