Lot of 5. Memorial of the Merchants of the Town of Boston in the State of Massachusetts. February 3, 1806. Washington: A. & G. Way, printers, 1806. 12mo, disbound, 17pp. The merchants inform the President and Congress: "While [we] have witnessed,... the insults and barbarities which the commerce of these states has sustained from the cruisers of France and Spain, it is [our] object, in the present memorial, to confine [our] animadversions to the more alarming, because more numerous, and extensive detentions and condemnations of American vessels, by Great Britain;..." England had been engaged for decades in the impressment of American sailors to man her warships. Now she stated (according to the memorial) "that she had a right to interdict all commerce, by neutrals, to the ports of her enemies.... that if she permits a trade with them, in any degree, she has a right to prescribe the limits of it; ..." etc. The merchants had been losing their sailors, now they were losing their ships and cargo. They could envision a time when overseas trade would be impossible. All of this, of course, would contribute to the War of 1812, but before it even got that far, Congress would pass the Embargo Act of 1807, which would be almost as devastating as the European harassment that triggered it. Remarks of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, in Reply to Senator Collamer, on Kansas Territorial Affairs. Washington: Union Office, printers, 1856. 8vo, disbound, 29pp. From nearly the moment of creation, Kansas and Missouri were at war. By the summer of 1856, it was open warfare. Before it ended in 1859, 56 people had died in what Horace Greeley termed "Bleeding Kansas." Communication from Senators George H. Williams and H.W. Corbett on the Oregon Indian War Claims of 1855-56... (Edited by Philo Callender) Washington: 1868. Speech of Hon. W.H. West Delivered in the Ohio House of Representatives, January, 1863, on Military Arrests. [Presume Columbus, 1863], 8vo, no wraps, stitched signatures, 12pp. With the nation at war, arrests and detainments (without trial), suspensions of habeas corpus, and other apparent infringements of personal rights were increasing. Mr. West defends Lincoln's right to do these and more under martial law. The President takes an oath to keep the nation safe, Mr. West argues, and if that means temporary suspension of individual rights while the nation is in jeopardy, so be it. He is, after all, commander-in-chief. Jackson, Andrew (President 1829-1837). Annual Message of the President of the United States, to the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Opening of the Second Session of the Twenty-third Congress. Washington: Blair & Rives, printer, 1834. 8vo, untrimmed, no wraps, 16pp. Condition: Edge scuffing and surface soil on most. Some toning.
Lot of 5. Memorial of the Merchants of the Town of Boston in the State of Massachusetts. February 3, 1806. Washington: A. & G. Way, printers, 1806. 12mo, disbound, 17pp. The merchants inform the President and Congress: "While [we] have witnessed,... the insults and barbarities which the commerce of these states has sustained from the cruisers of France and Spain, it is [our] object, in the present memorial, to confine [our] animadversions to the more alarming, because more numerous, and extensive detentions and condemnations of American vessels, by Great Britain;..." England had been engaged for decades in the impressment of American sailors to man her warships. Now she stated (according to the memorial) "that she had a right to interdict all commerce, by neutrals, to the ports of her enemies.... that if she permits a trade with them, in any degree, she has a right to prescribe the limits of it; ..." etc. The merchants had been losing their sailors, now they were losing their ships and cargo. They could envision a time when overseas trade would be impossible. All of this, of course, would contribute to the War of 1812, but before it even got that far, Congress would pass the Embargo Act of 1807, which would be almost as devastating as the European harassment that triggered it. Remarks of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, in Reply to Senator Collamer, on Kansas Territorial Affairs. Washington: Union Office, printers, 1856. 8vo, disbound, 29pp. From nearly the moment of creation, Kansas and Missouri were at war. By the summer of 1856, it was open warfare. Before it ended in 1859, 56 people had died in what Horace Greeley termed "Bleeding Kansas." Communication from Senators George H. Williams and H.W. Corbett on the Oregon Indian War Claims of 1855-56... (Edited by Philo Callender) Washington: 1868. Speech of Hon. W.H. West Delivered in the Ohio House of Representatives, January, 1863, on Military Arrests. [Presume Columbus, 1863], 8vo, no wraps, stitched signatures, 12pp. With the nation at war, arrests and detainments (without trial), suspensions of habeas corpus, and other apparent infringements of personal rights were increasing. Mr. West defends Lincoln's right to do these and more under martial law. The President takes an oath to keep the nation safe, Mr. West argues, and if that means temporary suspension of individual rights while the nation is in jeopardy, so be it. He is, after all, commander-in-chief. Jackson, Andrew (President 1829-1837). Annual Message of the President of the United States, to the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Opening of the Second Session of the Twenty-third Congress. Washington: Blair & Rives, printer, 1834. 8vo, untrimmed, no wraps, 16pp. Condition: Edge scuffing and surface soil on most. Some toning.
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