J. 333
Local politics.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 100. no. 304, Local Politics, 1802-5, 8vo 2 v.
i. Thirteen pamphlets bound together for Jefferson in one volume 8vo., half calf, by John March, in August 1805 (cost 62½
cents); with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The pamphlets numbered serially in ink on the title-pages.
JA36 .P8 Vol. 103
The contents of the volume are listed by Jefferson on the fly-leaf:
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Lysander’s Annals of the Corporation of N. York.
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Mercer’s Letter on the Ten pound court
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Observations on the Militia of N. York
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Cheetham’s Remarks on the Merchants bank
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Difference on the powers of Gov
r. & Council of N. York
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Influence of Bank-directors in Maryland.
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Washington Phoenix fire-company.
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D
r. Thornton v. Latrobe.
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Memorial of the city of Washington
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Woodward on the gov(
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t of Columbia
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Gov
r.
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Monroe’s Letter to the Virginia assembly
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Report of Committee on the same.
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Worthington’s Communication to the N. Western territory.
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Address of the Cons(
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nal republican of Philadelphia.
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It will be noticed that Jefferson made an error in no. 5, where
N. York should have read
Maryland.
The last named tract is no longer in the volume.
Lysander’s Annals of the Corporation of N. York.
1. [CHEETHAM,
James.]
Annals of the Corporation, relative to the Late Contested Elections; with Strictures upon the Conduct of the Majority. In
Seven Numbers. By Lysander . . .
New-York: Printed by
Denniston and Cheetham,
1802.
First Edition. 46 leaves, the last a blank.
On the title-page, in the handwriting of Cheetham, is written:
Denniston & Cheetham.
David Denniston
and
James Cheetham, both journalists and the former a cousin of De Witt Clinton, had entered into partnership in 1801.
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Mercer’s Letter on the Ten pound court.
2. [CHEETHAM,
James.]
A Letter concerning The Ten Pound Court, in the City of New-York, addressed to the State Legislature. By Mercer.
New-York: Printed for
Denniston and Cheetham,
1803.
First Edition. 8vo. 20 leaves, the last a blank. Signed and dated at the end: Mercer. City of New-York, March 15th, 1803.
By James Cheetham, who has written on the title-page:
From James Cheetham to His Excellency Thomas Jefferson President of the United States.
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Observations on the Militia of N. York.
3.
Brief Observations on the Militia, respectfully addressed to the Legislature, and Commander in Chief. By an Officer of the
Brigade of New-York.
New-York,
1804.
First Edition. 8vo. 10 leaves, the last a blank.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Sabin.
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Cheetham’s Remarks on the Merchants bank.
4. CHEETHAM,
James.
Remarks on the “Merchants’ Bank,” respectfully submitted to the Legislature of the State of New-York. By James Cheetham.
New-York: Printed for the Author.
Southwick & Hardcastle, Printers.
1804.
First Edition. 18 leaves, the last a blank. Signed at the end J. C. and dated New-York, February 10, 1804.
Purchased by Jefferson from
Cheetham on February 13, 1804, price
.25 (paid for in August, 1805).
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Difference on the powers of Gov
r. & Council of N. York.
5. [HANSON,
Alexander Contee.]
Publications relative to the Difference of Opinion between the Governor and the Council on their Respective Powers.
Annapolis: Printed by
Frederick Green, Printer to the State,
1803.
First Edition. 8vo. 72 leaves, the last a blank; the Advertisement To the Reader is dated April 14, 1803, and signed
A Civil Officer, of Maryland.
On the title-page is written in ink:
President of the United States.
Alexander Contee Hanson, 1749-1806, Maryland jurist, judge, and Chancellor of Maryland, was for a time assistant secretary to George Washington.
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Influence of Bank-directors in Maryland.
6.
Four Letters to the People, on the Undue Influence of Bank Directors, in the Political Affairs of the State of Maryland. As
published in the American. Revised and Corrected, with Additions.
Baltimore: Printed at the request of a number of Citizens.
1804.
First Edition. 6 leaves. The letters are signed
Justice.
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Washington Phoenix fire-company.
7.
Constitution and Bye-laws of the Washington Phœnix Fire Company. Washington: Printed by
Samuel H. Smith,
1804.
First Edition. 6 leaves, signed
John Gardiner, Sec’ry.
Sabin 101945.
Bryan, page 148.
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D
r. Thornton v. Latrobe.
8. [THORNTON,
William.]
To the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. [
Washington City,
1805.]
8vo. 6 leaves, signed and dated at the end: W. Thornton. City of Washington, Jan. 1, 1805; caption title, no title-page.
