President John Quincy Adams Rare Ephemera
Posted by Richard Gabriel on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 @ 09:36 AM
We are featuring a number of rare Presidential ephemera, printed during the life of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States and the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States. The listing of rare ephemera will be found on our next auction starting on Sunday morning February 27, 2011, EST at our eBay page. Follow the links and see some rare Presidential printed material. Not as pricy as signed documents but very collectable and rare Presidential ephemera, if you are collecting Presidential items these should certainly interest you. All First Editions with limited printing. On are list of offerings are:
1. 1826 Message from the President about Mexico and Pledge of the U.S. also noted Henry Clay in addtion to John Quincy Adams.
2. 1831 Eulogy on the Life and Character of James Monroe by John Quincy Adams. J.Q. Adams served under Monroe.
3. 1839 The Jubilee of the Constitution etc. by John Quincy Adams. As a young man, J.Q. was an intergral part of the Revolution and acompanied his father John Adams to Paris...
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. The name "Quincy" came from Abigail's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named. As a diplomat, Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State. Historians agree he was one of the great diplomats in American history.
As president, he proposed a program of modernization and educational advancement, but was stymied by Congress, controlled by his enemies. Adams lost his 1828 bid for re-election to Andrew Jackson. In doing so, he became the first President since his father to serve a single term. As president, he presented a vision of national greatness resting on economic growth and a strong federal government, but his presidency was not a success as he lacked political adroitness, popularity or a network of supporters, and ran afoul of politicians eager to undercut him.
Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his deeply conservative and ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values. More recently he has been portrayed as the exemplar and moral leader in an era of modernization when new technologies and networks of infrastructure and communication brought to the people messages of religious revival, social reform, and party politics, as well as moving goods, money and people ever more rapidly and efficiently.
Adams was elected a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to do so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency. Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery, Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power and argued that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Adams predicted the dissolution of the Union on the slavery issue, though he mistakenly predicted that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave insurrections.