[Rarebooks] FS: July 4 1851 Portland Maine Protest?

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new Fourth of July catalog
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog380.pdf>

1851 Fourth of July Portland Maine Temperance Watchmen Letter.

A printed letter dated June 16, 1851, urging all members of the Portland 
area Temperance Watchmen to attend the Fourth of July festivities, and 
warning that anti-Temperance forces are conspiring to keep people away. 
It seems that the Portland city government had planned a large and 
varied 4th of July celebration long in advance, but then the state 
legislature passed a stringent new liquor law. Somehow the wrath of 
opponents of the law fell, at least in part, on the Portland Fourth of 
July celebration- “they are active in an underhanded manner, to cause 
the celebration to prove a failure, thereby bringing reproach and 
ridicule upon its projectors.”

Single sheet. 7.75”x9.75”. Folds, minor soil. With- the 
elaborately-printed envelope the letter came in. Minor soil and wear.  
[43567]  $175

See illustrations ->
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog380.pdf>


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