PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. REPUBLICAN STAR, EASTON, (MD.)| THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 10. WE ARE INDEBTED TO THE KIND ATTENTION OF A FRIEND FOR A COPY OF THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - IT WAS RECEIVED IN BALTIMORE ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT FIVE MINUTES AFTER TWO O'CLOCK - WE RECEIVED IT THIS MORNING.| WASHINGTON, DEC. 8.| THIS DAY, AT 12 O'CLOCK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMUNICATED TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE...
Easton, MD: Republican Star, 1829. Folio broadsheet, 12.75" x 17.5". Banner headline, printed in five columns on both sides. Tanned with scattered foxing, several creases and old folds [several small holes at fold corners with loss of several words]. A few early ink calculations in blank bottom margin of recto. Signed in type by Andrew Jackson. Good+.
This is an exceedingly rare contemporary printing of President Jackson's first annual message to Congress, delivered on December 8, 1829.
The President discusses Indian Removal, a subject dear to his heart. Jackson explains his policy to send them from Georgia and Alabama to territories set apart for them west of the Mississippi River. Anticipating charges of cruelty, he assures that, "Emigration should be voluntary, for it would be as cruel as unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers and seek a home in a distant land. But they should be distinctly informed that if they remain within the limits of the States they must be subject to their laws. In return for their obedience as individuals they will without doubt be protected in the enjoyment of those possessions which they have improved by their industry." Item #40461
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