Presidents Message: Signed (4 results)

First separate edition of Hamilton's analysis of Jefferson's first Annual Message to Congress which first appeared in the Evening Post, under the signature of Lucius Crassus. Howes H112. Octavo, bound in quarter morocco. Association copy, from the library of American jurist James Kent with his ownership signature to the title page. American jurist, New York legislator and legal scholar James Kent was part of the same legal elite in New York as Hamilton, and an ardent Federalist and admirer of both Hamilton and Jay. At the time of the present publication, he sat on the bench of the New York Supreme Court, where he was shortly to become chief judge. He wrote admiringly of Hamilton "He was blessed with a very amiable, generous, tender, and charitable disposition, and he had the most artless simplicity of any man I ever knew. It was impossible not to love as well as respect and admire him. He was perfectly disinterested. The selfish principle, that infirmity too often of great as well as of little minds, seemed never to have reached him. He was a most faithful friend to the cause of civil liberty throughout the world, but he was a still greater friend to truth and justice" (James Kent, 1832). In near fine condition. A significant association copy. Thomas Jefferson presented his first Annual Message to Congress in writing by way of a clerk on December 8, 1801. He did not speak it to the 7th United States Congress, because he thought that would make him seem like a king, remarking "Whilst we devoutly return thanks to the beneficent Being who has been pleased to breathe into them the spirit of conciliation and forgiveness, we are bound with peculiar gratitude to be thankful to Him that our own peace has been preserved through so perilous a season, and ourselves permitted quietly to cultivate the earth and to practice and improve those arts which tend to increase our comforts.".…

Printed newspaper extra. Folio sheet, 22.5 x 17 in., printed on both sides, in six columns of dense text and employing large display type at the head. Signed in type at the end by Andrew Jackson, Washington, 7th December, 1835. A printing of Andrew Jackson's "Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, December, 1835," occupying the better part of ten columns, the remaining text includes ship news and arrivals for Boston in early December, plus goods available to the Boston Market, and Prices Current, and four small advertisements. Some chipping to left margin, with no loss of text, short, two closed tears across one column, but all legible. President Jackson addresses various issues including diplomatic relations, the state of public finances, sales of public lands, suggestions for closing the Bank of the United States once its charter expires in March 1836, Indian removal "to a country west of Missouri and Arkansas," etc. No listings found on OCLC for a Boston edition.…

Printed newspaper extra, 20 1/2 x 19 in. Single sheet, printed on both sides, in 5 columns of dense text, and employing large display type at the head. Signed in type at the end by Andrew Jackson, December 1, 1834. Old fold lines, some browning along folds, old tears neatly repaired (affecting a few words), a few small holes. President Jackson's State of the Union message to both Houses of Congress at the opening of their session. He reports on the success of U.S. diplomatic relations with various countries of Europe and Latin America, aside from some difficulties over a treaty with France. He reports a positive balance in the Treasury. "Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign Powers, the present may be hailed as that epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy, which shall be best calculated to give stability to our republic." He mentions the Bank of the United States, originally created for the convenience of the Government and now a "scourge of the people," and asserts his opposition to it. Jackson also discusses dealing with Native American tribes in the West. Regarding the predatory tribes inhabiting the Mexican borderlands: "Colonel Dodge, and the troops under his command, have acted with equal firmness and humanity, and an arrangement has been made with those Indians, which it is hoped will secure their permanent pacific arrangements with the United States and the other tribes of Indians upon that border." In reference to relocation of eastern tribes: "Arrangements are in progress for the removal of the Creeks, and will soon be for the removal of the Seminoles. I regret that the Cherokees east of the Mississippi have not yet determined to remove." Not recorded separately on OCLC.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 88 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1862. Official Confederate States imprint issued in 1862, containing the President's message together with accompanying documents for the Senate and House of Representatives. Signed and dated by Jefferson Davis in Richmond on August 15, 1862, with the President's message of August 19, 1862 included. An important historical document for Civil War, Confederate government, and 19th-century American political history. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…