8vo. 24 leaves in fours.
Halkett and Laing 1, 284.
Cushing,
Anonyms, page 94.
Sabin 9637 (attributed to G. B. Butler).
Gervase Parker Bushe, 1744?-1793, was attaché to his Majesty’s legation in the District of Frankfort. The manuscript of the first edition (published
earlier in the same year) may have been sent from Frankfort; the author’s statement at the beginning reads as follows:
In this edition, the author has endeavoured to remedy some of the greatest defects of the preceding one, many of which were
owing to himself, and some, to an accident which befel the manuscript, which was sent from some distance, to London. He is
far from flattering himself, that this publication is free from many errors; but as he hopes that it is less imperfect than
the former one, he wishes that the first edition of this pamphlet may be forgotten.
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3-4. [DICKINSON,
John.]
The Farmer’s and Monitor’s Letters, To The Inhabitants Of The British Colonies.
Williamsburg: Printed by
William Rind,
m dcc lxix
[1769].
E215.5 .D559
Sm. 4
to. 2 parts in 1 with continuous signatures and pagination, 54 leaves: [ ]
1, A-K, K (repeated), L-O
2, P
3, Q-Z, Aa-Bb
2; the half-title for
The Monitor on Q
1. Signature K and the pagination numerals, 33-36, are repeated, the text is correctly printed.
Halkett and Laing II, 267.
Sabin 20052.
Evans 11239.
Clayton-Torrence 349.
Unbound, the first leaf mounted. Initialled at sig. I and T by Jefferson, who has written
By John Dickinson on the title-page, and
By Arthur Lee M.D. on the half-title for
The Monitor. The second part is separately numbered, 4, on the title-page.
On the last page is a poem by the two authors:
THE LIBERTY SONG
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Come join hand in hand, brave AMERICANS all,
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And rouse your bold hearts at fair LIBERTY’S call;
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No tyrannous acts shall suppress your free claim,
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Or stamp the word SLAVE, on AMERICA’S name.
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In freedom we’re born, and in freedom we’ll live,
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Our money is ready,
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Steady, boys, steady,
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Let’s give it as Freemen, but never as Slaves.
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II.
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Our worthy Forefathers, let’s give them a cheer,
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To climates they knew not, full bravely did steer,
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Thro’ oceans, to desarts, in freedom they came,
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And dying, bequeath’d us their freedom and fame.
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In freedom, etc.
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III.
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The Tree their own hands had to liberty rear’d,
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Deep rooted in earth, grew strong and rever’d:
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Then, from all assaults, we this tree will maintain,
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And leave to you children the fruit of our pain.
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In freedom, etc.
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IV.
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Here’s a health to our King, and the Nation at home,
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AMERICA and BRITAIN should ever be one:
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In liberty’s cause, we united shall stand
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The envy and dread of each neighbouring land,
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In freedom, etc.
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V.
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Then join hand in hand, brave AMERICANS all,
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By uniting, we stand, by dividing, we fall;
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In so righteous a cause, we must surely succeed,
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For Heaven approves of each generous deed.
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In freedom, etc.
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Arthur Lee, 1740-1792, diplomat, was born in Virginia, and studied law in London in Lincoln’s Inn and the Middle Temple. In 1776 he
was appointed one of the Commissioners to France (in place of Jefferson who had declined), with Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin.
Concerning Lee, Jefferson wrote from Paris to James Monroe on June 17, 1785 (partly in cipher, here transcribed): “
. . . I am sorry to see a possibility of A. L.’s being put into the Treasury. He has no talents for the office, and what he
has will be employed in rummaging old accounts to involve you in eternal war with R. M. and he will in a short time introduce
such dissensions into the Commission as to break it up. If he goes on the other appointment to Kaskaskia he will produce a
revolt of that settlement from the U. S. . . .
”
In a letter to John Adams, addressed from Monticello on August 22, 1813, discussing the ascription of the petition to the
King, 1774, by John Marshall to Richard Henry Lee, Jefferson wrote of the latter: “
. . . he was a poorer writer than his brother Arthur; and Arthur’s standing may be seen in his Monitor’s ”
