1845 Providence And Pawtucket Advertiser HENRY CLAY Praised/ GUNS, Marcus Morton

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Offered here is an issue of Manufacturers And Farmers Journal And Providence And Pawtucket Advertiser, Providence, Monday, November 3, 1845, published by Knowles Vose & Anthony, 18 1/2" x 24" (folded sheet); 4pp.  Front page articles on the Oregon / Texas questions, Marcus Morton [his views on abolition make him unfit for President Polk's appointment], and a fine, brief tribute to statesman Henry Clay:  "Resolved, That in triumph or disaster, in glory or gloom, there is one American Statesman whom we can never cease to regard with a confidence and love allied to veneration; that, in the great calamity of last November, while our first thoughts were of our Country, our second were to him; and since then, whenever gladdened by tidings which assure us that the reign of shuffling incompetency and mousing mediocrity approaches its end, our hearts instinctively prompt the exclamation, 'Here's to you, Harry Clay !' ", with much national/ foreign news, period ads [including a fine ad for guns], etc.
Disbound, folds, minor edge wear (few small edge tears/ small spine breaks), small ink blot in Banner/ light toning-- overall very good.