Boardman. The American Union, in danger from Slavery & Abolitionists (1851)

Boardman, Henry A. The American Union: A Discourse delivered on Thursday, December 12, 1850, the Day of the Annual Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania, and repeated on Thursday, December 19, at the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851. Sixth Edition. [9357] 9 x 5 3/4, lacks the wrapper, 56 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet. After reviewing the history of the birth of the United States, Boardman treats with the possible dissolution of the Union over slavery. He blames both slaveholders and abolitionists. "There are, however - the fact cannot be disguised - parties actually at work in endeavoring to destroy the Union. A party at the South and another party at the North, the poles apart in their speculative views of the subject which agitates them, and inflamed with a bitter mutual hostility, have virtually joined hands for the purpose of demolishing this government. This is not, indeed, as to one of these parties, the ostensible object they have in view