Presidents Message: Signed (3 results)
Published by New York, Printed and Published at the Office of the New York Evening Post, 1802
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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 pa…ge. 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.".
Published by Printed by Gales & Seaton 1819-1826, Washington, D.C, 1819
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Contact seller5-star sellerTwo rare printed pamphlets regarding President James Monroe's position on the prohibition of the Slave Trade. Octavo. In very good condition. Rare. During the course of his presidency, Monroe remained convinced that slavery was wrong and supported private manumission, yet at the same time insisted that any attempt to promote ema…ncipation would cause problems. Monroe believed that slavery had become a permanent part of southern life, and that it could only be removed on providential terms and like many other Upper South slaveholders, he believed that a central purpose of government was to ensure "domestic tranquility" for all. He feared for public safety in the United States during the era of violent revolution on two fronts. First, from potential class warfare of the French Revolution in which those of the propertied classes were summarily purged in mob violence and then preemptive trials, and second, from possible racial warfare similar to that of the Haitian Revolution in which blacks, whites, then mixed-race inhabitants were indiscriminately slaughtered as events there unfolded. In 1820, Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state but banned slavery from territories north of the parallel 36°30â north. He also became a member of the American Colonization Society, which sought to aid freed slaves in colonizing Africa.
More imagesPresident's message and accompanying documents: to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States
Davis, Jefferson; Confederate States of America. Congress; Confederate States of America. President
Published by Recreasoft, Paris, 2026
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Add to basketSoftcover. 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 Je…fferson 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.
