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(GASTON). WARD, ARTEMUS [& WILLIAM GASTON]. Speeches of...Artemus Ward [and William Gaston]...on the Fifth Day of March, 1814, on a Bill Making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Establishment. Boston: Stebbins, 1814. 8vo. 59 pp. Removed. Lightly foxed. $85.00
S & S 33570. Sabin 101280. Also issued at Washington. On p. 25 begins William Gaston's speech upon the Loan Bill: "His speeches in support of the Bank of the United States and in opposition to the Loan Bill, which proposed to entrust the president with $25,000,000 for the conquest of Canada, won for him a national reputation...Gaston was a caustic critic of the administration's war policies, and was charged with a want of patriotism, to which he retorted with great indignation: 'I was baptised an American in the blood of a murdered father.'" --DAB. Gaston served in Congress only from 1813-17.