[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED July 4 Oration by John Quincy Adams

[Charles Agvent]

ADAMS, John Quincy. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE 
TOWN OF NEWBURYPORT ... ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 
Newburyport: Morss and Brewster, (1837). First Edition. Original printed 
blue wrappers; 68 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blue wrapper: 
"Deacon Samuel Savile/from/John Quincy Adams." Books inscribed by Adams 
are quite uncommon, and when found are usually signed on a presentation 
slip pasted in rather than in the actual pamphlet or book as it is here. 
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 one of our most intelligent presidents 
and one of the greatest humanitarians to hold that office. He is also 
the only president to serve in Congress after leaving office and is 
perhaps best known for two accomplishments outside his term: the 
authorship of the Monroe Doctrine as secretary of state and his heroic, 
successful argument before the Supreme Court to free the Amistad slaves. 
This oration is of particular interest as it was given on 4 July 1837 to 
commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a 
document his father was assigned to draft, though he left that task to 
Thomas Jefferson. Adams Sr. and Jefferson were the only presidents to 
sign the Declaration. In this speech Adams refers to the injustice of 
slavery several times connecting it to the promise of the Declaration of 
Independence and "a rule of right transcending all human power ... must 
lead to the extinction of slavery and of war from the earth." Adams and 
Savile were members of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church in 
Braintree, Massachusetts. Very Good and scarce. (#014908)        $20,000

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