Author: ADAMS, Charles Francis
Title: Speech of Charles Francis Adams, of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1861
Description: N.p. N.p. n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Near fine. Minor binding traces, else clean and attractive. Eloquent speechifying by the son of John Quincy Adams, who predicts the downfall of slavery and the inevitable victory of the Union. "The [Confederate] experiment will ignominiously fail," he intones. Soon after this Adams was named U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James, where he was embroiled in the Trent affair. First edition. SABIN 186 (which misquotes the title). .

Keywords: Civil War


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