2021-10 Raynors HCA Live
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A complete and original issue of the National Intelligencer, June 20, 1812, 4pp., separated at the spine else VG. The entire issued is loaded with war reporting clinching with the 4th page, President Madison Proclamtion of War between the United Kingdom of Great Britain ... and the United States of America ..., in part, “Whereas the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the constituted authority vested in them, have declared by their act bearing date the 18th day of the present month that war exists between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the United States of America and their Territories: Now, therefore, I, James Madison, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim ..I do specially enjoin on all persons holding offices, civil or military, under the authority of the United States that they be vigilant and zealous in discharging the duties respectively incident thereto; and I do moreover exhort all the good people of the United States, as they love their country, as they value the precious heritage derived from the virtue and valor of their fathers, as they feel the wrongs which have forced on them the last resort of injured nations, and as they consult the best means under the blessing of Divine Providence ...” On the same page is the Congressional ACT Declaring the War of 1812.
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