[OHIO]
MEDARY, SAMUEL. The New Constitution. Columbus, Ohio: May-November 1849. A bound periodical, first edition thus, comprising Volume 1, nos. 1-26 (all published). 20th century cloth. 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (25.5 x 16.5 cm); with half-title, general title, iv, 408 pp. Stamp to title, bleed through of inked numerals on title verso, toning at gutter and corners of first leaves, otherwise clean; Together with the Convention Debates, titled Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention ... Columbus: S. Medary, 1851. Two volumes. 20th century cloth; And Constitution submitted by the Convention for adoption by the people of the state of Ohio on the third Tuesday of June 1851. Columbus: Scott & Bascom, 1851. First edition. 42, [1] pp. 20th century cloth. Stamps, the Debates with some wear to titles, the Constitution with an early signature but a very fine copy.
The New Constitution is a rare weekly periodical issued during Ohio's radical constitutional revision movement. Each issue was published under the motto "Power is always stealing from the many to the few." Samuel Medary was the publisher of a leading democratic newspaper in the state and this new periodical was designed to encourage interest in a constitutional convention, which convened in 1850 (the Convention Journal, also published by Medary, is present in the lot). The 1851 Ohio Constitution is rare in this form, with WorldCat reporting only seven institutional copies. Sabin 47293. The lot four volumes.