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FISK, THEOPHILUS. Our Country; Its Dangers and Destiny. An Address Delivered Before the Cadets of the Norwich University, at the Annual Commencement, August 20, 1840. Washington, D.C: Office of the United States Journal, 1845. 1st ed. 8vo. 16 pp. Removed. $175.00
R & B 45-2388. Fisk was a Jacksonian radical and a working man leader who later (1834-5) attracted attention by his Trade Union lectures in Boston. He was an anticapitalist and in 1837 delivered a July 4th address Labor the Only True Source of Wealth in Charleston, S.C., for which he was howled down and beaten. Apparently published in 1845 as a means of advertising The United States Journal and Fisk's new publication, the Democratic Expositor (pp. 13-16).