Secretary of State, 1825-1829
Author | : Henry Clay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Clay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Contents--v. 1. The rising statesman, 1797-1814.
Author | : Henry Clay |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081315670X |
This fourth volume in the ten-volume series covers the career of Henry Clay during his first year as Secretary of State in the cabinet of President John Quincy Adams. Within a month after taking office, Henry Clay described the Department of State as "no bed of roses." Even though routine papers bearing his signature have been omitted by the editors, the 950 pages of documents included in this volume show that many duties filled Clay's days and nights. The evidence in autograph drafts and the meagerness of revision in the official documents indicate the need for major reconsideration of Clay's role in United States foreign relations during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. The range of issues emerging in these papers is broad, and the duties were obviously more than the limited staff of the Department of State could satisfactorily perform. But if, as a result, the United States suffered a major diplomatic defeat during the British revision of trade regulations, Clay's instructions to the Panama mission marked him as a statesman of world stature. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Author | : William Henry Seward |
Publisher | : Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby, Miller |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
Author | : Henry Clay |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 1468 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813130491 |
For Secretary of State Henry Clay and the Adams administration, 1827 is a year of crisis. Turbulent relations with Latin America are marked by the seizure of American trading vessels off Montevideo. Border strife with Britain threatens in northern Maine, while American retaliation for the closing of the British West Indies to U.S. trade provokes warnings of war from the opposition in Congress. With the campaign for the next presidency in full swing, Clay is again forced to defend himself against Andrew Jackson's charges of "bribery and corruption." Opposition gains in the fall elections foreshadow Jackson's 1828 victory, but at year's end, the resilient Clay continues to hope. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Author | : Robert V. Remini |
Publisher | : Times Books |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466871865 |
A vivid portrait of a man whose pre- and post-presidential careers overshadowed his presidency. Chosen president by the House of Representatives after an inconclusive election against Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams often failed to mesh with the ethos of his era, pushing unsuccessfully for a strong, consolidated national government. Historian Robert V. Remini recounts how in the years before his presidency Adams was a shrewd, influential diplomat, and later, as a dynamic secretary of state under President James Monroe, he solidified many basic aspects of American foreign policy, including the Monroe Doctrine. Undoubtedly his greatest triumph was the negotiation of the Transcontinental Treaty, through which Spain acknowledged Florida to be part of the United States. After his term in office, he earned the nickname "Old Man Eloquent" for his passionate antislavery speeches.
Author | : Henry Clay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Contents--v. 1. The rising statesman, 1797-1814.
Author | : John Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-12-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540530219 |
John Adams' "State of the Union" is a classic work read by book lovers, students and scholars. This is a special edition which exposes readers to a variety of English phrases and terminology from this genre. Excerpt from State of the Union by John Quincy Adams:By an act of Congress of the 3rd of March last a loan of $12,000,000 was authorized at 4.5%, or an exchange of stock to that amount of 4.5% for a stock of 6%, to create a fund for extinguishing an equal amount of the public debt, bearing an interest of 6%, redeemable in 1826. An account of the measures taken to give effect to this act will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury. As the object which it had in view has been but partially accomplished, it will be for the consideration of Congress whether the power with which it clothed the Executive should not be renewed at an early day of the present session, and under what modifications.The act of Congress of the 3d of March last, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe, in the name and for the use of the United States, for 1,500 shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company,
Author | : United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Printed form, filled in, signed by "J.Q. Adams" and Secretary of the Navy "Sam. L. Southard," appointing John H. Maulsby, Midshipman in the United States Navy. Dated "this twenty seventh day of October" 1825. With notation "Registered R. Maury." Docketed on verso: "Resignation __ J.H. Maulsby." Document signed (DS).
Author | : Mary W. M. Hargreaves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings." Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest. The volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.
Author | : Paul C. Nagel |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2012-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307828190 |
February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker’s chamber. The public mourning that followed, writes Paul C. Nagel, “exceeded anything previously seen in America. Forgotten was his failed presidency and his often cold demeanor. It was the memory of an extraordinary human being—one who in his last years had fought heroically for the right of petition and against a war to expand slavery—that drew a grateful people to salute his coffin in the Capitol and to stand by the railroad tracks as his bier was transported from Washington to Boston.” Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned many offices: minister to Holland, Russia, and England, U.S. senator, secretary of state, president of the United States (1825-1829), and, finally, U.S. representative (the only ex-president to serve in the House). On the basis of a thorough study of Adams’ seventy-year diary, among a host of other documents, the author gives us a richer account than we have yet had of JQA’s life—his passionate marriage to Louisa Johnson, his personal tragedies (two sons lost to alcoholism), his brilliant diplomacy, his recurring depression, his exasperating behavior—and shows us why, in the end, only Abraham Lincoln’s death evoked a great out-pouring of national sorrow in nineteenth-century America. We come to see how much Adams disliked politics and hoped for more from life than high office; how he sought distinction in literacy and scientific endeavors, and drew his greatest pleasure from being a poet, critic, translator, essayist, botanist, and professor of oratory at Harvard; how tension between the public and private Adams vexed his life; and how his frustration kept his masked and aloof (and unpopular). Nagel’s great achievement, in this first biography of America’s sixth president in a quarter century, is finally to portray Adams in all his talent and complexity.