1774 pre-REVOLUTIONARY WAR newspaper PROCEEDINGS of the 1ST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Complete Printings of the Continental Congress Resolves and the Continental Association

Verlag: The Gentleman's Magazine, London, 1774

8vo. An original 1774 newspaper, with supplement, with detailed reports covering the proceedings of the First Continental Congress, which met at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia between September 5 - October 26, 1774. This issue contains complete printings of the Congress' Resolves, passed on October 14, 1774 as well as the articles of the Continental Association, a colonies-wide pledge to halt all British imports and exports, including slaves. This December, 1774 issue of the Gentleman's Magazine, including the year-end supplement, contains approximately 20 pages pertaining to the Continental Congress or other events in the upstart Colonies. Also included are a partial printing of the Congress' Declaration of Rights, the speech by King George III at the opening of Parliament in which his first order of business is the American Colonies, and a 10-page speech by Edmund Burke to Parliament on the effects of British taxation in America. This issue also features the address of Congress to the American Colonists, seeking cooperation with and support of the Continental Association, arguing that the economic effects it would induce will bear fruit and result in a relaxing of the perceived mistreatment of the colonists by the British Parliament. Also printed is the Congress' agreement to meet again the following May, a meeting which did occur but by then war had already begun after the Battles at Lexington and Concord. Perhaps just as important as all of these other measures, there is a long and detailed report of the establishment of the first completely independent non-sanctioned legislature in the American Colonies, Massachusetts, whose members openly defied the leadership of General Thomas Gage and the official Royal government in the colony by deciding meet in session in Concord. Complete with called-for plates and map English roads #2C-004. Very Good, Disbound. private library marking to lower right corner of front page, embossed in blind. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15265

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Titel: 1774 pre-REVOLUTIONARY WAR newspaper ...
Verlag: The Gentleman's Magazine, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1774
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage