Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Newspaper, United States Gazette For The Country, Philadelphia, December 4, 1806, 4pp., disbound, paper is dry, VG.. From the front page is a 1/2 column PROCLAMATION signed in type by President Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison. On November 28, 1806, President Jefferson issued a proclamation stating that an unlawful military expedition against the dominions of Spain (Mexico) was planned. The proclamation indicated that conspirators were now fitting out and arming vessels in the western waters, collecting provisions, arms and seducing honest and well-meaning citizens, under various pretences, to participate in the expedition. Jefferson warned all persons to "withdraw from [the enterprise] without delay...as they will answer the same at their peril, and incur prosecution with all the rigors of the law." The proclamation urged all officers, civil and military, to take whatever steps they could to bring the offending persons to punishment. Although not named, Jefferson authorized his Secretary of the Navy to send a letter urging navy officials in New Orleans to help suppress the Aaron Burr expedition and, if possible, apprehend the conspirators
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