Public Documents, Containing Proceedings Of The Hartford Convention of Delegates [bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge]

Published by By order of the Senate of Massachusetts,, Boston:, 1815

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Very good+ in 1/2 dark brown, leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 5 5/8 inches with rubbing and wear to the leather front joint, and rubbing to the leather over the tips of the boards and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and another early prior owner's name written in ink at the upper edge of the title page. The book plate on the front paste down is that of Massachusetts Senator and historian, Henry Cabot Lodge a plate engraved by the Tiffany & Co.for Lodge with his family's coat-of-arms. 54 pages of text. The Hartford Convention was an outgrowth of discontent about the War of 1812 by Federalist Party members of the New England States. Twenty-six representatives from five New England States (Maine at the time was a territory of Massachusetts) met in closed sessions for three weeks in December 1814 to mid- January, 1815 to debate and write various proposed amendments to the Constitution to limit control of the Federal Government. Due to the secrecy of the meetings rummers spread about the members discussing secession from the United States. That was not the case. Secession had never been discussed. Nonetheless, the Hartford Convention became an extremely unpopular cause for the Federalists and it led to the eventual decline and ruin of that party. (Sabin, 45959).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Documents, Containing Proceedings Of The Hartford Convention of Delegates [bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge]
• Publisher: By order of the Senate of Massachusetts,, Boston:
• Publication Date: 1815
• Binding: Hardcover