Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 18th century

Resolved, that it is expedient to pass the laws necessary to carry into effect the treaty lately concluded between the United States and the King of Great-Britain. Half title: Mr. Ames's speech in the House of Representatives of the United States, Thursday, April 28, 1796. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-F⁴ G². Engraved head and tail pieces; initial. "Price 25 cents" in square brackets in imprint. FAU Libraries' copy edges untrimmed.

by Samuel Austin, A.M. Oration pronounced at Worcester, on the 4th of July, 1798 Published by a committee of the citizens of Worcester and neighboring towns. Engraved head and tail pieces; initial.

By Stephen Sewall, A.M. Hancock Professor of the Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. ; [Two lines from Solomon].

President George Washington's farewell address, September 27, 1796 in Italian. The President's address to the people of the United States, announcing his intention of retiring from public life at the expiration of the present constitutional term of presidency. Dated "17 Settembre" at end.

Half-title: Oration delivered March fifth, 1776. Notes: "This oration against standing armies was delivered at Watertown during the siege of Boston, and is said to be the rarest of all the separate issues of the Boston massacre orations. Its popularity was so great that it was frequently reprinted."--Church catalogue, vol. 5, page 2258. On page [4]: "At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, legally assembled at Watertown, March 5th, 1776... Attest. William Cooper, town-clerk." Signatures: [A]² B-D² (D2 blank). Title within mourning border (double rule). FAU Libraries' own two copies. First copy edges trimmed to 20 cm., side stiched with brown cord. Second copy imperfect: half-title page, title page, and verso wanting. Title page and verso supplied in photostat facsimile. Page [5], has inscription in ink: Peter Thacher 1776. Bound in marbled paper on cardboard covers; inside of front cover has label: The property of Samuel Doggett.

By the Honorable John Hancock, Esquire. ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil].nSignatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (C4 verso blank). Authorship of the oration has been attributed to Samuel Adams, to Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, and to Samuel Cooper. See T.R. Adams, who notes "In all probability a number of Boston radicals had a hand in the work." On page [3]: "At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, duly assembled at Faneuil-hall... on Saturday the fifth of March, Anno. Dom.1774... William Cooper, town clerk."Libraries own 4 copies the other 3 were printed : 1 in New Port