Oration on the Birth of Washington by Robert Goodloe Harper.

• imprint_number: 1810.050
• title: An oration, on the birth of Washington; delivered before the Washington Society of Alexandria, by Robert Goodloe Harper, one of its members, on the 22d. of February, A.D. 1810. And published by its order.
• sequence_number: 50
• year: 1810
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Samuel Snowden
• author: Harper, Robert Goodloe (1765-1825).
• notes: Harper, formerly a Federalist congressman from South Carolina, was practicing law in nearby Baltimore at this time, and would be elected later in the year as president of the Washington Society of Maryland; he was also an alternate (and unsolicited) candidate for Vice-President among Federalists in 1816, though not the choice of the national party caucus, while briefly serving as a U.S. senator from Maryland after military service in the War of 1812.
  
  
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