ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph manuscript signed (“John Quincy Adams”), n.p., c.1844-1845.
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ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph manuscript signed (“John Quincy Adams”), n.p., c.1844-1845.

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ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph manuscript signed (“John Quincy Adams”), n.p., c.1844-1845.

One page, 180 x 185mm; matted and framed (abrasion to upper left corner, touching two words; not examined out of frame).

Adams pens a fair copy of his historic 3 December 1844 resolution that rescinded the notorious "Gag Rule." In May 1836, the U.S. House of Representatives instituted the “gag rule,” essentially forbidding consideration of anti-slavery petitions. John Quincy Adams passionately objected and fought against it through four Congresses, finally gaining enough votes to repeal it on 3 December 1844. “And this resolution, after the rejection by yeas and neas 80 to 104 of a motion to lay the same on the table, was on the same day adopted by yeas and neas 108 to 80.” Framed with an engraved portrait of Adams.