1810 Election Sermon Attacking Jefferson and the Jeffersonian Republicans

Parish, Elijah. A Sermon, preached at Boston, before His Excellency Christopher Gore, Governor, His Honor David Cobb, Lieut. Governor, the Council and Legislature, upon the Annual Election, May 30, 1810. Boston: Printed by Subscription, 1810. First Edition. [11054] Removed, no wrappers, 8 1/2 x 5 inches, 24 pages, foxing. Good. Pamphlet. A controversial sermon that the Legislature refused to put into print. "The Discourse is printed by private subscription. A majority of the Honourable House of Representatives, against the usage of a century and a half, in like instances, not only refused to observe the customary form of civility; and ask a copy for the press; but passed a resolution containing high charges against the Sermon, and purporting that the dignity of the House forbade the usual courtesy to the preacher." - verso of tp. "In 1810 he delivered the annual election sermon, in which he assailed the National [Federal] administration with such acrimony that the legislature declined