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- GLC#
- GLC06994
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1827
- Author/Creator
- Turnbull, Robert J., fl. 1827
- Title
- The Crisis: or essays on the usurpations of the Federal government. By Brutus
- Place Written
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 166 p. : Height: 21.2 cm, Width: 13.7 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Inscribed by "The author" to Stephen Elliot on cover wrapper and signed again at the bottom of the dedication page. First edition. Turnbull became the leader of the nullification movement in the South and, after his untimely death in 1833, was succeed by Robert Barnwell Rhett. DAB notes "It is doubtful if the thinking of the people of any state has ever been more influenced by a single publication as was that of South Carolina by this work." The Crisis p. 137, Howes T420.
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