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A Minister Wallamannumps
Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Boston, 1856,
"A Minister." Wallamannumps; or, The Triumph of Religious Principles; by a Minister. Boston : Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, (1856). Pp. 270, frontis., including plates. 8vo, pressed brown cloth with gilt lettering anddecorations to spine. This volume - "not a simple product of invention" - that relates the tale of the descendants of two who emigrated to Rhode Island from Europe - one from France, Emile Cousin, whose "ruling element of his character being avarice ... and ambition", and one from Scotland, Jacob Patterson, a meek man who "could not rid himself of faith... nor would he" in order to garner greater property. Eventually, the Cousin family takes up residence along the shores of the Wallamannumps river in Massachusetts. Cousin's two sons take ahold of one thousand acres along the river's shore, and establish a factory tavern which features "pugilistic contests and nightly brawls", and leads to the Cousins growing "repugnance of religion". This runs afoul of the Wallamannumps-residing Norton family, strong on religiousconviction, upset that such sinful behavior has emerged in their community . The Nortons lead a movement to rid Wallamannumps of the tag as a place where "sin abounds, and religious institutions are evidently unpopular", in the hopes of getting the immoral Cousins to establishing a sabbath school and other religious institutions, and stop pushing vices on the residents of Wallamannumps. Norton's son Charles works in the Cousin factory, and is tempted "by every form of vice and degree of abuse" as a result of his parentsmoral drive. Eventually, the avaricious Cousins learn the folly of their w ays, after being forced into poverty after losing their business, Patterson's son in Rhode Island, whom they had besmirched several years earlier. Of nautical interest: Charles's deviation into vice (namely, drink), leads himto being "drugged" by a crimp in a Massachusetts port town after a night o f drinking, and put on board the whale ship Anaconda, to sail the North Pacific for five years (pp. 217-240), before he manages to escape the vessel and returns to America. Rubbed, spine ends nicked, edgeworn, inner hinges cracked, dampstain to fore-edge (not affecting text), drawings and pencillingto endpapers and pastedowns, else vg. An extremely scarce item, being not in the National Union Catalog. In neither the Hollis Harvard or the Orbis Yale catalogs. Indeed, a search of Google yielded zero results for this bookand odder still even the word "Wallamannumps"). 900.00
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900.00 CDN
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