Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting, In Pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 30th Jan. Last, Communications from the Agents of the United States with the Governments South of the U. States ...
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1822. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059819
Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout; few previous owner's ink markings (upper wrapper); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 74 pages (including wrappers). Upper wrapper title; at head of title: 90 (in brackets). Title continued: Which Have Declared Their Independence; and the Communications from the Agents of Such Governments in the United States with the Secretary of State, as Tend to Shew [sic] the Political Condition of Their Governments, and the State of the War Between Them and Spain. Dated March 8, 1822 ('Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations'; upper wrapper). Introductory letters by Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams; notable for Monroe's declaration of neutrality on the civil conflicts then occuring in both Colombia and Peru, as well as communiques from the various South American governmental representatives. Monroe (1758-1831), American statesman and 5th US President (1817-25); also notable as minister to France (1794), Secretary of State under Madison (1811) and also (briefly) Secretary of War (1814-15); administration best known for the policy of non-colonization of the European powers in the Americas (generally known as the 'Monroe Doctrine', 1823) and for the annexation of Florida (1819).
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