A signfiicant early imprint of The Liberty Party. Folks like Gerrit Smith and other influential abolitionists felt William Lloyd Garrison was wrong in leaving the cause to moral suasion alone. Having formed The Liberty Party, this new, more aggressive approach was three pronged. And this, their first tract, makes all three arguments. There was the economic case, i.e. that slavery was actually counter-productive to the economy; the moral case, here made apparently by Gerrit Smith himself and including his "objections" added at the end; and the legal / constitutional case, here made by John McLean, the prominent anti-slavery Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who would ultimately write the dissenting opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford [1857].
Frederick Douglass also joined their ranks, and Liberty Tract #2 makes repeated mention of Douglass.
The Liberty Party would ultimately be absorbed into the Free Soil Party and ultimately become the Republican Party. A very significant early articulation of what would ultimately become the Party of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
We trace not a single example in the trade or having ever been offered at auction at the time of cataloging.
[Gerrit Smith, Liberty Party, Anti-Garrisonianism] Liberty Tract for July, 1843.---No. I. Facts for the People. Boston. 1843. 8pp.
A good example in original full, uncut sheet, torns at folds, some handling and marginal tears, awkwardly spaced on sheets.
