Davis, Timothy (1821-1888). - The Privateer System. Speech of Hon. Timothy Davis, of Mass. , on the Bill to Grant Bounty Land to the Officers and Crews of Privateer Vessels Engaged in the Various Wars of the United States. Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 23, 1856.

[Washington, D.C.]: Towers, printers, [1856]. [1856]. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-14 inches wide. Printed self-wraps. The darkened cover pages are detached. 16 pages. Once folded with 2 horizontal creases. The edges of the pages are chipped with creases to the corners. A fair working copy. Privately owned and manned, privateers were armed ships that were commissioned by the government to harass and fight enemy ships. "These old priveteersmen you have as yet failed to recognize. I do not speak too highly of these men, but only utter the simple truth, and the record of the past in the country proves it; and that they should be forgotten is amazing to them, at least, and appears unaccountable to all classes who have noticed with pride the bold and manly and self-sacrificing manner in which they entered into the service of the government.." [Quoted from the first page]. Born in Gloucester Timothy Davis (1821-1888) was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. A delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860, he went on to serve as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and was then elected to the U.S. Congress as a candidate of the American party and subsequently as a Republican. Fair .

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