Sprague, William B. A Sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian Congregation in Albany, March 4, 1838 [Congressman Killed in a Duel]

Sprague, William B. A Sermon addressed to the Second Presbyterian Congregation in Albany, March 4, 1838, the Sabbath after intelligence was received that the Hon. Jonathan Cilley, Member of Congress from Maine, Had Been Murdered in a Duel with the Hon. William J. Graves, Member from Kentucky. Albany: Printed by Packard and Van Benthusen, 1838. 1st . Blue printed wrapper, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, center crease, 15 pp., unreadable inscription on front. Very good. Pamphlet.  [306]  The title on the wrapper is, "Doctor Sprague's Sermon, occasioned by the Late Tragical Deed at Washington." A sermon on I Timothy 2:1-2, on the duty to pray for civil rulers. Condemns dueling, "The story as it goes abroad is, that a man has fallen in a duel; but the truth as it is written in God's book is, that a man has been deliberately and wantonly murdered." Congressman Cilley accused James Watson Webb, a newspaper editor, of graft and receiving funds for supporting the Whigs and their efforts to not re-charter th