Adjourned meeting of the citizens. : Agreeably to adjournment on the 18th of May instant, an uncommonly numerous and respectable meeting of the citizens of Charleston took place this day at the Circular Church, to receive the report of their committee of seventeen ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geddes, John, 1777-1828.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25050.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defenses.

United States--History--War of 1812.

United States.

History.

United States--Politics and government--1812-1815.

Politics and government.

South Carolina--Defenses.

South Carolina.

Charleston (S.C.)--History--War of 1812.

Charleston (S.C.).

Charleston (S.C.)--Politics and government.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Memorials (Legal)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Charleston, S.C.] : [publisher not identified], [1812]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Recommending a declaration of war against "the belligerents of Europe" and the implementation of appropriate defensive measures.

"Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be signed by the chairman, in behalf of this meeting, and forwarded without delay to the president of the United States, to our senators and respresentatives in Congress, and to the governor of the state."

The original, held by the National Archives, is signed in ms. by John Geddes, chairman and John D. Heath, secretary. A later edition (Shaw & Shoemaker 27352) has title: Resolutions of the citizens of Charleston, approbatory of the measures of government. June 12th, 1812. Printed by order of the Senate United States (Washington, D.C., 1812).

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25050).

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