Eight Dollars a Day. Written & Dedicated to the Congress of the U.S.
Boston, Massachusetts: Olivery Ditson, 1848. Folio, 14 x 10 ½ inches, 5 pp. The sheet for the anti-politician polemic “Eight Dollars a Day", which was apparently a crowd favorite at the Hutchinson Family’s performances. The song lambastes the political class and its waste, insinuating, among other things, that the politicians.....

