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Repairing the destruction from the British invasion in Washington, D.C...   Graphic on the 'Hartford Convention'...
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Repairing the destruction from the British invasion in Washington, D.C... Graphic on the 'Hartford Convention'...

Item # 708865 ·
THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE, New York, Nov. 25, 1814  This issue has reports on the closing, climatic months of the War of 1812.
Content includes a letter from Jacob Brown on his work at the Niagara frontier, an editorial beginning: "In celebration of the anniversary of the evacuation of this city by the British, a military parade will take place..."; followed by: "Public Buildings ate Washington" noting in part: "...a bill making appropriations for repairing or rebuilding the public buildings in the city of Washington..." that were destroyed by the British in August. There are a number of Resolutions which relate to reconstruction efforts from the British invasion & destruction a few months previous.
The entire back page is taken up with text and a large graphic of the: "Comparative View Of The American Confederation, With the Hartford Convention States."
 The Hartford Convention was a secret meeting in Hartford, of Federalist delegates from New England states who were dissatisfied with Madison’s mercantile policies and the progress of the War of 1812 , as well as long resentful over the balance of political power that gave the South, particularly Virginia, effective control of the national government.
The significance of this issue is amplified by its publisher, Naphtali Phillips, a prominent Jewish-American journalist of the early Republic who famously pulled the very first printed copy of Washington's Farewell Address off the press in 1796. He was also married to the daughter of Moses Seixas—the famed leader of Newport’s Touro Synagogue whose historic 1790 letter to George Washington prompted the President's immortal declaration that the U.S. government "gives to bigotry no sanction."
Complete in 4 pages, typical foxing and wear, otherwise good.
Category: War of 1812
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.