ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President . Autograph letter signed ("J Q Adams") as former President and Massachusetts Congressman, to the Committee of the Whigs of the City and County of Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., 24 June 1838. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 200 mm. (9 7/8 x 8 in.), attractively matted in a burlwood frame .A FORMER PRESIDENT AND SON OF A SIGNER DECLINES AN INVITATION FOR THE 4TH OF JULY. The elderly Adams formally declines an invitation to a 4th of July celebration in Philadelphia: "I am honoured with your invitation to attend the celebration of the 62nd anniversary of American Independence...[but] necessary attendance upon public duties at this City [Washington, D.C.] on that day deprives me of the pleasure of accepting this invitation, and leaves me only fervent prayer, that it may prove a day of joyous and unmingled festivity..." In Congress, Adams was engaged in his protest against a prohibition of debate on slavery, and was reading into the record large numbers of anti-slavery petitions. The Whig party (which Adams joined) was a recent political coalition of forces united in opposition to Jacksonian Democrats and President Van Buren. Two years later, the Whigs successfully fielded William Henry Harrison as their Presidential candidate.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President . Autograph letter signed ("J Q Adams") as former President and Massachusetts Congressman, to the Committee of the Whigs of the City and County of Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., 24 June 1838. 1 page, 4to, 250 x 200 mm. (9 7/8 x 8 in.), attractively matted in a burlwood frame .A FORMER PRESIDENT AND SON OF A SIGNER DECLINES AN INVITATION FOR THE 4TH OF JULY. The elderly Adams formally declines an invitation to a 4th of July celebration in Philadelphia: "I am honoured with your invitation to attend the celebration of the 62nd anniversary of American Independence...[but] necessary attendance upon public duties at this City [Washington, D.C.] on that day deprives me of the pleasure of accepting this invitation, and leaves me only fervent prayer, that it may prove a day of joyous and unmingled festivity..." In Congress, Adams was engaged in his protest against a prohibition of debate on slavery, and was reading into the record large numbers of anti-slavery petitions. The Whig party (which Adams joined) was a recent political coalition of forces united in opposition to Jacksonian Democrats and President Van Buren. Two years later, the Whigs successfully fielded William Henry Harrison as their Presidential candidate.
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