Speech [suppressed by the previous question] of Mr. John Quincy Adams on the Removal of the Public Deposites, and Its Reasons 1834
Financial transactions and the functions and deeds of a banking structure were areas of concern to the United States in the early years of the 19th Century. The Speech [suppressed by the previous question] of Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Removal of the Public Deposites, and Its Reasons was supposed to be presented to the House of Representatives, but because of some chicanery in the House (as alluded to by the phrase “suppressed by the previous question” in the title), Mr. Adams could not present the speech. He therefore published it, and distributed it, as this pamphlet. Mr. Adams said, in this “speech”, that “...The reasons, therefore, assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury for ordering and directing otherwise than that the public funds should be deposited in the Bank of the United States and its branches are insufficient and unsatisfactory. First, because they do not show that his proceedings, in relation to this measure, were lawful. Secondly, because they do not prove that they were just. It is within the bounds of supposable probability, that a measure may be both lawful and just, and yet that the reasons assigned for it should be insufficient. In the present case it has, to my mind, been proved that the measure itself was neither lawful nor just. It is but too well known that, besides the reasons assigned by the Secretary, there were others, which he withheld. What they were, we have in evidence from other sources; but they are all equally insufficient to show that the measure was either lawful or just...”.
The pamphlet contains 43 pages, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ½ x 9 inches. There are the remains of a front end paper and a complete rear end paper attached to the pamphlet. The pages are tanned, with light occasional foxing, but the text is clear and easily read. The pamphlet is a first edition, as printed in Washington by Gales and Seaton in 1834. It is not a modern reprint or scanned copy of an original.
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829). He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State. Historians agree he was one of the great diplomats in American history. Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater acclimation than he had achieved as president. He is, so far, the only president later elected to the United States House of Representatives. Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery, Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power. He predicted that if a civil war were to break out, the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers. Adams also predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave revolts. [Wikipedia]
Financial transactions and the functions and deeds of a banking structure were areas of concern to the United States in the early years of the 19th Century. The Speech [suppressed by the previous question] of Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Removal of the Public Deposites, and Its Reasons was supposed to be presented to the House of Representatives, but because of some chicanery in the House (as alluded to by the phrase “suppressed by the previous question” in the title), Mr. Adams could not present the speech. He therefore published it, and distributed it, as this pamphlet. Mr. Adams said, in this “speech”, that “...The reasons, therefore, assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury for ordering and directing otherwise than that the public funds should be deposited in the Bank of the United States and its branches are insufficient and unsatisfactory. First, because they do not show that his proceedings, in relation to this measure, were lawful. Secondly, because they do not prove that they were just. It is within the bounds of supposable probability, that a measure may be both lawful and just, and yet that the reasons assigned for it should be insufficient. In the present case it has, to my mind, been proved that the measure itself was neither lawful nor just. It is but too well known that, besides the reasons assigned by the Secretary, there were others, which he withheld. What they were, we have in evidence from other sources; but they are all equally insufficient to show that the measure was either lawful or just...”.
The pamphlet contains 43 pages, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ½ x 9 inches. There are the remains of a front end paper and a complete rear end paper attached to the pamphlet. The pages are tanned, with light occasional foxing, but the text is clear and easily read. The pamphlet is a first edition, as printed in Washington by Gales and Seaton in 1834. It is not a modern reprint or scanned copy of an original.
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829). He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State. Historians agree he was one of the great diplomats in American history. Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater acclimation than he had achieved as president. He is, so far, the only president later elected to the United States House of Representatives. Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery, Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power. He predicted that if a civil war were to break out, the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers. Adams also predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave revolts. [Wikipedia]
Financial transactions and the functions and deeds of a banking structure were areas of concern to the United States in the early years of the 19th Century. The Speech [suppressed by the previous question] of Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Removal of the Public Deposites, and Its Reasons was supposed to be presented to the House of Representatives, but because of some chicanery in the House (as alluded to by the phrase “suppressed by the previous question” in the title), Mr. Adams could not present the speech. He therefore published it, and distributed it, as this pamphlet. Mr. Adams said, in this “speech”, that “...The reasons, therefore, assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury for ordering and directing otherwise than that the public funds should be deposited in the Bank of the United States and its branches are insufficient and unsatisfactory. First, because they do not show that his proceedings, in relation to this measure, were lawful. Secondly, because they do not prove that they were just. It is within the bounds of supposable probability, that a measure may be both lawful and just, and yet that the reasons assigned for it should be insufficient. In the present case it has, to my mind, been proved that the measure itself was neither lawful nor just. It is but too well known that, besides the reasons assigned by the Secretary, there were others, which he withheld. What they were, we have in evidence from other sources; but they are all equally insufficient to show that the measure was either lawful or just...”.
The pamphlet contains 43 pages, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ½ x 9 inches. There are the remains of a front end paper and a complete rear end paper attached to the pamphlet. The pages are tanned, with light occasional foxing, but the text is clear and easily read. The pamphlet is a first edition, as printed in Washington by Gales and Seaton in 1834. It is not a modern reprint or scanned copy of an original.
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829). He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State. Historians agree he was one of the great diplomats in American history. Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater acclimation than he had achieved as president. He is, so far, the only president later elected to the United States House of Representatives. Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery, Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power. He predicted that if a civil war were to break out, the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers. Adams also predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave revolts. [Wikipedia]