First Edition. 8vo. 33 leaves.
Sabin 26395.
Evans 28722.
Other pamphlets by Gallatin appear in this catalogue.
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8.
Callendar’s history of the nature & consequences of Excise laws.
[CALLENDER,
James Thomson.]
A Short History of the nature and consequences of excise laws; including some account of the recent interruption to the manufactories
of snuff and refined sugar . . .
Philadelphia: printed for the booksellers,
December 7, 1795.
First Edition. 8vo. 58 leaves.
Sabin 10071.
Evans 28383.
Arents 1121.
On the title-page Jefferson has written:
by Callendar.
For a note on Callender and his relations with Jefferson see the next following tract.
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9.
Callendar’s Political progress of Britain. part 2
d.
[CALLENDER,
James Thomson.]
The Political Progress of Britain: or, an Impartial History of abuses in the Government of the British Empire, in Europe,
Asia, and America. From the Revolution, in 1688, to the present time: The whole tending to prove the ruinous consequences
of the popular system of Taxation, War, and Conquest . . . Part second.
Philadelphia: printed for
Richard Folwell, and sold in
New-York by
James Rivington,
1795. [Price
three shillings.]
First Edition. 8vo. 48 leaves.
Sabin 10066.
Evans 28381.
On the title is written the name of the author (not by Jefferson).
Jefferson had another copy of this pamphlet, see no. 3519.
James Thomson Callender, 1758-1803, was born in Scotland; in 1793 he fled to the United States to escape prosecution for his
Political Progress of Britain, Part I, first published anonymously in London in the autumn of 1792. On July 15, 1802, Jefferson wrote from Washington a
letter to James Monroe in explanation of his dealings with Callender, at that time in jail (owing to the Alien and Sedition
Act), and mentioned the
Political Progress, Part I (not in Jefferson’s library sold to Congress), and this pamphlet: “
. . . When the Political progress of Britain first appeared in this country, it was in a periodical publication called the
bee, where I saw it. I was speaking of it in terms of strong approbation to a friend in Philadelphia, when he asked me if
I knew that the author was then in the city, a fugitive from prosecution on account of that work, and in want of employ for
his subsistence. this was the first of my learning that Callendar was author of the work. I considered him as a man of science
fled from persecution, & assured my friend of my readiness to do whatever could serve him. it was long after this before I
saw him: probably not till 1798. he had in the meantime written a 2
d. part of the Political progress much inferior to the first, and his history of the US . . . his first writings here had fallen
far short of his original Political progress, and the scurrilities of his subsequent ones began evidently to do mischief.
as to myself no man wished more to see his pen stopped; but I considered him still as a proper object of benevolence . . .
”
Again, in an explanatory letter to Abigail Adams, written from Washington on July 22, 1804, Jefferson wrote: “
Your favor of the 1
st. inst. was duly recieved, and I would not again have intruded on you but to rectify certain facts which seem not to have
been presented to you under their true aspect. my charities to Callendar are considered as rewards for his calumnies. as early,
I think, as 1796, I was told in Philadelphia that Callendar, the author of the Political progress of Britain, was in that
city, a fugitive from persecution for having
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