[Rarebooks] FS: Cambridge 1816 Massachusetts Peace Society Circular Letter

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A Circular Letter from the Massachusetts Peace Society, Respectfully 
Addressed to the Various Associations, Prebysteries, Assemblies, and 
Meetings of the Ministers of Religion in the United States.

Printed in Cambridge by Hilliard and Metcalf in 1816.

A 12-page circular letter and a 4-page Constitution of the Society, 
which had been founded the previous year by Thomas Dawes, William 
Phillips, Elisha Ticknor, Thomas Wallcut and Noah Worcester. Worcester 
is credited as the author of this text, which addresses clergymen 
throughout the Commonwealth and asks troubling questions such as, when 
both sides in a war pray to God to be on their side, what’s God to do? 
The MPS lasted until 1828, when it joined other like-minded societies 
and merged into the American Peace Society. High-minded as it was, the 
Society had its pragmatic moments- it supported the Civil War as being a 
just action against the criminal enterprises of slaveholding and 
secession.

Disbound pamphlet. 5”x8.25”, 16 pages. Some foxing and soil, minor wear. 
[48880]  $25

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