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(MISSISSIPPI). [MISSISSIPPI FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS]. Address of the Committee Appointed by the Friends of Southern Rights to the People of Mississippi, December 10th, 1850. Published by Order of the Central Rights Association. Jackson, [Mississippi]: Fall and Marshall, 1850. 1st ed. 8vo. 13 pp. Removed. Very good. $1,250.00
Very rare and bitter attack on the Compromise of 1850, by a Mississippi states' rights committee, including the governor of Mississippi, J.A. Quitman, arguing that alleged Southern gains from the Compromise are illusory as the North could not be expected to honor the Fugitive Slave Law, and new western territories would enter the Union as free states. Disclaiming disunion, the committee calls for the South to become united. Nonetheless, the following year, 1851, strong unionist sentiment caused Southern Rights candidates to suffer"staggering reverses." Not in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, although another work by the Committee is included. NUC locates one copy in North Carolina.