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ADAMS, John Quincy, (1767-1848) President. Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as President, to Richard Rush (1790-1859), Quincy, Mass., 29 August 1828. 1 page, 4to, blank integral leaf, docketed on verso, tape repairs along edges of verso.
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ADAMS, John Quincy, (1767-1848) President. Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as President, to Richard Rush (1790-1859), Quincy, Mass., 29 August 1828. 1 page, 4to, blank integral leaf, docketed on verso, tape repairs along edges of verso.
GEARING UP FOR HIS 1828 RE-ELECTION BID, President John Quincy Adams deals with some Customs Service business with his Treasury Secretary and 1828 running mate. "The papers enclosed with your letter N. 4 of the 22d inst. are herewith returned, with an order upon the petition of Borden Wood, Master of the American Ship Olympia for the remission of the penalty on payment of Costs, for bringing from Havre to New York an excess of six passengers. I have filled the Commission for the Captain of the new Revenue Cutter, with the name of Nicholas Bicker. The weight of recommendations...preponderate in his favour. To that of first Lieutenant I have, according to the recommendation of Mr. Thompson the Collector of New York, transferred Joseph A. Bender, the Second Lieutenant of the Alert. And to supply his place, another commission will be necessary to be filled with the name of James Eaton." Turning to the later summer weather in New England, Adams says "We have yet days of scorching and parching heat, with nights of little less than frost. I hope you have more of the temperate zone at Washington..." The fall would bring a vicious presidential contest in which Andrew Jackson avenged his 1824 defeat at the hands of Adams following what Jacksonians called the "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay to win the contest in the House of Representatives. The Adams forces, for their part, landed blows above and below the belt against Jackson, accusing him of being a bigamist and a blood-thirsty duelist. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY ADAMS AS PRESIDENT ARE SCARCE.
GEARING UP FOR HIS 1828 RE-ELECTION BID, President John Quincy Adams deals with some Customs Service business with his Treasury Secretary and 1828 running mate. "The papers enclosed with your letter N. 4 of the 22d inst. are herewith returned, with an order upon the petition of Borden Wood, Master of the American Ship Olympia for the remission of the penalty on payment of Costs, for bringing from Havre to New York an excess of six passengers. I have filled the Commission for the Captain of the new Revenue Cutter, with the name of Nicholas Bicker. The weight of recommendations...preponderate in his favour. To that of first Lieutenant I have, according to the recommendation of Mr. Thompson the Collector of New York, transferred Joseph A. Bender, the Second Lieutenant of the Alert. And to supply his place, another commission will be necessary to be filled with the name of James Eaton." Turning to the later summer weather in New England, Adams says "We have yet days of scorching and parching heat, with nights of little less than frost. I hope you have more of the temperate zone at Washington..." The fall would bring a vicious presidential contest in which Andrew Jackson avenged his 1824 defeat at the hands of Adams following what Jacksonians called the "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay to win the contest in the House of Representatives. The Adams forces, for their part, landed blows above and below the belt against Jackson, accusing him of being a bigamist and a blood-thirsty duelist. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY ADAMS AS PRESIDENT ARE SCARCE.