'The Union' newspaper, including States' rights, Slavery & the Missouri Compromise.

Philadelphia: 1820. Newspaper with report on the refutation of the Virginia resolutions by the legislature of the state of New Hampshire, specifically as to how the resolutions (which supported states' rights) would impact the extension of slavery to new states about to be admitted to the Union. (p4, cols 1 -3, total of 42 column inches).

The Legislature concludes that "the existence of slavery within the United States is a great moral as well as political evil, the toleration of which can be justified by necessity alone, and that the further extension of it ought to be prevented by the due exercise of the power vested in the General Government." (p4, col 3). The Missouri Compromise ultimately resulted in Missouri being admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state in order to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave owning and free states.

The newspaper also includes news on the construction of the Erie Canal, with the observation, "This canal will make a great revolution in the internal trade of the country, and in the balance of political power" (p1, col. 6); and "The White Bear Hunt and the Indians of Missouri" which describes the Pawnee tribe and their hunting expeditions at the head of the La Platte River for "that formidable animal, the white or grizly (sic) bear" (2, col. 3).

Advertising includes a three quarter page advertisement illustrated with woodcut for the catalogue of the "Philadelphia Drug and Family Medicine Warehouse" of Dr. T. W. Dyott, listing drugs, dye stuffs, patent medicines, and more.

With a period manuscript note at the top, "Wash. & Lee", likely for the Virginia university of that name, which would naturally have been interested in the ongoing discussion of the Virginia resolutions as they related to slavery and states' rights. Folio, 13 x 21", period fold. Overall toning, short splits at the side fold, not affecting text. Good + overall. Item #23876

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