First Edition. 31 leaves; the Advertisement at the beginning dated June 30, 1800.
John Ward Fenno was the son of John Fenno whose
Gazette
[q.v.] he continued to publish after the death of his father in September 1798 until 1800, when he sold the paper.
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8.
French originals of all the documents, translations of which accompanied the Message of the President of the United States, of the
18th January, 1799, relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic.
Philadelphia: printed by
Charles Cist,
m,dcc,xcix
. [1799.]
E323 .F76
8vo. 30 leaves and an errata slip at the end.
Contains a number of letters from Talleyrand to Elbridge Gerry with some of the replies of the latter, and other matters.
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J.
5. 1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 280, Do. [Political Pamphlets, American,] 1800, 2 v 8vo.
This 8vo. volume contained originally 21 tracts bound together in half calf (front cover now gone). No. 2 and 10 have been
removed, and have disappeared from the Library. The tracts are numbered serially on the first pages. The titles of the missing
tracts have been obtained from the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1864.
JA36 .P8 vol. 100
The 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue called for 2 volumes; a note in the contemporary working copy states that the 1st volume
is missing.
A number of these pamphlets are concerned with the 1800 election.
1. COBBETT,
William.
[
The Rush-Light. 15th March, 1800. Being the third number of Volume I.
Philadelphia,
1800.]
24 leaves, sig. Q-X
4, pages [113]-[160] with a leaf at the end headed
Notifications to the Publick.
The number 1 in ink on the first page; initialled by Jefferson at sig[.] T.
This number contains
A Defence of the Publications on which the action of Rush was grounded, including a summary of the charges against the defendant:
| 1. With calling Doctor Rush a
vain boaster.
|
| 2. With calling him a
quack.
|
| 3. With calling him
Sangrado.
|
| 4. With saying that he
slew his patients.
|
Jefferson is introduced into the argument. On page 145:
Permit me to put a case to you, Gentlemen. Suppose Jefferson were to propose to you a new alliance with France: should you
listen to it with the same patience as you would to a similar proposition from Mr. Adams? And would you not be justified in
declaring, that you believed you should not have said so much about it, if Jefferson had not been the proposer? Should you
not, if this your declaration were brought forward as a proof of your malice against Jefferson, spurn at the promoters of
the charge and the wretched spies they had employed? Were you free men, nay, were you vassals, were you slaves, were you any
thing but Philadelphians, you certainly would . . .
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2. COBBETT,
William.
[
The Republican Rush-Light. By William Cobbet. No. VII. Being the first number of Volume II.] n.p., n.d. [?
London,
1800.]
E321 .C68
8vo. 24 leaves, caption title.
Several references to Jefferson occur. On page 13:
They have told us, and too many Americans have believed it, That in the event of the election of Mr. Jefferson, we should
have a war with England. But I will undertake not only to shew that we shall have no war with England, but also, that America
has nothing to fear, under a wise administration, from any foreign nation whatever.
On page 46:
They have been told; that, under the administration of Jefferson,
