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Dates:

10 May 1813

Original paper slip text:10 May 1813.

Author's location:

Quincy

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Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

David Humphreys

Original paper slip text:to David Humphreys

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Length:

1 p.

Notes:

Accessioned when held by private owner, now in ICN. --SEG, 12/21/11
ALS sold, Ben Bloomfield, N.Y., List No. DI-5, n.d., item 4, $200.00, and List No. DI-9, n.d., item 2, $150.00
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AN EXTRAORDINARY LETTER
ADAMS, John. 2nd President. ALS, 1p., 4to., May 10, 1813. Written during the War of 1813. To [Col.] David Humphreys. Expertly silked on verso.
Speaking of General Dearborn's campaign against York (now Toronto, Canada) and Niagara, Adams writes:-
"Dearborn's Generalship .... is bold. It is setting an Example. SUCH AN ACT OF WASHINGTON WOULD HAVE SECURED HIM IMMORTALITY" etc.
Then comes this astonishing prediction:-
"We are to have a Partisan War upon the Lakes, and upon the American and British Borders of those Lakes. EITHER CANADA MUST CONQUER U.S. or U.S. MUST CONQUER CANADA. Never will there be, never can there be, tranquillity to either, TILL ONE OR THE OTHER IS MASTER. AMERICA, North and South, must be TOTALLY, ABSOLUTELY, AND ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM EUROPE, OR IT MUST BE SUBJECTED TO EUROPE, OR IT MUST BE EVERLASTINGLY QUARRELLING WITH EUROPE."
Etc.
$200.00
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 12/10/2015

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