“
anxiety to trim between both, those who know his character & capacity will decide. were parties here divided merely by a greediness
for office, as in England, to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. but where the principle
of difference is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans & the monocrats of our country I hold
it as honorable to take a firm & decided part, and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of Honest men,
& Rogues, into which every country is divided.
"
A copy of the pamphlet came by this post to Charlottesville. I suppose we shall be able to judge soon what kind of impression
it is likely to make. it has been a great treat to me, as it is a continuation of that Cabinet history with the former part
of which I was intimate.
”
On March 2, 1796, Jefferson wrote to Monroe in Paris: “
. . . the resignation or rather removal of R. you will have learnt. his vindication bears hard on the executive in the opinions
of this quarter, and tho’ it clears him in their judgment of the charge of bribery, it does not give them high ideas of his
wisdom or steadiness . . .
”
Edmund Randolph, 1753-1813, succeeded Jefferson as Secretary of State and resigned on being accused in captured letters of Joseph Fauchet,
the French minister, of having asked for money from France to influence the administration against Great Britain.
William Branch Giles, 1762-1830, Virginia statesman, was a friend and supporter of Jefferson.
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6.
The eyes opened or the Carolinians convinced as to the treaty with G. Brit.
[SMITH,
William Loughton.]
The Eyes opened, or the Carolinians convinced, by an honourable and eloquent Representative in the Congress of the United
States, in the following well received and candid examination of the objections to his Excellency Governor Jay’s late treaty
with Great-Britain; and which has been ratified by President Washington, at the city of Philadelphia.
New-York: printed for, and sold by
J. Rivington,
1795.
8vo. 28 leaves: [ ]
1, A-E
4, F
3, [ ]
4, the last a blank. The title as above is followed by a title reading:
A Candid examination of the objections to the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and Great-Britain,
as stated in the report of the committee appointed by the citizens of the United States, in Charleston, South-Carolina. By
a Citizen of South-Carolina . . . Addressed to the Citizens of South-Carolina.
Charleston: printed,
New-York: re-printed for
James Rivington, No. 156 Pearl-street.
1795.
This is the original title, and was printed with the first
part of the pamphlet ending on F
2, page 43. On the ratification of the treaty on August 15, 1795, the
new title and the Postscript were added, the half-title for the
Postscript
forming a part of sheet F.
Sabin 84819.
Evans 29535.
On the title-page Jefferson has written:
by Cobbett, alias Peter Porcupine, and has deleted it with ink. A note in the lower margin signed
S draws attention to this fact.
William Loughton Smith, 1758-1812, congressman from South Carolina and political pamphleteer. For a note on his authorship of this pamphlet see
Sabin, and for another pamphlet by the same author see no. 3174.
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7.
Gallatin’s speech on the elections in the Western counties of Pensylvã.
GALLATIN,
Abraham Albert Alphonse.
The Speech of Albert Gallatin, a Representative from the County of Fayette, in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, on
the important question touching the validity of the elections held in the four Western Counties of the State, on the 14th
day of October, 1794. With notes and an appendix, containing sundry documents relative to the Western Insurrection.
Philadelphia: printed by
William W. Woodward, Franklin’s Head, (New Sign) south side Chesnut Street,
1795.
