First edition.
A one-page introduction by the publisher, Richard Carlile (1790-1843) precedes President James Monroe's speech to Congress. Monroe's speech is followed by a 2-page speech by the Lord Commissioners.
"Nothing can offer a stronger proof, that the misery and distress which has entailed on the inhabitants of those Kingdoms, originates in the defect of the representation, (or rather the misrepresentation and mockery of the reality;) then [sic] by perusing and comparing the following speeches, considered as issuing from the Chief Magistrate of each Nation; in the one, where the People are fully and fairly, represented we find its Chief Magistrate exulting and congratulating every individual in the state on its flourishing condition, and at the same time acknowledging that all just power and control emanates from the great body of the People;-- in the other we find nothing but dark and ambiguous meanings, complaints of the disaffection of a People.." -- Excerpted from the publisher's note "To the Reader". Good .
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