Mass. Congressman regrets Louisiana Purchase
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Author: Taggart, Samuel
Title: An Oration delivered at Conway, July 4, 1804: Being the anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America
Place Published: Northampton
Publisher:Printed by William Butler
Date Published: 1804
Description: 30 pp. 21x12.3 cm (8¼x4¾"), disbound, with remains of stitching on spine. First Edition,Oration given in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase by the Federalist Congressman from Massachusetts. While extolling the blessings of a free government, Taggart expresses discomfort with the nascent division between North and South that were already evident, and the enmity between party factions and the divisions between large and small states. He particularly deplores "the late enlargement of our territory, by the purchase and accession of Louisiana," whose inhabitants are "ignorant in the extreme, and born and educated in the habits of a despotic government..." Sabin 94208
Author: Taggart, Samuel
Title: An Oration delivered at Conway, July 4, 1804: Being the anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America
Place Published: Northampton
Publisher:Printed by William Butler
Date Published: 1804
Description: 30 pp. 21x12.3 cm (8¼x4¾"), disbound, with remains of stitching on spine. First Edition,Oration given in the aftermath of the Louisiana Purchase by the Federalist Congressman from Massachusetts. While extolling the blessings of a free government, Taggart expresses discomfort with the nascent division between North and South that were already evident, and the enmity between party factions and the divisions between large and small states. He particularly deplores "the late enlargement of our territory, by the purchase and accession of Louisiana," whose inhabitants are "ignorant in the extreme, and born and educated in the habits of a despotic government..." Sabin 94208
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