[Autograph Letter Signed] 'Patriot' Editor H.H. Carroll to New Hampshire Senator Charles G. Atherton on John Quincy Adams Avoiding Censure over the "Atherton Gag" Rule.
Washington [NH]: 1842. [3] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Written February 8, 1842, a day after the House voted 106 to 93 not to censure John Quincy Adams for speaking out against slavery in the face of a “gag rule” one of which was known as the "Atherton Gag"..... More