Quincy, Josiah. American statesman. Born in Boston, 1772. Was bred to the bar, and entered Congress in 1804, where he distinguished himself by his oratory as leader of the Federal Party, as the sworn foe of slave-holding, and as an opponent of the admission of the western states into the Union. In 1812 he retired from Congress, gave himself for a time to purely local affairs in Massachusetts, and at length to literary labors, editing his speeches, but without ceasing to interest himself in the anti-slavery movement. Died 1864.

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