American temperance lecturer.- Favourite American temperance melodies

American temperance lecturer.- Favourite American temperance melodies, as sung by Josephus Cheaney, of Kentucky, U.S.A., broadside, woodcut decorative border, folds, a few mostly short splits, small ?wormholes / light staining to upper left corner, some marginal chipping / loss, little spotting, lightly browned, 277 x 203mm., [?London, Heywood & Co.], [c.1868]. *** Rare. WorldCat records one copy (BL) of an issue with a Heywood imprint. Cheaney seems to have toured England around 1870, billed as 'the American boy orator'. 'the temperance prodigy, Josephus Cheaney, a native of Henderson, and yet very young, lectured in Henderson. This natural orator, by no means handsome or beautiful, traveled in Europe and over the greater part of the United States, laboring from the rostrum, in the good cause of temperance, and yet, it was said, in his young days, that he possessed a keen relish for liquor straight, and could track a mint julep across the river' (Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky, 1887).

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