Property from the Eric C. Caren CollectionADAMS, JOHN QUINCYPresident's Message, in National Journal Extra. Washington, December 5, 1826 Broadside newspaper Extra (21 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.; 542 x 378 mm) on wove paper, text in five columns; foxed and browned, a few tiny fold separations and marginal tears, printed over several diagonal creases, but legibility of text unaffected. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. President John Quincy Adams's second Annual Message, or State of the Union Address, delivered during the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence. Adams's minutely detailed speech, celebrating American success and stability at home and abroad, is most notable for his recognition, in the concluding paragraph, of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and of the recent deaths of Thomas Jefferson and his own father, John Adams who had both died on July 4, 1826. " In closing this communication I trust that it will not be deemed inappropriate to the occasion and purposes upon which we are here assembled, to indulge a momentary retrospect, combining in a single glance, the period of our origin as a National Confederation with that of our present existence, at the precise interval of half a century from each other. Since your last meeting at this place, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the day when our Independence was declared has been celebrated throughout our land; and on that day, when every heart was bounding with joy and every voice was tuned to gratulation, amid the blessings of Freedom and Independence, which the sires of a former age had handed down to their children, two of the principal actors in that solemn scene, the hand that penned the ever-memorable Declaration and the voice that sustained it in debate, were, by one summons, at the distance of seven hundred miles from each other, called before the Judge of all, to account for their deeds done upon the earth. They departed cheered by the benedictions of their country, to whom they left the inheritance of their fame and the memory of their bright example." Rare: no copy of this National Journal Extra can be traced in the auction records, but two copies of the rival National Intelligencer Extra that printed the same presidential message have been sold in recent years.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Eric C. Caren CollectionADAMS, JOHN QUINCYPresident's Message, in National Journal Extra. Washington, December 5, 1826 Broadside newspaper Extra (21 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.; 542 x 378 mm) on wove paper, text in five columns; foxed and browned, a few tiny fold separations and marginal tears, printed over several diagonal creases, but legibility of text unaffected. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. President John Quincy Adams's second Annual Message, or State of the Union Address, delivered during the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence. Adams's minutely detailed speech, celebrating American success and stability at home and abroad, is most notable for his recognition, in the concluding paragraph, of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and of the recent deaths of Thomas Jefferson and his own father, John Adams who had both died on July 4, 1826. " In closing this communication I trust that it will not be deemed inappropriate to the occasion and purposes upon which we are here assembled, to indulge a momentary retrospect, combining in a single glance, the period of our origin as a National Confederation with that of our present existence, at the precise interval of half a century from each other. Since your last meeting at this place, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the day when our Independence was declared has been celebrated throughout our land; and on that day, when every heart was bounding with joy and every voice was tuned to gratulation, amid the blessings of Freedom and Independence, which the sires of a former age had handed down to their children, two of the principal actors in that solemn scene, the hand that penned the ever-memorable Declaration and the voice that sustained it in debate, were, by one summons, at the distance of seven hundred miles from each other, called before the Judge of all, to account for their deeds done upon the earth. They departed cheered by the benedictions of their country, to whom they left the inheritance of their fame and the memory of their bright example." Rare: no copy of this National Journal Extra can be traced in the auction records, but two copies of the rival National Intelligencer Extra that printed the same presidential message have been sold in recent years.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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