To the President and Congress of the United States of America. : Penetrated with a lively conviction of the critical and very interesting situation of our national concerns, the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of Salem, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, are induced to present the following address...

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 11318.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--France.

United States.

International relations.

France.

France--Foreign relations--United States.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Salem, Mass.] : [Printed by Thomas C. Cushing], [1798]

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"We are fully satisfied with the measures taken by the supreme executive, for accommodating the differences subsisting between the United States and the French Republic; and it is with sincere regret we learn that those measures have been unsuccessful. We still wish for peace, and a restoration of harmony ... But should they remain implacable ... we repose a firm confidence in the wisdom ... for maintaining a vigorous defence ..."

Erroneously dated 1806 in Shaw & Shoemaker. The address also appeared in the May 1, 1798, issue of the Salem gazette published by Thomas C. Cushing.

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