1832 YOUTH'S COMPANION. Slavery, Eternal Life Society, Dueling, Cholera, John James Audubon, &c.

Very scarce run of just over 6 months of one of America's earliest periodicals for the young; superb content ranging from the emergence of South Carolina's leadership of the "Confederacy," to unique religious movements like the "Eternal Life Society." Time well spent reading this one. 

A very rare early contribution by famed American naturalist, John James Audubon.

The Youth's Companion and Weekly Family Visitor. September 15, 1832 through March 23, 1833. Volume I. Issues 25-52. New York. School Book Depository. 96-208pp.

Contents include:

*Notes on Jails

*The Indian War [ Neaporte, a Sac Chief and the Indian Prophet, Winnebago, Captured]

*Brady the Bushranger by John Moore [serialized]

*The Volcano at Kirauea [Hawaii / Sandwich Islands]

*The African Colony at Liberia [Slavery, Abolition, Colonization Society]

*The Plain Dress Society

*Valley Forge

*A Singular Case of Mental Aberration

*Religious Fanaticism

*Account of a Hurricane by John Audubon [Early original contribution by John James Audubon; seems to have been submitted for publication to the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal the same year; a biography of Audubon was issued in the present periodical in the next year's issues.]

*The Cholera [Richmond, Virginia]

*The Hero of the Plague

*Incident in the Life of a Rascal

*A Distressing Scene in Greenland

*Revenge and Magnanimity - A Tale of the Cholera

*Passages from the Diary of a Physician. The Thunder Struck [series]

*Dueling

*The Comet

*Another Missionary Gone - Death of Bro. Hervey at Bombay, India.

*Ethan Allen and His Daughter

*Cholera in London

*Cholera at the West

*The Call of Spirit to Matter

*Dr. Beecher in New York [Lyman Beecher]

*Burning of the Richmond Theatre in the Year 1811

*Whiskey Banished from the Army

*Cholera Laying Waste to New Orleans [unburied dead fill the streets, etc.]

*Interesting Communication from Liberia

*Cholera in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, etc.

*The Spirit Language [fascinating account of a Christian woman with a message from her deceased mother-in-law for the family upon her death bed].

*South Carolina State Convention Raises and Militia and Declares itself a "Confederacy"

*Captain Morrell's Visit to a Slave Ship 

*The President Declares South Carolina in Violation of the Constitution

*A Dreadful Catastrophe. Loss of the United States Frigate Constellation, with Nearly Soul on Board.

*A Full-Page Broadside "The Carrier's Address to the Patrons of the Youth's Companion." 

*Hymn by John Newton [Early American appearance]

*A South Sea Rookery

*Murder

*Georgia Missionaries 

*Anti-Christian Societies

*Biela's Comet

*The Rahway N. J. Murder

*Premonition of Death

*The "Endless Life Society." Curious story of a group who professed to rise to moral and physical perfection who, convinced they would never die, requested a large appropriation of land from the Federal Government where they could "dwell forever." 

*Curious Experiment on a Rattlesnake

*Fossil Remains of a Mastadon

*Conversion and Martyrdom of a Turk

*Confessions of an Unreformed Drunkard

*Hereditary Drunkenness

*African Colonization, etc. etc.

Rare early children's periodical in large format, near folio. Stained, foxed, a few tears, one cross-wise through the page with no losses, one at margin with some light textual loss [though not obstructing the meaning]. No binding, but clearly bound at one time.