Raynors HCA 2016-06
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Book, “ORATION, IN HONOR OF THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, AND THE PEACEABLE ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA, DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL, IN HARTFORD, ON THE 11th OF MAY, 1804,” printed for the General Committee of Republicans, From Sidney's Press, 1804. 24pp. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label. Foxed and lightly tanned, closed tears in gutter of leaves, partly untrimmed, VG. An influential address on the acquisition of Louisiana, highly partisan in outlook: "To federalists, this territory, for which they would have shed blood, now seems a barren waste, where no verdure quickens; but to us it appears fruitful, abounding in broad rivers and streams, producing whatever is necessary to our commerce with foreign nations." Shaw & Shoemaker distinguish two printings of this pamphlet, the other originating from [Hartford]. It is just possible that they are one and the same printing. - See more at: http://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM27029A/abraham-bishop/oration-in-honor-of-the-election-of-president-jefferson-and-the-peaceable-acquisition-of#sthash.w5pfrtIQ.dpuf
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