Lumpkin, Wilson.

THE REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS FROM GEORGIA; INCLUDING [LUMPKIN'S]SPEECHES IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS ON THE INDIAN QUESTION, ASREPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR FROM GEORGIA; HIS OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE ONTHE REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES DURING HIS TWO TERMS AS GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA,AND LATER AS UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER TO THE CHEROKEES, 1827-1841;TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CONDUCT WHILE HOLDING MANY PUBLICOFFICES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA, AND THE UNITED STATES, PRIOR TO1827, AND AFTER 1841.

Dodd, Mead (Wormsloe, GA: Privately printed), NY: 1907. First edition, 1/500 copies. Howes L-567. De Renne III, p. 1055. Harwell Georgiana 93 (not mentioning the portraits): Invaluable source of biographical material on Lumpkin, one of the prime movers of antebellum Georgia. As Governor, Senator and Indian Commissioner, his obsession was eliminating Indians from the state. His reasons were essentially economic; land for expansion was necessary for agricultural growth of the state." 4to. 2 volumes: 369, 328pp. Half-titles. Lacks two portraits called for by Howes and De Renne. Later leather-simulating cloth, gilt title on spines, marbled endpapers; repairs in margins of several leaves, else very good.

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