This was one of the pamphlets caused by Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s proposed changes in Dr. Thornton’s designs for the Capitol.
On February 28, 1804, Jefferson wrote to Latrobe, whom in 1803 he had appointed surveyor of public buildings, a long letter
on the plans for the Capitol, beginning: “
I am sorry the explanations attempted between D
r. Thornton & yourself on the manner of finishing the chamber of the house of representatives have not succeded . . .
”
William Thornton, 1759-1828, architect and public official, was a native of the Virgin Islands. He studied in England and Paris and came to
the United States in 1787 where he soon became associated with John Fitch (q.v.) in his experiments with steamboats. Thornton
is best known for his architectural work in the Capitol. Jefferson had considerable correspondence both with Thornton and
Latrobe, and many of the Thornton papers are now in the Library of Congress.
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Memorial of the city of Washington.
9.
Memorial on behalf of the Citizens resident and concerned in the City of Washington. Agreed to at a Meeting held on the 2d
day of February, 1803, in said City. Addressed to both Houses of Congress.
Washington City: Printed by
William Duane & Son,
1803.
8vo. 4 leaves, one folded table. Signed at the end:
W. M. Duncanson, Chairman.
Sabin 101943.
Not in Bryan.
The intention of this meeting is . . . to shew that funds were provided adequate to every demand which the erection of a new
city, in splendor and beauty, without any draughts upon the national treasury, and wholly from the means voluntarily granted
by the proprietors of the soil, upon the express condition of their application to the ends proposed, and to those ends alone
. . .
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Woodward on the gov
(
~m
)t of Columbia.
10. WOODWARD,
Augustus Brevoort.
Considerations on the Government of the Territory of Columbia. By Augustus B. Woodward. Number VIII. Washington: Printed for the author.
January.
m.dccc.iii
. [1803.]
8vo. 13 leaves, dated at the end from Washington, January 31, 1803. Erratum at foot of last page.
Sabin 105151.
Bryan, page 209.
For the other pamphlets in this series by Woodward [Epaminondas] see the Index.
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[Gov
r.
] Monroe’s Letter to the Virginia assembly.
11. [MONROE,
James.]
The Governor’s Letter, Of the 6th of December, 1802, to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, of Virginia. [
Richmond: Printed by
Meriwether Jones, printer to the public,
1802.]
Sm. 8vo. 12 leaves; signed at the end: James Monroe.
Not in Sabin.
Swem 8073 (copy not seen).
Cronin and Wise, no. 13.
Governor Monroe’s annual message.
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Report of Committee on the same.
12.
A Report Of the Committee appointed to examine into the Executive Expenditures. Also the Governor’s Letter Of the 28th January,
to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, respecting said Expenditures, and the Resolutions of the House on the same.
[
Richmond: Printed by
Meriwether Jones,
February 1, 1802.]
Sm. 8vo. 8 leaves.
Swem 8050 (no copy seen.).
Not in Cronin and Wise.
Five hundred copies were printed of this Report.
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Worthington’s Communication to the N. Western territory.
13. WORTHINGTON,
Thomas.
Communication, to Those Citizens of the North-Western Territory, opposed to an Alteration of the Boundaries of the States,
as established by Congress, and who are Favourable to the Formation of a Constitution and State Government within the Eastern
State, as Originally Established. By Thomas Worthington.
Chillicothe: Printed by
N. Willis,
1802.
8vo. 7 leaves only (should be 8), lacks the last leaf. Worthington’s Communication is dated from Chillicothe, July 5, 1802, and is followed by
An Act To enable the people of the Eastern Division of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio, to form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for
other purposes
.
Sabin 105504.
Thomson 1264.
American Imprints Inventory 29.
Sent to Jefferson by Worthington, who wrote from Washington on December 22, 1802: “I have the honour to enclose to you a copy of the constitution of the state of Ohio together with a communication from the
convention of that state . . .”
Thomas Worthington, 1773-1827, Governor of Ohio, was one of the leaders of the “Chillicothe Junto” which accomplished the triumph of Jeffersonism
in Ohio and the admission of that state to the Union. Among other activities he was responsible for founding the State Library
of Ohio.
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Address of the Cons
(
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)nal republican of Philadelphia.
14. [DALLAS,
Alexander James.]
The Address of the Society of Constitutional Republicans, established in the City and County of Philadelphia, to the Republicans
of Pennsylvania. Unanimously Approved and Adopted At a general meeting of the Society in the City of Philadelphia, on Monday,
the 10th of June, 1805.
Philadelphia: Printed by
William M’Corkle, At the office of the Freeman’s Journal,
1805.
