1856 ISRAEL WASHBURN. Rare on Republican View of Slavery & Country by Founding Member of the Party. Presbyterian A very finely preserved example

A very finely preserved example from this fine press

he resisted it

which had been the site of significant Baptist sentiment in the 17th century

“He spoke audibly to Adam in paradise

1856 ISRAEL WASHBURN. Rare on Republican View of Slavery & Country by Founding Member of the Party. Presbyterian A very finely preserved exampleOriginally a member of the Whig Party, Israel Washburn, by 1854 he no longer viewed the Party as in the best interest of the Country. Angry over the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act, Washburn called a meeting of 30 members of the U. S. House of Representatives to discuss forming what became the Republican Party. Republican gatherings had taken place in Wisconsin and Michigan earlier in the year, but Washburn's meeting was the first in the U. S.