Autumn 2020 Catalogue

12 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 John Quincy Adams’ Last State Of The Union Address, 1828 Broadside Printing 9. ADAMS, John Quincy. President’s Message. IN: National Intelligencer—Extra , December 2, 1828. Washington, 1828. Broadside sheet of wove stock. $3000. Click for more info Probably the earliest newspaper printing of Adams’ last State of the Union Address, in which he acknowledges the unfairness of the famous “Tariff of Abominations,” whichall but lost himthepresidency. Adams’ term as president was “a long nightmare, oppressed by a succession of alternately terrible and trivial events, which he seemed powerless to control or avoid” (Brookhiser, 93). Perhaps the last “terrible event” of Adams’ administration was his proposal for a high tariff on imported industrial goods, particularly textiles and finished clothing. In this, Adams’ fourth and last State of the Union Address, he acknowledges the unfairness of the tariff: “The tariff of the last session was in its details not acceptable to the great interests of any portion of the Union.” But it was too late. Adams’ address was delivered just the day before he learned of his defeat by Andrew Jackson. Light soiling to top margin, shallow creasing to corners. An extremely good copy. Scarce.