AN ORATION, SPOKEN AT HARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, JULY 4TH, 1798

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$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1798. Octavo, pp. 1-3 4-31 32: blank , disbound. First edition. A scurrilous address by an ultra-Federalist New England lawyer whose enthusiasm for the French Revolution had turned to fear and aversion during the crises in relations between the post-Revolutionary French government and the United States in 1797 and 1798 that led to the undeclared war called the Quasi-War.

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