F153 .C77
This pamphlet is called for on Jefferson’s list of contents as above, but is no longer bound in this volume.
The Duane copy in the Library of Congress has the name of the author,
By A. J. Dallas, Esq, written in ink on the title-page by a contemporary hand.
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Local politics
[volume 2
].
ii. 1849 Catalogue, page 623. no. 593, Pamphlets, American--On Miscellaneous Subjects, by Messrs. Tarascon, jun., and J. Berthoud
& Co., B. S. Barton, B. H. Latrobe; also, Statement of the Claims of the Rhode Island Brigade; Political Truth, by Virginius;
Examination of the Memorial of the Owners and Underwriters of the American Ship the New Jersey; Impartial Enquiry into certain
Parts of the Conduct of Gov. Lewis, of New-York, by Politicus; On the Public Buildings of the United States at Washington,
&c., &c., 8vo; New-York, Richmond, Louisville, Philadelphia, Washington, 1805-’7.
A collection of pamphlets bound together originally in one volume 8vo, since separated, rebound separately and reclassified.
This was apparently done before 1864 as the pamphlets are not assigned to any pamphlet volume in the Library of Congress catalogue
of that year. Some of the tracts have serial numbers in ink on the title-pages in the manner of Jefferson’s pamphlet volumes
and are doubtless from his library. There are gaps in the numbering, so that if these pamphlets are part of Jefferson’s original
volume, the set is still incomplete.
?
J.
1.
A Statement of the Claim of the Rhode-Island Brigade, commanded By Cols. Crary, Topham, and Elliot. For the Depreciation of
their Pay during the late War with Great-Britain, as settled and adjusted by the Legislature of the State of Rhode-Island
at their October Sessions, 1785.
Boston: From
J. Bumstead’s Printing-Office,
1798.
E263 .R4 R4
8 leaves.
Sabin 90726.
Evans 34455.
This copy is rebound in a half binding and has the number 1 in ink on the title-page; it is probably from Jefferson’s library. The imprint on the title-page has been blacked out with ink.
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?
J. 2. TARASCON,
Louis Anastasius,
and BERTHOUD,
James.
An Address to the Citizens of Philadelphia, on the Great Advantages which arise from the Trade of the Western Country to the
State of Pennsylvania at Large, and to the City of Philadelphia in Particular. On the danger of loosing those advantages,
and on the means of saving them. By Messrs. Tarascon Junr. James Berthoud and Co.
Philadelphia: Printed for the Addressers,
1806.
HE394 .O4 T2
First Edition. 7 leaves.
Sabin 94381.
Not in Thomson.
This copy is in a half binding, and has part of a serial number in ink on the title-page (the upper part cut away), showing that it was once part of a pamphlet volume, and is probably Jefferson’s copy.
Louis Anastasius Tarascon, Junr. was born in 1759. Tarascon Junr., James Berthoud and Co. was a firm of merchants in Philadelphia.
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?
J. 3. VIRGINIUS.
Political Truth . . . By Virginius.
Richmond: Printed for the Author, n.d.
HV6715 .V7
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.
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?
J. 4. [RANDOLPH,
John?]
Letters of Decius, To the Members of the Legislature of the Indiana Territory, to B. Park, Delegate to Congress for Indiana, and to William
Henry Harrison, Governor; together with Charges against the Governor, addressed to The Hon. James Maddison, Secretary of State,
for the United States.
Louisville: Printed for the Author,
December 10th, 1805.
F526 .D29
Sm. 8vo. 23 leaves: [ ]
1, [ ]
4, C-F
4, [ ]
2, the first three sheets (after the title-page) printed on blue paper.
Sabin 19148.
McMurtrie 220 (this copy only).
Not in Jillson.
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
(
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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
(
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)
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 . . .
”
Decius was the name used by John Randolph in a series of papers in the
Richmond Examiner
.
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J.
9. BARTON,
Benjamin Smith.
Remarks on the Speech attributed, by Mr. Jefferson, to an Indian Chief, of the Name of Logan. By Professor Barton, of Philadelphia . . . Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
Philadelphia,
1806.]
E99 .M64 L8
First Edition. 12 leaves.
Sabin 3823.
Johnston, page 34.
Separated from a volume of pamphlets and rebound in a half binding. Numbered 9 in ink on the title-page. On the fly-leaf at the end is written in pencil:
When finished to be sent to the President.
On October 7, 1806, Barton wrote from Philadelphia to Jefferson: “I take the liberty of transmitting to you a copy of the first 24 pages of my “Remarks on the speech of Logan.” The remaining
sheets shall be forwarded to you, in a few days. The work in which this little paper is to appear, is not yet
published . . .”
