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New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords. Very Good. 1802. First Edition. Removed Document. 2 p.l., 42 pages; Removed doument, which may lack a half title (2 p.l. - title and "advertis… Meer...

New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords. Very Good. 1802. First Edition. Removed Document. 2 p.l., 42 pages; Removed doument, which may lack a half title (2 p.l. - title and "advertisement"). Securely stitched-- minor defects along the gutter margin of the final leaf; paper age-toned throughout. Signed with flourish on the titlepage: "John Armstrong's" [copy]. (OCoLC) 2390943 ; LCCN 10034109 ; OCLC 612542483 [7 locations, including 4 in the US; AAS has a copy - (Catalog Record #282105); Shaw 2572. THE AUTHOR: McLeod was a preacher in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America and this sermon was delivered in its church in New York City. This was his first published work. "In the fall of 1800, a call was made on Mr. McLeod to the pastoral charge of the United Congregations of the city of New York, and Coldenham, in Orange county, in the same State. Mr. McLeod demurred, on the plea that there were slaveholders among the subscribers to the call. He urged this fact as reason for rejecting the call. The Presbytery now having this subject regularly brought before them, determined at once to purge our section of the church of the great evil of slavery. They enacted that no slaveholder should be allowed the communion of the church. Thus, at Mr. McLeod’s suggestion, the subject was acted upon, even before he became a member of Presbytery, and this inhuman and demoralizing practice was purged from our connection. It is true, it only required to be mentioned, and be regularly brought before the Court. There was no dissenting voice in condemning the nefarious traffic in human flesh. From that period forward, none either practising or abetting slavery in any shape, has been found on the records of our ecclesiastical connection."[Source : Wylie, Samuel Brown, D.D., Memoir of Alexander McLeod, D.D., New York (New York: Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1855), page 51.] John Armstrong (1758 – 1843) was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Congress under the Articles of Confederation -- which continued to refer to itself as the "Continental Congress". He later served as a U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War. After serving in the Revolutionary War, Armstrong moved to New York City and entered politics. Armstrong was a U.S. Senator from 1801-1802 when this address was delivered, and again from 1803-1804. In 1806, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Armstrong minister to France. At that time, Napoleon and Tallyrand were most unhappy with Jefferson's policy which passively encouraged U.S. merchant trade with the emancipated black revolutionary regime in France's colony Santo Domingo. Preying on racist fears of such insurrection spreading to the American South, the Republicans and Southern planters were able to pass legislation calling for U.S. support of the embargo, instigated by the French of the black-ruled island. Though reluctant to give up the lucrative trade, Jefferson authorized Armstrong to use embargo of Santa Domingo as a bargaining chip in order to obtain Napoleon's assistance in securing possession of the Floridas for the U.S. from Spain. U.S. support of the embargo failed to secure possession of the Floridas speedily, sacrificed the vitality of a major section of the economy, and abandonned the second revolutionary nation in the Americas to secure its independence alone. Henry Adams described the embargo as violating "the principles of international law ... and ... among the most disgraceful statutes ever enacted by the U.S. government." Armstrong served as Minister in Paris until September 1810. In 1806 he had also briefly also represented the United States at the court of Spain. When the War of 1812 broke out, Armstrong was called to military service. He was commissioned as a Brigadier General, and placed in charge of the defenses for the port of New York. Then in 1813 President Madison named him Secretary of War. ., Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1802, 3, New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Pr. New. 1993. Paperback. 1565840860 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 480 pages. "Because the institution of slavery has exerted such momentous force in shaping the socioeconomic and political history of the Caribbean, much of the region's historical writing has focused on slavery. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy brings together into one volume the main themes of the recent research on slavery, and explores the patterns and forms of socioeconomic life and activity that molded the region's heterogeneous slave societies." -- with a bonus offer ., New Pr, 1993, 6<