Exhibit of the shocking oppression and injustice suffered for sixteen months by John Randel, Jun. Esq., contractor for the eastern section of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, from Judge Wright, engineer in chief, and the majority of the board of directors : (among other things by the gross and palpable violation of the contract, in the iniquitous reduction of the prices which were fixed when that instrument was signed, sealed and delivered) : whereby the contractor has been ruined, the completion of that great national work will be very considerably delayed, and the interests of the state and of the stockholders of course materially injured / by the Author of An appeal to the stockholders [i.e., Mathew Carey].

Author/creator Carey, Mathew
Other author Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842.
Format Electronic
Edition3rd ed., improved.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : [s.n.], 1825.
Description24 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteFinance.
Local note2012AH33000.
General noteCriticizing the conduct of the engineer in chief and the majority of the board for their hostility towards and dismissal of the contractor, John Randel.
General notePreface signed (p. 7): "M.C." [i.e., Mathew Carey].
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 10889.

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