Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 244

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PRESIDENTS--1825.) Adams, John Quincy. President's Message. National Intelligencer Extra. Letterpress broadside, 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches, in six columns; disbound, irregularly trimmed without loss of text. Washington, 6 December 1825

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The full text of Adams's first State of the Union address, printed on the day it was delivered. Treaties with Indians are discussed in the third column. He also discusses the continued effort to suppress "that abominable traffic," the African slave trade--a trade he famously faced down in court 16 years later in United States v. the Amistad.