Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Together with the Governor's Communications, &c. to the Court. Begun and held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Twenty-seventh day of May, Anno Domini - MDCCCI.
Boston: Printed by Young & Minns, 1801. 32 pp. Folio. Stitched, in original plain wrappers. First edition. Wrappers creased, some wear and browning on edges, small chip to first leaf, otherwise a very good untrimmed copy, Shaw & Shoemaker 900. Item #35320
Caleb Strong's message focussed on education, religious observance, and support for the militia, though it begins with a plea for decorum and support for the elected President and warns against abuses by the Press: "Still a sense of decorum, and regard to justice, and the public welfare, should exclude asperity and false-colouring from every discussion of public measures; for the morals and liberties of the people will be in danger, if the free presses in the United States are disgracefully prostituted to faction and falsehood." Two hundred years later and nothing has changed.
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