“ this, where there is no court to dazzle men’s eyes, maxims as plain as that 2 and 2 make 4 should not be understood, and
acted upon . . .”
On April 10, 1801, Priestley wrote to Jefferson: “. . . Your resentment of the treatment I have met with in this country is truly generous, but I must have been but little
impressed with the principles of the religion you so justly commend, if they had not enabled me to bear much more than I have
yet suffered. Do not suppose that, after the much worse treatment to which I was for many years exposed in England (of which
the pamphlet I take the liberty to inclose will give you some idea) I was much affected by this. My
Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland were not occasioned by any such thing, tho it served me as a pretence for writing them, but the threatenings of M
r. Pickering, whose purpose to send me out of the country M
r. Adams (as I conclude from a circuitous attempt that he made to prevent it) would not, in the circumstances in which he then
was, have been able directly to oppose. My publication was of service to me in that and other respects, and I hope, in some
measure, to the common cause . . .”
For Cooper’s
Political Arithmetic
see no. 2804 and for other works by Priestley see the Index.
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5. COOPER,
Thomas.
Political Essays, originally inserted in the Northumberland Gazette, with additions By Thomas Cooper, Esq.
Northumberland: printed by
Andrew Kennedy,
1799.
AC901 .D8 Vol. 77
First Edition. 8vo. 34 leaves including one blank.
Sabin 16614.
Evans 35354.
This tract is included here as being the only one published by Cooper in 1799.
An Account of the trial of Thomas Cooper
was published in 1800, and is in another collection of tracts, see no. 3224.
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6. [OGDEN,
John Cosens.]
A View of the New-England Illuminati: who are indefatigably engaged in destroying the religion and government of the United
States; under a feigned Regard for their safety--and under an impious abuse of true religion.
Philadelphia: printed by
James Carey,
1799. [Copy-right secured.]
F8 .O34
First Edition. 8vo. 10 leaves.
The New England Illuminati was the name given in 1798 to certain New England clergymen who were accustomed to meet from 1790 to 1800 to discuss politics
and in particular the French revolution. The name rose from the fear that the European cult founded by Adam Weisshaupt and
known as the Illuminati had penetrated into the United States. See also the pamphlet by John Wood, no. 3280.
John Cosens Ogden wrote several letters to Jefferson and to John Adams during 1799. On February 7 he wrote to Jefferson from Litchfield, Connecticut, and on February 20 he wrote to Adams (the original in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress) from Litchfield prison.
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7. [FENNO,
John Ward.]
Desultory reflections on the new political aspects of public affairs in the United States of America, since the commencement
of the year 1799 . . .
New-York: printed for the author, by
G. and R. Waite, and published by
J. W. Fenno,
1800.
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