8vo. 10 leaves, signed at the end by Joseph B. Varnum and eight others, Washington City, November 30, 1808.
Sabin 69677.
Not in Johnston.
In defence of the Embargo, written in answer to resolutions by the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts
requesting the representatives of that state in congress, to use their most strenuous exertions to procure an immediate repeal
of the ruinous laws imposing an embargo on the ships and vessels of the United States.
The legislature of Massachusetts wrote also to Jefferson, who on November 18 sent the resolutions to Varnum: “
You will percieve in the inclosed petitions a request that I will lay them before Congress. this I cannot do consistently
with my own opinion of propriety, because where the petitioners have a right to petition their immediate representatives in
Congress directly, I have deemed it neither necessary nor proper for them to pass their petition through the intermediate
channel of the Executive. but as the petitioners may be ignorant of this and, confiding in it, may omit the proper measure,
I have usually put such petitions into the hands of the representatives of the state, informally to be used or not as they
think best, and considering me as entirely disclaiming any agency in the case. with this view I take the liberty of placing
these papers in your hands, not as Speaker of the house, but as one of the representatives of the state from which they came.
whether they should be handed on to the representatives of the particular districts (which are unknown to me) yourself will
be the best judge . . .
”
Joseph Bradley Varnum, 1750-1821, Senator from Massachusetts and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives. This is the
second edition; the first was printed in Salem in the same year.
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10. GILES,
William Branch.
Mr. Giles’ Speech, delivered in Senate of the United States, on Thursday, 24 November, 1808, on the Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, to
repeal the Embargo Laws.
Without name of place or printer [
1808].
18 leaves, caption title, uncut.
Sabin 27376,
note.
Not in Johnston.
William Branch Giles, 1762-1830, Virginian statesman, was a supporter of Jefferson.
James Hillhouse, 1754-1832, congressman and federalist, introduced in 1808 a resolution for the repeal of the Embargo.
See also no. 3458.
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11. GILES,
William Branch.
Mr. Giles’ speech in the Senate of the United States, on the Resolution offered by Mr. Hillhouse to repeal the several acts laying
an Embargo, December 2, 1808.
Without name of place or printer [
1808].
10 leaves, caption title.
Sabin 27376,
note.
Not in Johnston.
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12. SMITH,
Samuel.
Gen. S. Smith’s Speech, delivered In the Senate of the United States, on Monday, 28th November, 1808, on the Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse,
to repeal the Embargo Laws.
Without name of place or printer [
1808].
8vo. 12 leaves, caption title.
Sabin 83986.
Not in Johnston.
Samuel Smith, 1752-1839, soldier and statesman, was the brother of Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy. Smith was a member of Congress
for Maryland, and a United States Senator. He was a Jeffersonian Republican in politics.
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13. ANDERSON,
Joseph.
Judge Anderson’s Speech. Delivered in the Senate of the United States. On Thursday the 1st. day of December, on the resolution offered by
Mr. Hillhouse,
