Speech of Mr. John Quincy Adams, on the Case of Alexander McLeod. Delivered in the House of Representatives, September 4, 1841.
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1841. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 12 pages, untrimmed. Adams weighs in on the complicated point of international law surrounding an incident in the wake of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837; McLeod had been arrested in New York after bragging he had been among those..... More