Dwight, Theodore:

HISTORY OF THE HARTFORD CONVENTION: WITH A REVIEW OF THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, WHICH LED TO THE WAR OF 1812. BY..., SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION.

New-York: N & J White; Boston: Russell, Odiorne, & Co, 1833. 447pp, bound in original cloth [rubbed]. Scattered foxing, Good plus.

Writing when Federalists and their descendants, the Whigs, were being mercilessly attacked by Jacksonians for their opposition at the Hartford Convention to the War of 1812, Dwight "published the journal of that ill-starred gathering together with a review of the steps leading up to the War of 1812. It is an able defense of the Federalist party, although somewhat too polemical for good historical writing" [DAB].
FIRST EDITION Larned 1614. AI 18630 [7]. V DAB 570. Item #42145

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