8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight stains, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to wrappers); slight creases to lower edges. 8 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: 71 (in brackets). Document dated January 19, 1821; 'Read, and ordered to lie on the table' (upper wrapper); includes statement (table) from the superintendent of Indian trade Thomas L. McKenney. 'Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the 13th instant' (upper wrapper). With holograph ink annotation at head of upper wrapper: 'Recorded page 144. / Feby 8th 1821 / N. F.' (otherwise unidentified; probably a House clerk noting document's entrance into the Congressional Record; pencil annotation 'Recorded' at head of page 3; similar holograph). Calhoun (1782-1850), South Carolina-born statesman and political philosopher; graduate of Yale (1804), elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1808 and to the US Congress in 1810; supporter of the War of 1812 (even after the Treaty of Ghent); Secretary of War under James Monroe (1817-25) and noted for his improvements in army organization; elected US Vice President (1824, 1828) but soon alienated from Andrew Jackson over the nullification issue; served for a time as Secretary of State (under John Tyler); of further note for his positions on slavery and the Mexican War.1 Table (2 pages). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers L059789

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Titel: Letter from the Secretary of War, ...

Verlag: Printed By Gales & Seaton

Erscheinungsdatum: 1821

Einband: Trade Paperback

Zustand: Good

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Auflage: First Edition.

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