Blount, William | The first impeachment of a federal official

Blount, William 

Proceedings on the Impeachment of William Blount, a Senator of the United States from Tennessee, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Philadelphia: Joseph Gales, 1799

8vo (223 x 132 mm). Foxing, browning, and staining. Half red morocco and cloth covered boards, spine gilt-lettered; extremities rubbed/

First edition. "Blount, one of the first senators from Tennessee and an ardent speculator in western land, had been caught out in a scheme with the British ministers to incite the Creeks and Cherokees to aid the British in an effort to take Florida and Louisiana from the Spanish. He was expelled from the Senate, the first of his kind" (Streeter). 

REFERENCE

Cohen 14450; ESTC W6612; Evans 36561; Federal Hundred 76; Howes B548 ("aa); Sabin 6002