Jefferson replied to Barton from Washington on December 21: “
The period preceding & during the session of Congress is so occupied by an accumulation of business that it has not been in
my power to acknolege earlier the reciept of some sheets of your publication on the authenticity of Logan’s speech. I certainly
do not know myself that it is authentic; that is, I did not hear Logan deliver it, but I had it from him who received it from
Logan & translated it. I think you will be puzzled to get over his testimony, as well as the general mass of evidence in it’s
favor. that a French abbé not satisfied with the arrangement of the thoughts, should have given them his own arrangement,
& omitted some parts, no more proves to me that Logan never made the speech, than the version of the
Notes on Virginia by another French abbe, wherein he has changed the whole order of the work, omitted much, makes many passages the reverse
of the original, proves to me or to the world that no such work as the Notes on Virginia was ever composed. however it is
well to question all things with freedom; because errors, if they exist, should be corrected, & truths established . . .
”
In the Preface, Barton states:
The greater part of the following pages forms an article in the
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal
,
Volume II.,
Part II. I have printed a few copies in a detached
form,
to gratify the curiosity of some of my friends . . .
Not long after Mr. Jefferson had favoured the public with the Appendix
to his Notes,
I was surprised to find,
in the Travels
of the Abbé Robin,
which I had carelessly perused many years before,
the speech of Lonan. My surprise was by no means of the agreeable kind . . . When I showed the speech of Lonan to some of
my friends*
,
they advised me not to publish it. I consented to suspend
the publication: but I could not consent to conceal, for ever,
my suspicions,
that Logan had never transmitted to the Governor of Virginia a speech such as that which Mr. Jefferson has published in the
Notes;
my suspicions,
that the family of the Indian chief had not
been murdered by Cresap
. The result of my inquiries,
so far as I have found it convenient (
engaged as I am in various,
and more important,
pursuits)
to extend them,
is now before the public . . .
*
To Mr. Jefferson I have never shown,
or mentioned,
either the speech of Lonan,
or the work of Robin. I think it my duty to say this.
For a biographical note on Benjamin Smith Barton, see no. 681.
Abbé Claude C. Robin, born in 1750, travelled to America in 1781 as priest of the French auxiliary corps, under the orders of the Comte de Rochambeau. In the following year he published his Nouveau Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, en l'année 1781; et Campagne de l'Année de M. le Comte de Rochambeau. . . In the following year Robert Bell published a translation into English by Philip Freneau with the title: New Travels through North-America: In a Series of Letters; Exhibiting, the History of the Victorious Campaign of the Allied Armies, under his Excellency George Washington; and the Count de Rochambeau, in the Year 1781 . . . Translated from the original of the abbé Robin; one of the Chaplains of the French Army in America. . . Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street. M,DCC,LXXXIII. Price Two Thirds of a Dollar. The passage referred to by Barton occurs as a footnote on page 57. In reference to the cruelty of the Spaniards, abbé Robin writes:
“An Indian speech that was given me by a professor at Williamsburg, a translation of which is subjoined, is a proof of this. It discovers at the same time, the bold and masculine energy with which these savages are taught by nature to express themselves.
“Speech of the Savage Lonan, in a General Assembly, as it was sent to the Governor of Virginia; anno 1754.
“Lonan will no longer oppose making the proposed peace with the white man-- you are sensible that he never knew what fear is-- that he never turned his back in the day of battle-- no one has more love for the white man than I have. The war we have had with them, has been long, and bloody on both sides-- rivers have ran on all parts, and yet no good has resulted therefrom to any-- I once more repeat it-- let us be at peace with these men; I will forget our injuries, the interest of my country demands it-- I will forget-- that Major Rogers cruelly and inhumanly murdered, in their canoes, my wife, my children, my father, my mother, and all my kindred.-- This roused me to deeds of vengeance!-- I was cruel in despight of myself-- I will die content if my country is once more at peace; but when Lonan shall be no more, who, alas, will drop a tear to the memory of Lonan?”
The speech of Logan as quoted by Jefferson, who challenges “the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent, to produce a single passage superior” reads:
“I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan’s cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he cloathed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin and advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said ‘Logan is the friend of white men.’ I had even thought to have lived with you, bur for the injuries of one man, Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have fought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan?-- Not one.”
Major Rogers, mentioned in “Lonan’s” speech, was Robert Rogers, q.v. no. 4010.
For Colonel Cresap, see the Appendix to the Notes on Virginia, no. 3225, 4051.
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J.
10.
Examination of the Memorial of the Owners and Underwriters of the American Ship the New Jersey, and of the Documents accompanying
it, as presented to The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,
