Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
The Pennsylvania Journal, and The Weekly Advertiser, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 10 x 15.5, dated Saturday, June 16, 1787. The first column of the third page is devoted to the Constitutional Convention being held in Philadelphia. Deliberations had begun in Philadelphia's Independence Hall on May 25th when there were enough delegates from the requisite number of States to form a quorum. Listed in the paper in "an exact list of the members of the Convention" are 52 names headed by "His Excellency George Washington" and "His Excellency Benjamin Franklin, now President of Pennsylvania."
In the next column is a report of the views of British political writer Joseph Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, "respecting the benefits which might accrue to America from its Independence, and seems to entertain a contemptable opinion of them…as to the future grandure of America, says he and its being a rising Empire, under one head, whether republican, or monarchical, it is one of the idealist, and most visionary notions, that was ever conceived, even by writers of romance. For there is nothing in the genius of the people, the situation of their country, or the nature of their different climates, which tends to countenance such a supposition…Moreover, when the intersections and divisions of their country, by the great bays of the sea, and by vast rivers, lakes, and ridges of mountains; ---and above all, when those immense inland regions, beyond the back settlements, which are still unexplored, are taken into the account, they form the highest probability that the Americans never can be united into one compact empire, under any species of Government whatever. Their fate seems to be ---a disunited people, 'till the end of time.” The paper’s patriotic editor then follows with his response to Tucker’s report. Paper has been bound in slightly larger pale blue wrappers. In very good condition, with old repaired tear to lower right of second page, uniform toning, previous intersecting storage folds, and a bit of light foxing.
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