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Title: Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States. With the eulogy delivered before the legislature of New York.
Author: William H. Seward
Publisher: Derby, Miller and Company, Auburn, New York
Published: 1849
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 404
Catalogs: Presidents, American History, Abolition
: Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Spine edges are cracked and frayed, and tips are exposed. Blank pages before title pages have been removed, but title page with tissue-protected frontispiece is intact. Stitching visible in places, but strong. Pages are foxed, but otherwise unmarked. This is a biography of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), including his early life in Braintree, Massachusetts, his education in law, appointment as minister to the Hague, his marriage, appointment to the senate, his work as minister to Russia, appointment as Secretary of State, nomination and election to the presidency, his administration and correspondence, his efforts concerning the abolition of slavery and his work on behalf of the Amistad slaves, his policies toward and interactions with American Indians, and more. This volume, completed in the year following Adams’s death, also includes Seward’s eulogy delivered to the legislature of New York. William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. He was an abolitionist and opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Seward was, according to the publishers of this book, busy enough in his work to delay the publication of this volume and required the assistance of a ghostwriter for its completion. Contains fragment of pink silk bookmark. Hardcover, good condition. 404 pages, 12mo.
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