Another copy of no. 3248 above.

This copy is perfect with 20 leaves, signed at the end “Fiat Justitia.”

Rebound in a half binding, separated from a volume of pamphlets and numbered 3 on the title-page in ink; probably from Jefferson’s library.

Separated from a volume of pamphlets and rebound in a half binding; numbered 4 in ink on the title-page. Probably Jefferson’s copy.

Two references occur to Jefferson by name. On page 15 in the Congratulatory Address to the Hon. B. Park Esq. Delegate to Congress from the Indiana Territory dated October 10th, 1805, is the passage: Did you not adopt the conduct of the government of which you are the diminutive representative? Did you not think of aristocracy and federalism? Of the sedition law &c. &c.? Did not a thousand chimeras of this kind agitate your mind? And did you not blame in your heart the mild administration of Mr. Jefferson?--Yes certainly; and so would any other little sycophant in the like dilemma . . .

On page 26 in a letter to His Excellency William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory, dated October 15th, 1805: No sooner was Mr. Jefferson elected to the presidency, than you began to apprehend danger. Your conduct was then marked with the most consumate duplicity; which has been a prominent trait in your political character ever since . . .

This pamphlet may have been sent to Jefferson by William A. Burwell, who wrote to him from Liberty, August 7, 1806, with an enclosure in the letter.

To this Jefferson replied from Monticello on September 17: “ Yours of Aug. 7. from Liberty never got to my hands till the 9 ^th. inst. about the same time I recieved the Enquirer in which Decius was so judiciously answered. the writer of that paper observed that the matter of Decius consisted 1 ^st. of facts. 2 ^dly. of inferences from these facts: that he was not well enough informed to affirm or deny his facts, & he therefore examines his inferences, and in a very masterly manner shews that even were his facts true, the reasonable inferences from them are very different from those drawn by Decius. but his facts are far from truth and should be corrected. it happened that m ( ^~ r) Madison & Genl. Dearborne were here when I recieved your letter. I therefore with them took up Decius & read him deliberately; & our memories aided one another in correcting his bold & unauthorised assertions. I shall note the most material of these in the order of the paper. 1. it is grossly false that our ministers as is said in a note had proposed to surrender our claims to compensation for Spanish spoliations, or even for French. their instructions were to make no treaty in which Spanish spoliations were not provided for; and altho they were permitted to be silent as to French spoliations carried into Spanish ports, they were not expressly to abandon even them. 2. it is not true that our ministers, in agreeing to establish the Colorado as our Western boundary had been obliged to exceed the authority of their instructions. altho’ we considered our title good as far as the Rio Bravo, yet in proportion to what they could obtain East of the Miss ( ^~i ) pi, they were to relinquish to the Westward; & successive sacrifices were marked out, of which even the Colorado was not the last. 3. it is not true that the Louisiana treaty was antedated lest Great Britain should consider our supplying her enemies with money as conversations during the session which confirmed the Louisiana treaty. no secret was made of them. the 4 ^th. 5 ^th. & 6 ^th. require no proofs but what are public. the 7 ^th. may be affirmed in the assumed character of a member, without any danger of it’s being denied.

" These, my dear Sir, are the principal facts worth correction. make any use of them you think best, without letting your source of information be known . . . ”