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Monroes wishes the Senate follow England's lead on the slave trade...

Item # 700996
July 14, 1824
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., July 14, 1824  The front page has a lengthy report under the heading; "The Secretary of State", with the second column having a letter to the Senate, signed in type: Jame Monroe, concerning England having ratified the suppression of the African slave trade. Monroe notes: "...Motives of accommodation to the wishes of the British government render it desirable that the Senate should act definitely upon this Convention as speedily as may be found convenient."
Page 3 has a curious article: "Anatomical Phenomena" discovered in a cadaver.
Four pages, nice condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #366 - released for May, 2026