Sumner, Charles A. — Fact and Need: Statement As to Prevailing Repute and Appropriate Vindication

San Francisco, CA, Bacon & Company, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Twelve disbound pages laid into a card stock-backed sleeve, chipped along edges, comprising a lecture or address delivered to the Territorial Pioneers of the eventual State of California in San Francisco at the Pacific Hall. This was on the 27th anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. His Wikipedia page notes that Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) "was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery. He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871 . . . "Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good