An Eulogium on rum

Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed in two columns; verso printed in three columns. Printed vertically beside title: 1837. 1839. At end of text on recto: Printed for the benefit of the Mass. Legislature. Subtitle of third poem: This monster ... was executed at Doyelstown [i.e. Doylestown] Penn. June 21, 1832: for the murder of ... Chapman. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints, 1830-1839. Imprint information from Howe bibliography in Proceedings Amer. Antiquarian Society, n.s. 60 (1950), p. 217-223. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), printed with his brother John (1783-1845) in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass. and published broadsides with his imprint in the 1830's. The town of Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816. Another broadside has The gray mare, with imprint "Printed by S. Howe, Enfield" on recto, Baily's poem and Apostrophe on verso. First line: Arise! ye pimpled, tippling race arise! First line of second poem: At length the cholera is come. First line of third poem: Mina! thy guilty race is run.