Extravagant and wasteful expenditure of the people's money. Fellow citizens -- it is well known to you all, that our state has received a part of our proportion of the surplus funds of the Union, created by the sales of the public lands...
[Newport: publisher not identified, 1837.]. Folio broadside (approx. 13¾" x 12"), text in triple column under the running head, signed at the end of the third column "Brenton" and dated August 21, 1837; a touch of creasing in the margins; near fine. Protests the use of funds generated by sales..... More