[Rarebooks] fa: THOMAS KENNEDY - WASHINGTON CITY 1816 - Poems re: WAR OF 1812 - CALLENDER SEDITION TRIAL etc.

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Thomas Kennedy: Poems. Washington City: Printed by Danile Rapine, for  
the Author, 1816. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (18 x 11cm) in full period  
calf with gilt-stamped morocco spine label; 334 (i.e. 330) pp.  
(numbers 7-180 omitted in the pagination). Wegelin Early American  
Poetry p. 28...

The poems, arranged chronologically, provide a fascinating glimpse at  
some of the major, and many of the more obscure, events of the day.  
They are followed by a section of "Notes" by the author, including a  
lengthy eyewitness account of the British capture of Washington in  
1814. A few of the titles in the collection: The Meeting of Virginia  
and Maryland (Occasioned by the erection of the Bridge over the  
Potomac...); To the Citizen Washington Lafayette; On the Anniversary  
of American Independence, July 4, 1796; Speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief  
to Lord Dunmore; Ode Occasioned by ... J.T. [James Thompson]  
Callender's trial at Richmond, Virginia, for Sedition; Ode composed on  
reading an account of the murder of John Pierce of Sandy Hook, ... by  
a shot from the British ship of war Leander, captain Henry Whitby, on  
the 25th April, 1806; Address to the City of Baltimore; The Delivery  
of New Orleans; Ode on the Conflagration at Washington City, August  
24th, 1814; The Old Soldier's Petition to the Assembly of Maryland;  
Hymn composed on the day of Humiliation and Prayer, recommended by the  
President of the United States, August 20, 1812; Bad Horsemanship (Or  
the Quarter Race, round the Bell-House, Matildaville); Epistle to My  
Ever Dear Friends in Caledonia; etc., etc...