[Adams, John Quincy]. Broadside. National Intelligencer Extra, President's Message, 5 December 1826,...

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[Adams, John Quincy]. Broadside. National Intelligencer Extra, President's Message, 5 December 1826, Broadside. National Intelligencer Extra, entitled President's Message, Washington, D.C., 5 December 1826, 17.75 x 21.25 in. (451 x 540 mm.), being John Quincy Adams' second State of the Union Address. Light scattered spots and stains with some areas on margins expertly infilled (not affecting text); minor chipping on right margin. National Intelligencer Extra reporting John Quincy Adams' State of the Union Address, including the July 4th anouncement to the Nation of the same day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The closing paragraph of Adams' address reads in part: In closing this communication I trust that it will not be deemed inappropriate to the occasion and purposes upon which we are here assembled to indulge a momentary retrospect, combining in a single glance the period of our origin as a national confederation with that of our present existence, at the precise interval of half a century from each other. Since your last meeting at this place the 50th anniversary of the day when our independence was declared has been celebrated throughout our land, and on that day, while every heart was bounding with joy and every voice was tuned to gratulation, amid the blessings of freedom and independence which the sires of a former age had handed down to their children, two of the principal actors in that solemn scene - the hand that penned the ever memorable Declaration and the voice that sustained it in debate - were by one summons, at the distance of 700 miles from each other, called before the Judge of All to account for their deeds done upon the earth. They departed cheered by the benedictions of their country, to whom they left the inheritance of their fame and the memory of their bright example...John Quincy Adams Very rare, only two other examples have been located (New York State Historical and the Huntington Library).