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Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09346 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 2 January 1860 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

"Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow." Maryland pro-slavery broadside with two columns of text in verse, dealing with the political troubles of the day, including a section ridiculing abolitionist John Brown, who had been executed after his raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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