[Rarebooks] FS: John Quincy Adams: JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION, 1839, Inscribed to William Ellery Channing

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ADAMS,  John Quincy. THE JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION. A  DISCOURSE
DELIVERED  ... THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION OF  GEORGE
WASHINGTON.  New York: Samuel Colman 1839. First Edition. Later  wraps
retaining  most  of  the  original front wrap housed  in  chemise  and
morocco-backed  slipcase;  136 pages with frontispiece  depicting  the
Inauguraton  of Washington at the Old City Hall. INSCRIBED and  SIGNED
on    the  half-title  page  in   ink:  "Revd.  William  E.   Channing
D.D./from/John  Quincy  Adams." Books inscribed by Adams  are  scarce.
Typically  one sees Adams's Oration on Lafayette signed on a  separate
slip  pasted into the book. The first child of a president to become a
president,  the first president to be a published poet, and the  first
president    to  be  photographed,  Adams   was  certainly  our   most
intelligent  president  and one of the greatest humanitarians to  hold
that  office. He is perhaps best known for two accomplishments outside
his  term: the authorship as Secretary of State of the Monroe Doctrine
and  his heroic, successful argument before the Supreme Court to  free
the  Amistad  slaves. William Ellery Channing, whose  father  defended
the  first  slave trader to be convicted in an American  court,  was a
leader  of  the  Unitarian  movement, sometimes referred  to  as  "the
apostle   of  Unitarianism,"  and  was   one  of  the  most  outspoken
abolitionists  of his time, speaking against slavery as early as 1825.
His  last public address, in 1842, called for an end to slavery in the
United  States through peaceful means and helped to give  anti-slavery
a  respectability  it had not had before. His writings influenced  the
Transcendentalists.  Channing and Adams knew each other well and  grew
closer  in  their  beliefs as they aged. Near Fine with  a  few  small
paper repairs. A superb presentation.                        $20,000.00
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