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[FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL - EXTRA.] PANAMA MISSION. WASHINGTON, MARCH 15, 1826 [caption title].

[FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL - EXTRA.] PANAMA MISSION. WASHINGTON, MARCH 15, 1826 [caption title]. by Adams, John Quincy:

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[FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL - EXTRA.] PANAMA MISSION. WASHINGTON, MARCH 15, 1826 [caption title].
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Adams, John Quincy:
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[Washington, D.C. , 1826].. The Great Diplomat Explains the Importance of Participating in a Pan-American Conference, Printed on Silk A rare broadside, printed on silk, reproducing the text of President John Quincy Adams' March 15, 1826, message to the House of Representatives, in which he calls for sending an American delegation to the upcoming Panama Congress. Organized by Simón Bolívar in an effort to bring together the various governments of the Americas to discuss issues of regional security and cooperation, the Panama Congress was held from June 22 to July 15, 1826. John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1824, had been involved in the shaping of American foreign policy his entire career. In 1778, at just barely twenty years of age, he accompanied his father on John Adams' diplomatic mission to Europe during the Revolution, and he also served for a time as secretary to the American minister to Russia. In 1794 George Washington appointed him U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, and later that decade he served in the same posts in Portugal and Prussia. James Madison appointed Adams as the first American ambassador to Russia in 1809, and a few years later he was instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812. Adams' greatest feats in diplomacy, however, came as Secretary of State to President James Monroe, during which he negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain, which brought Florida and land along the Gulf Coast to the United States, and which also further defined the boundary between the United States and Mexico. Adams was also instrumental in the crafting of the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers from interfering in the affairs of the emerging independent republics in South America. John Quincy Adams saw this proposed conference of American states as a means to further principles of inter-American trade, freedom of the seas, and non-colonization among the American states. In late 1825 he appointed commissioners to attend the Congress, but Adams faced stiff resistance from those in Congress who, for various reasons, opposed United States participation in the Panama mission. Some objected, citing George Washington's famous warning against engaging in foreign entanglements. Congressional Southerners opposed the mission because many of the topics to be addressed at the Panama Congress - the status of Cuba, the abolition of the slave trade, and diplomatic recognition of Haiti - touched on the sensitive issue of slavery. With this March 15th message, Adams hoped to meet these objections head on, observing that "objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the Congress of Panama, whether we are represented there or not." Adams, as always, is realistic. It is unlikely, he concedes, that "the Congress at Panama will accomplish all, or even any of the transcendent benefits to the human race, which warmed the conceptions of its first proposer," but, he insists, "the design is great, is benevolent, is humane. It looks to the melioration of the condition of man. It is congenial with that spirit which prompted our declaration of independence which inspired the preamble of our first treaty with France; which dictated our first Treaty with Prussia, and the instructions under which it was negotiated, which filled the hearts, and fired the souls of the immortal founders of our revolution." Writing of Adams' message of March 15, 1826, his great biographer, Samuel Flagg Bemis, notes that "It was one of the most important papers of his diplomatic career, and to it he summoned all the powers of his rhetoric, all the weight of his experience. With great eloquence he replied, one by one, to the objections that had been raised." The present broadside, printed on silk, is signed in type at bottom by John Quincy Adams. The broadside notes that the text is "From the National Journal - extra." At the time of cataloguing, OCLC locates one copy of the National Journal's broadside edition of the message, printed on paper and published in Washington, D.C., located at the Massachusetts Historical Society. A rare and attractive example of a 19th-century broadside printed on silk and carrying a presidential message of much international import. Old folds. Some foxing and staining on verso. Annotation in ink to verso. Very good. OCLC 85437978 (another ed.). Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), pp.537-65, especially p.554.

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