A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
JAY, William.
$100.00
Item Number: 82412
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay’s classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
The son of Founding Father and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, William Jay was an enthusiastic proponent of a number of philanthropic enterprises and reforms, particularly antislavery and antiwar movements. He was removed from his position as the first judge of Westchester County in 1842 on account of his antislavery views and went on to draft the Constitution of the American Antislavery Society. He published four major political pamphlets throuhgout his career including War and Peace: the Evils of the First with a Plan for Securing the Last and A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
