Library of America #390

"An Oration, Delivered at the Public Commencement, in the University of Cambridge, in New England, July 18, 1787" -- Letters of Publicola, June 8-July 27, 1791 -- Letters of Marcellus, April 24-May 11, 1793 -- An Oration, Pronounced July 4th, 1793, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence -- An Oration, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1802. At the Anniversary Commemoration of the First Landing of our Ancestors, at that Place -- Letters of Publius Valerius, October 26-November 16, 1804 -- An Inaugural Oration, Delivered at the Author's Installation, as Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On Thursday, 12 June, 1806 -- A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, a Member of the Senate of Massachusetts, on the Present State of our National Affairs; with Remarks upon Mr. Pickering's Letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth (1808) -- The Defence of General Jackson's Conduct in the Seminole War, December 31, 1818 -- An Address delivered At the request of a Committee of the Citizens of Washington on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 -- Inaugural Address. March 4, 1825 -- First Annual Message. December 6, 1825 -- Message on the Panama Congress. March 15, 1826 -- Speech at the Dedication of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. July 4, 1828 -- An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the Fifty-fifth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America -- Report of the Minority of the Committee on Manufactures, submitted to the House of Representatives of the United States, February 28, 1833 -- Speech of John Quincy Adams, on the Joint Resolution for Distributing Rations to the Distressed Fugitives from Indian Hostilities in the States of Alabama and Georgia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, May 25, 1836. -- Letters from John Quincy Adams to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District in Massachusetts. To which is Added his Speech in Congress, Delivered February 9, 1837. -- The Jubilee of the Constitution (1839) -- Mr. Adams' Speech, on War with Great Britain and Mexico; with the Speeches of Messrs. Wise and Ingersoll, to which it is in reply (1842) -- Letter from Hon. John Quincy Adams, read at the recent celebration of West India Emancipation in Bangor, (Me.) [1843]

"John Quincy Adams was one of the most accomplished American statesmen of his or any era. He brought all his eloquence, erudition, and fierce energy to bear on the politics of the nation over the course of a remarkable career that spanned from the founding era to the sectional crisis that preceded the Civil War. Despite a persistent interest in this pivotal figure, there has never been a single-volume collection of Adams's essential political writings, until now. Here, for the first time in an edition for general readers and students alike, are the profound insights of a far-seeing political leader who was also a consummate American stylist. From his prophetic college commencement address in 1787 to his vigorous denunciation of slavery in 1843, this Library of America volume offers a compact and compelling record of America's fractious evolution as a democratic republic, presenting some of the most important political writings in our history."--Amazon