[MONROE JAMES] Set of Senate documents from the Eighteenth C

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FIRST EDITION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE [MONROE, JAMES.] Set of Senate documents from the Eighteenth Congress. 30 reports and index, bound together. Folding tables. Thick 8vo, contemporary calf, front joint mended, backstrip worn, spine title reading "Monroe Doctrine"; rear hinge broken, worm holes in pastedowns, minor browning. Senate Documents, 18th Congress, 1st Session, Documents 1-23 and 25-30. Washington, 1823-1824

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A set of annual reports and messages bound together, beginning with President Monroe's 2 December 1823 "Message from the President of the United States, to both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress." This 15-page report is the first appearance in book form of the famous Monroe Doctrine, expressing American opposition to any increased European colonial interference in the Western Hemisphere: "we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peace and safety" (page 14). This report is listed in the Grolier Club's One Hundred Influential American Books, 33. It had previously appeared only in one broadside printing. Howes M724.

Monroe's message is bound with 29 other reports presented to the 18th Congress, some of almost equal interest. Appearing directly after Monroe's message is the 206-page "Documents Accompanying the Message of the President" of the same date, illustrated with 26 folding charts and tables, and including a 54-page section titled "Correspondence Relative to Hostilities of the Arickaree Indians." These published letters describe in great detail a prolonged clash between the Arikaras, Sioux, and Americans along the northern Missouri River.

This volume also includes reports on Rhode Island cotton manufacture, Revolutionary War pensioners, expansion of the peacetime navy, and much more.