Mr. Quincy's Speech on the Bill for Admitting the Territory of Orleans, into the Union, Delivered in Congress, on the 14th January, 1811 caption title

by Josiah Quincy

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NP: np, 1811. One of several editions of this speech printed in 1811. 8vo. 19, 1 pp. Presentation slip to Revd. Professor Norton Andrews Norton, 1786-1853, Biblical scholar and Dexter Professor of Sacred literature in the Harvard Divinity School , signed by Quincy, tipped-in at the title page. Quincy 1772-1864 , served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1805-1813, here opposing admission of Louisiana as a state on the grounds that

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