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[STRONG, Caleb] (1746-1819), Senator, Governor of Massachusetts. An archive of 28 letters to Strong, 15 May 1774 to 20 December 1814, Together 47 pages, 4tos and 8vos.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, THE ASSUMPTION PLAN, THE BURR-JEFFERSON ELECTION: A PANORAMA OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
A SUBSTANTIAL ARCHIVE PACKED WITH DRAMATIC, BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCOUNTS OF EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY. Strong was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and later served as a Massachusetts Senator and twice as the state's Federalist governor (in which capacity he received the 29 May 1803 Circular Letter signed by President James Madison). DECLARATION SIGNER Robert Treat Paine congratulates Strong on 9 December 1788 "on your election to the Federal Senatorship." NATHANIEL GORHAM'S 29 AUGUST 1787 LETTER REPORTS ON PROGRESS FROM WITHIN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: "We have now under consideration the 18th article which is that the United States shall guarantee, &c." This is the provision that became Article IV, Sec. 4: the "full faith and credit" clause. Theodore Sedgwick's lengthy, 5-page letter of 6 August 1786 mentions Shays's Rebellion, the weakness of the Congress, the Annapolis convention, and the weakening connection between the States: "The Affairs of the continent are in such circumstances, as afford no balance to the disorders of particular States. Should Massachusetts fall into anarchy the great prop of the union would be prostrate....Even the appearance of a union cannot, in the way we now are, long be preserved." Rufus King's 26 June 1790 memorandum contains a lengthy, fascinating discussion of the assumption plan and the relocation of the capital: "Mr. Carrol will propose Philadelphia & Potomack for the temporary & permanent Residence of the Congress...it may have been suggested, as it formerly was, that the assumption will depend on its success." William Hooker's 5 February 1790 letter discusses Hamilton's Report on the Public Credit. Sedgwick's 25 June 1798 letter is a gripping discussion of national politics and the possibility of war with France. Senator Dwight Foster's 12 December 1800 letter discusses THE CONGRESSIONAL INTRIGUES OVER THE BURR-JEFFERSON ELECTION while Timothy Pickering's 2 December 1803 letter discusses the debates over the 12th amendment. Other correspondents include Edmund Randolph and Judge Samuel Sewall. A rich and comprehensive archive of the political battles in the Constitutional period and the early republic. Together 28 items. (28)
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, THE ASSUMPTION PLAN, THE BURR-JEFFERSON ELECTION: A PANORAMA OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
A SUBSTANTIAL ARCHIVE PACKED WITH DRAMATIC, BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCOUNTS OF EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY. Strong was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and later served as a Massachusetts Senator and twice as the state's Federalist governor (in which capacity he received the 29 May 1803 Circular Letter signed by President James Madison). DECLARATION SIGNER Robert Treat Paine congratulates Strong on 9 December 1788 "on your election to the Federal Senatorship." NATHANIEL GORHAM'S 29 AUGUST 1787 LETTER REPORTS ON PROGRESS FROM WITHIN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: "We have now under consideration the 18th article which is that the United States shall guarantee, &c." This is the provision that became Article IV, Sec. 4: the "full faith and credit" clause. Theodore Sedgwick's lengthy, 5-page letter of 6 August 1786 mentions Shays's Rebellion, the weakness of the Congress, the Annapolis convention, and the weakening connection between the States: "The Affairs of the continent are in such circumstances, as afford no balance to the disorders of particular States. Should Massachusetts fall into anarchy the great prop of the union would be prostrate....Even the appearance of a union cannot, in the way we now are, long be preserved." Rufus King's 26 June 1790 memorandum contains a lengthy, fascinating discussion of the assumption plan and the relocation of the capital: "Mr. Carrol will propose Philadelphia & Potomack for the temporary & permanent Residence of the Congress...it may have been suggested, as it formerly was, that the assumption will depend on its success." William Hooker's 5 February 1790 letter discusses Hamilton's Report on the Public Credit. Sedgwick's 25 June 1798 letter is a gripping discussion of national politics and the possibility of war with France. Senator Dwight Foster's 12 December 1800 letter discusses THE CONGRESSIONAL INTRIGUES OVER THE BURR-JEFFERSON ELECTION while Timothy Pickering's 2 December 1803 letter discusses the debates over the 12th amendment. Other correspondents include Edmund Randolph and Judge Samuel Sewall. A rich and comprehensive archive of the political battles in the Constitutional period and the early republic. Together 28 items. (28)