On the Olive Branch Petition... Setting the tone for war...
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August 21, 1775
EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, Aug. 21, 1775.
* re. Olive Branch Petition
* John Hancock
* Revolutionary war original
* Rare title
A nice issue from the early part of the Revolutionary War with a page 3 address of Congress to the King which relates to the Olive Branch Petition. It is prefaced with:
* The Twelve United Colonies of America, by their delegates in Congess, have sent over another very long address to...Great Britain dated July 8th 1775, in which they complain of an accumulation of injuries exercised by the mother country...
See the photos for th full text of the address, which is signed in type by the President: John Hancock, and which includes in part: "...Yet conclude not from this that we propose to surrender our property into the hands of your Ministry...our struggle will be glorious, our success certain, since even in death we shall find that freedom which in life you forbid us to enjoy...Soldiers who have sheathed their swords in the bowels of their American brethren will not draw them with more reluctance against you...A cloud hangs over your heads and ours; ere this reaches you, it may probably have burst upon us...Let us entreat Heaven to avert our ruin & the destruction that threatens our friends, brethren, & countrymen on the other side of the Atlantic."
A simply terrific letter which states the determined cause of the colonists, and which was prophetic as well for the Revolutionary War had already begun.
Complete in 4 pgs., folio size, archival repairs at the blank spine, generally nice.
* re. Olive Branch Petition
* John Hancock
* Revolutionary war original
* Rare title
A nice issue from the early part of the Revolutionary War with a page 3 address of Congress to the King which relates to the Olive Branch Petition. It is prefaced with:
* The Twelve United Colonies of America, by their delegates in Congess, have sent over another very long address to...Great Britain dated July 8th 1775, in which they complain of an accumulation of injuries exercised by the mother country...
See the photos for th full text of the address, which is signed in type by the President: John Hancock, and which includes in part: "...Yet conclude not from this that we propose to surrender our property into the hands of your Ministry...our struggle will be glorious, our success certain, since even in death we shall find that freedom which in life you forbid us to enjoy...Soldiers who have sheathed their swords in the bowels of their American brethren will not draw them with more reluctance against you...A cloud hangs over your heads and ours; ere this reaches you, it may probably have burst upon us...Let us entreat Heaven to avert our ruin & the destruction that threatens our friends, brethren, & countrymen on the other side of the Atlantic."
A simply terrific letter which states the determined cause of the colonists, and which was prophetic as well for the Revolutionary War had already begun.
Complete in 4 pgs., folio size, archival repairs at the blank spine, generally nice.
Category: Revolutionary War
