The Lost President by Ruth Dunley (Hardback Book)

Name: The Lost President by Ruth Dunley (Hardback Book)
Brand: University of Georgia Press

University of Georgia Press

Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811\u201365), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape. Smith\u2019s Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, wound westward to the Ohio and Wisconsin frontier, southward to the federally occupied Sea Islands of South Carolina, and finally ended aboard a northbound steamer.\nIn Ohio, Smith became involved with a paramilitary group, the Hunters\u2019 Lodge, which elected him the \""President of the Republic of Canada.\"" In Wisconsin he achieved notoriety as the judge who dared to declare the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 unconstitutional, lighting one of many fuses that sparked the Civil War. In South Carolina he\n\nThe Lost President\nA. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK deli;