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Adams John Quincy



Pres. John Quincy Adams’ Third State of the Union Address Referring to the Treaty of Paris Ending the Rev War & the Treaty of Ghent

Newspaper, 1p, 18.75” x 23.75. Headlined “President’s Message. / National Intelligencer … . Extra / Tuesday, December 4, 1827.” Minor flaws, uniformly foxed, frayed edges. Completely legible text not affected. Fine condition.



Article II Section 3 of the United States Constitution states that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient…” Presidents Washington and Adams delivered their annual messages to Congress in person. Jefferson discontinued the practice. Until Wilson reestablished the practice in 1913, the President would send his written message to each House where it would be read by a clerk.



This six column printing is headed “The President of the United States transmitted, this day, to both Houses of Congress, the following Message”



The Journals of the House and Senate recorded that “A communication, in writing, was then received from the President of the United States, by Mr. John Adams, his private Secretary: which was read, and is as follows…” John Adams was President John Quincy Adams’ 24-year-old son, born in 1803 on the 4th of July.



On foreign policy, referring to both the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War and the Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812 and which he signed as a representative of the United States, in part, “This final disposal of one of the most painful topics of collision between the United States and Great Britain not only affords an occasion of gratulation to ourselves, but has had the happiest effect in promoting a friendly disposition and in softening asperities upon other objects of discussion; nor ought it to pass without the tribute of a frank and cordial acknowledgment of the magnanimity with which an honorable nation, by the reparation of their own wrongs, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever bestow …



“In the execution of the Treaties of Peace of November 1782, and September 1783, between the United States and Great Britain, and which terminated the war of our Independence, a line of boundary was drawn as the demarcation of territory between the two countries, extending over near twenty degrees of latitude, and ranging over seas, lakes, and mountains, then very imperfectly explored, and scarcely opened to the geographical knowledge of the age. In the progress of discovery and settlement by both parties since that time, several questions of boundary between their respective territories, have arisen, which have been found of exceedingly difficult adjustment. At the close of the last war with Great Britain four of these questions pressed themselves upon the consideration of the negotiators of the Treaty of Ghent, but without the means of concluding a definitive arrangement concerning them … ”



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