Item #35321 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-sixth day of May, Anno Domini - MDCCCII. Massachusetts.

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-sixth day of May, Anno Domini - MDCCCII.

Boston: Printed by Young & Minns, 1802. 32 pp. Folio. Disbound. First edition. Title page browned, torn, a few interior tears, edges creased and ragged, but still a good untrimmed copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 2627. Item #35321

Includes Caleb Strong's message attacking partisanship: "There is no evil to which free governments are more exposed, than the prevalence of party spirit. The extreme violence of this spirit degrades the character of a nation, and vitiates the morals of the people; it has proved fatal to almost every other Republick, either by enabling a successful Chief to establish his empire on its ruins or by weaning its ability to oppose foreign invasion; it tends to pervert the judgment as well as corrupt the heart, and renders the subjects of it, unspcial and intolerant."

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