A Sermon, Preached at Charlestown, November 29, 1798, on the Anniversary Thanksgiving in Massachusetts : with An Appendix, Designed to illustrate some parts of the Discourse : exhibiting proofs of the early existence, progress, and deleterious effects of French intrigue and influence in the United States
No place stated: Printed by The De Vinne Press, 1912.
Reprint. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #16943
Boards with bumped creasing and edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Jedidiah Morse, author of the first American geography and gazetteer, minister of the Congregational Church in Charlestown, and father of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, delivered a sermon that was both a Thanksgiving celebration of the blessings of United States as well as a Federalist political warning that drifting from American values of religion and virtue endangers the country. In particular, Morse warned of the dangers of subversive societies of Illuminati, Freemasonry, and French radicalism from the French Revolution, threatening social disorder, irreligious behavior and hostility to republican stability. This 1912 printing reprints the 1799 edition of Morse's Sermon, a foldout facsimile of a letter from George Washington to Morse, the inscription on Jedidiah Morse's cemetery monument, and a two page genealogy of the Morse descent from 1606, through Jedidiah Morse's son Richard Carey Morse and Richard's daughter Elizabeth Anne Breeze Morse Colgate and her six progeny. The first printed page states: "This reprint of the Thanksgiving sermon of The Reverend Jedidiah Morse, D D, has been made for his descendants, especially for the children, grandchildren and great-granddaughter of his granddauther, Elizabeth Anne Breeze Morse who was married on March 30, 1853, to Samuel Colgate. The letter from George Washington here reproduced is now in the possession of the great-grandson of Jedidiah Morse, Gilbert Colgate, of New York City. Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, 1912." Bound in marbled paper boards and cloth spine, with deckled edges to the text. ; 88, (6) pages.
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